ORAL PRESENTATION.

TOPIC: SOUTH AFRICA.

Here, you have the videos. I don't know what happened when Laura was recording us, but the video is divided in two parts.
This is the first:



And the second:




Presentation:
1. Did you use any resources? Yes, powerpoint and videos from youtube.
2. Were the resources relevant and attractive? Yes.

Body language and eye contact:
3. Did you look at your audience most of the time? Not all the time, but I tried to do it.
4. Did you read from your notes? A little.
5. Did you do any gestures/movement to hold the attention of you audience? A little.

Structure:
6. Did you organize your ideas in order of importance? Yes.
7. Did you use discourse makers to make your ideas more clear? Yes.

Content:
8. Did you introduce interesting, NEW information to your audience? Yes.
9. Did you look up information/facts/ideas in the Internet/books? Yes.
10. Was your information more superficial or more detailed and original? A little of everything, but generally was detailed.

Language:
11. Did you use check your grammar? Yes.
12. Did you use rich vocabulary looking up the dictionary? Yes.
13. Did you use sentence linkers? A little.
14. Did you use fillers? A little.

Pronunciation & Intonation:
15. Did you know how to pronunce all you words?
Did you check the pronunciation with a dictionary, a classmate or the teacher? Yes, all of them.
16. Did you change your tone of voice or use a monotone tone all the time? The same tone all the time.
Did you speed in a fluid continuum or with breaks and interruptions? With breaks and interruptions. I was nervious a lot.

Self-Evaluation:
I think that this second oral presentation was worst than the firtst, I don't know why, because I prepared it like, or more, than the firts.


Write down a LITERAL TRNASCRIPTION of your presentation.

Introduction; Pau.

History; Roger.

ECONOMY; Well, I will speak about the economy of South Africa that it's the most bigger in Africa, and plays an important paper in the developement of the region. Well, the south african economy posses a great volum of the national capital public and private. The monetary system of South Africa it's the Rand, that it's divisible in 100 cents, whichs is used also in other countries of the Montetary Common area of South Africa.
Johannesburg market is one of the biggest markets of Africa and it's situated in South Africa.
Another important secotr of south africa its the mining industry especially extraction of coal, minerals and precious metals, like diamonds, gold and platinum
Well, South Africa is one of the countries with major reserves of diversity of richness, it has got a lot of mining. South Africa is the most industrial powerful and diversified of the whole African region.
An important point of South Africa is that it has a lot of natural parks, so a lot of people of around the world come to South Africa for see the nature.

Politics; Roger.

Festivals; Pau.

LANGUAGES; Well, now, I will speak about the languages that are speaked in South Africa. As you can see on the presentation of Power Point, there is a list of the languages wrote with a colour that are painted in the map. There are eleven official languages around the country and the most spoken are Zulu, in a 23'8%, Xhosa, whith a 17'6% and Afrikaans with a 13'3%.
It's the second country below India that have the most number of official languages.
Also, the government recognizes eigh no official languages, that are Fangalo, Khoe, Lobedu, Namai, Northern, Ndebele's, Phuti and San.
In South Africa there are white people that are Europeans and they speak Portuguese, German and Greek, and also there are Indian and Asian people that speak asian languages, like Telugu, Hindi, Gujarati and Tamil.

Geography; Roger.

Food and Drink; Pau.

MUSIC; The South African music scene has continued to flouris in the 2000s. One of the most popular choral group of South Africa is Ladysmith Black Mambazo, and it's this photo, they are the choral group. Their las single is Ilembe.
The music scene in South Africa is focused around four major areas, Johannesburg, Cape Town, Durban and Bloemfontein. One of the characteristics of this areas are the strong sense of community which sees artist.
Bloemfontein's music focus is centred predominantly arount the metal and Afrikaans genres.
Well, South Africa has several annual music festivals including, MotherFudd, Oppikoppi and Splashy fen. The music festivals cater to different genres and styles of music.

Sports; Pau.

Check your Language and Structure. Can you correct your mistakes?

Well, about this oral presentation I think that I must correct a lot of things, so I don't know what happened when I went to the before the people who want to listen me, I started to get nervous and I forgot all the things that I must say, so read a little. I hope that the last presentation of this year will be better than this, beucause I think that it was a disaster; for my part, not for Pau and Roger.;)


Now, if you want, you can look our PowerPoint.

I FOUND YOU.

I FOUND YOU - THE FRAY


The embed of this video is desactivated, so if you want to listen the song, you can go here.;)


I found God / He trobat a Déu
On the corner of First and Amistad / A la cantonada de "First and Amistad"
Where the west / On l'oest
Was all but won /Era tot pero va guanyar
All alone / tot sol
Smoking his last cigarette / Fumant el seu últim cigarret
I said, “Where you been?” / Jo vaig dir "On has estat?"
He said, “Ask anything.” / Ell va dir, " Preguntant qualsevol cosa."

Where were you / On t'estaves
When everything was falling apart? / Quan tot estava caient a trossets?
All my days / Tots els meus dies
Were spent by the telephone / Es van gastar per el telèfon
That never rang / Que mai va sonar
And all I needed was a call / Tot el que necessitava era una trucada
It never came / Que mai va arribar
To the corner of First and Amistad / A la cantonada de "First and Amistad"

Lost and insecure / Perdut i insegur
You found me, you found me / Em vas trobar, em vas trobar
Lying on the floor / Tirat en el terra
Surrounded, surrounded / Envoltat, envoltat
Why’d you have to wait? / Perquè has d'esperar?
Where were you, where were you? / On estàs, on estàs?
Just a little late / Nomès una mica tard
You found me, You found me / Tu em vas trobar, tu em vas trobar.

In the end / Al final
Everyone ends up alone / Tothom acaba sol
Losing her / Perdent-la
The only one who’s ever known / La única que coneix
Who I am / Qui sóc
Who I’m not, and who I want to be / Qui no sóc i qui vull ser
No way to know / No hi ha forma de saber-ho
How long she will be next to me / Quant de temps ella estarà al meu costat.

Lost and insecure / Perdut i insegur
You found me, you found me / Em vas trobar, em vas trobar
Lying on the floor / Tirat en el terra
Surrounded, surrounded / Envoltat, envoltat
Why’d you have to wait? / Perquè has d'esperar?
Where were you, where were you? / On estàs, on estàs?
Just a little late / Nomès una mica tard
You found me, You found me / Tu em vas trobar, tu em vas trobar.

Early morning / Al matí aviat
The city breaks / La ciutat es trenca
I’ve been calling / Jo vaig estar trucant
For years and years and years and years / Per anys i anys i anys i anys
And you never left me no messages / I tu mai em vas deixar un missatge
You never sent me no letters / Tu mai m'enviaves cartes
You got some kind of nerve / Tens algun tipus de nervi
Taking all I want / Agafant tot el que jo vull.

Lost and insecure / Perdut i insegur
You found me, you found me / Em vas trobar, em vas trobar
Lying on the floor / Tirat en el terra
Where were you, where were you? / On estàs, on estàs?

Lost and insecure / Perdut i insegur
You found me, you found me / Em vas trobar, em vas trobar
Lying on the floor / Tirat en el terra
Surrounded, surrounded / Envoltat, envoltat
Why’d you have to wait? / Perquè has d'esperar?
Where were you, where were you? / On estàs, on estàs?
Just a little late / Nomès una mica tard
You found me, You found me / Tu em vas trobar, tu em vas trobar.

Why’d you have to wait / Perquè m'has d'esperar
To find me, to find me? / per trobar-me, per trobar-me?

NEW VOCABULARY LEARNED:
falling apart: trossets
lying: estirat (en aquest cas)
surrounded: envoltat

WHEN YOU SAY NOTHING AT ALL.

WHEN YOU SAY NOTHING AT ALL - RONAN KEATING.




It's amazing how you / És sorprenent com tu
can speak right to my heart. / pots parlar directe al meu cor.
Without saying a word, /sense dir una paraula,
you can light up the dark / tu pots il·luminar la fosocor
Try as I may / Per molt que ho intenti
I could never explain / no puc trobar-hi una explicació
what I hear when / el que sento quan
you don't say a thing. / tu no dius res.

The smile on your face / El somriure a la teva cara
lets me know that you need me, / em fa saber que tu em necessites,
There's a truth in your eyes / Hi ha una sinceritat en els teus ulls
saying you'll never leave me / dient que tu mai em deixaràs
The touch of your hand / La força de la teva mà
says you'll catch me / diu que m'agafaràs
when ever I fall / sempre que caigui.
You say it best, / Tu dius el millor,
when you say nothing at all / quan no dius res.

All day long I can hear / Durant tot el dia puc sentir
people talking out loud / gent parlant alt.
But when you hold me near, / Però quan tu m'abraçes
you drown out the crowd / no puc sentir la multitud.
Try as they may / Per molt que ho intentin
they can never define / ells mai podrien dir
what's been said between / que s'han estat dien entre
your heart and mine. / el teu cor i el meu.

The smile on your face / El somriure a la teva cara
lets me know that you need me, / em fa saber que tu em necessites,
There's a truth in your eyes / Hi ha una sinceritat en els teus ulls
saying you'll never leave me / dient que tu mai em deixaràs
The touch of your hand / La força de la teva mà
says you'll catch me / diu que m'agafaràs
when ever I fall / sempre que caigui.
You say it best, / Tu dius el millor,
when you say nothing at all / quan no dius res.

The smile on your face / El somriure a la teva cara
lets me know that you need me, / em fa saber que tu em necessites,
There's a truth in your eyes / Hi ha una sinceritat en els teus ulls
saying you'll never leave me / dient que tu mai em deixaràs
The touch of your hand / La força de la teva mà
says you'll catch me / diu que m'agafaràs
when ever I fall / sempre que caigui.
You say it best, / Tu dius el millor,
when you say nothing at all / quan no dius res.

You say it best when you say nothing at all / Dius el millor quan no dius res
You say it best when you say nothing at all. / Dius el millor quan no dius res.


The smile on your face / El somriure a la teva cara
The truth in your eyes / La sinceritat dels teus ulls
The touch of your hand / La força de la teva mà
Let's me know that you need me. / Em diuen que em necessites.


You say it best when you say nothing at all / Dius el millor quan no dius res
You say it best when you say nothing at all. / Dius el millor quan no dius res.


I really like this song, and also it brings me a lot of really good memories, so I hope you like it;).

GLOBAL WARMING.

“On August 28, for the first time in human story, the North Pole became an island. It was the first time that both, the Arctic’s northwest and northeast passages, running along.
Canada and Russia arctic coasts, were both free of ice, allowing ships to circumnavigate the northern icecap. The tipping point was the raced-toss of ice last year, reaching a level not expected until 2050, while a blessing for international shipping.
Cutting the trip from Germany to Japan by 4000 miles, according to one company the trend indicates that predictions of global warming are occurring such sooner than generally expected.”

Catalonia Today, September 2008, Thursday 11, nº 302.




If you want to read my opinion:

This article is about the global warming. About this topic, I think that every minute that pass, the ozone layer is worst, so I think that we must control everything related with this,. For example, sometimes, we took the car for go to the supermarket, when it’s five minutes walking of our home. If we don’t control things like that, the world could finish very bad.
I know that it’s difficult renounce to your comforts for save a little bit the planet, and normally people think: “I do it, but if the other people don’t do the same like me, it’s no point that I do it, so I finish doing it.” Maybe there are a lot of people that have this think, so I think that if all of us put a little of our part, we can do something important, and we can save a little bit the planet.


NEW VOCABULARY LEARNED:
Renounce: renunciar.
Comforts: comoditats.
No point: inútil.

HITACHI SUPER EXPRESS.

Click here to see the video.

In Britain, there is a project that will be able to use in 2013. This project consists in build an electric quickly train. The name of the train will be Hitachi Super Express. The train will go to London to Edinburgh in twelve minutes, so the journeys will be faster. Also, this new projects will create a lot of places for job.
This project will use a very big technology. The train will go to 125 miles for hour, and it will have longer carriages.
Now, there is a lot of people working with this project. It’s a difficult project, but it will be very safe.
The estimate price is 7500000 pounds.

NEW VOCABULARY LEARNED:
carriages: vagons.

VALENTINE'S DAY

I can't put the video here, but if you want to see it, click here.

The video is about Saint Valentine’s Day.

Staffordshire town has been named as one of the least romantic places in Britain. People aren’t romantic, and they don’t give to her partner a present.
There are two couple that celebre the Saint Valentine’s Day on the football pitch, and one of these couples are married twice.
In the shopping centre, there are a lot of shops that sells presents for this day, like chocolate with a heart form.
The most gave present in these day are flowers. The husband gives to his wife a big bunch of flowers. Normally, the flowers are roses, so the florist’s must work a lot on this date.

NEW VOCABULARY LEARNED:
least: menys.
bunch: ram (de flors).

DESCRIPTION OF A PLACE.

P.S: I'm sorry for the bad quality of the sound. I don't know what happens with my microphone.

You can read the description here:

"This photo is taken in “Les Roques Del Tit”, in Ventalló. I went to this place in November 2008.
Well, on top of the photo, on the left, there are reeds with green leaves. Below the reeds, there is me. I’m sitting on the floor, to be precise, in a rock. When I was there, if I looked under my feed, I could see the river under me.
The other part of the photo, you can see the river. On the superior part, the river is moving, and you can see the other side of the river, full of little grey rocks and weed.
Slightly below the moved river, you can see a straight line of rocks, which divide the river in moved and calmed. Below the rocks, the river is calm, with a great reflection of the sun.
On the most rightist part of the photo, you can see branches of a tree. Next to me, on the rock, there is more green weed.
I like to go to this place, because I feel relaxed and good.
I think that it’s a little bit difficult to go to this place, but later to do the effort for arrive here it’s a really good experience.
I think that it’s a good place to go when you are sad and you need stay lonely and think with your things but also I think that it’s a little bit dangerous go alone, because there are a lot of precipices.
I went to this place for first time when I was ten, with the centre in the summer. We went by bicycle, but now, when I went here, I went with all my friends with our motorbikes."

NEW VOCABULARY LEARNED:
Reed: canya.
To be precise: concretament.
Rock: roca.
Weed: mala herba.
Straight: recta
Effort: esforç
Precipices: precipicis.
Centre: casal.

DESCRIPTION OF A FRIEND.

You know him. His name is Pau, and he is sixteen years old, but on Tuesday, he will be seventeen!
I met Pau since I was two years old, so I think that it's a good motive to describe him.
Well, I will start describing Pau physically. About his height you know that Pau it’s very tall! And when I’m walking to his side, I feel really short.
Apart from his height, Pau is very slim.
He has brown eyes, and his mouth and his nose are normal. About his hair, usually he brings a crest like a cock!
I like the way he wear. Usually, he brings a sweater, the trousers fallen with a belt and his white trainers. It’s simple, but I like it.
Well, about his personality, I think that better it can’t be!
Always, when I need something I’m sure that he will be with me, and I checked it.
Sometimes, when you feel bad, you need some fondness, and Pau, doesn’t matter the way that is, will give you all that you need. Sometimes, when I’m alone in home, and I feel bad, I talk with he in messenger, and he start to say silly things, and I finish the moment forgetting all those things that I was worry about. He is a good example of a really good friend. Do not you believe it?
About Pau, he likes play football. He plays in Sant Pere Pescador team, and he is the goalkeeper, but now, he is sent off the team for a days!
He likes a lot listen to music, and his favourite music group is Marea.
When Pau have persons around he that he doesn’t have a lot of confidence, Pau is very shy and quiet.
When weekend comes, Pau it’s happy. Why? He likes a lot going party and go out with his friends. Pau is a person who I spend almost of my free-time with other people, and these moments that I spend with he are unforgettable. There is a little ant? We will laugh about it. I don’t know what type of friendship we have, but I like a lot. Always we are laughing, but when we must serious, we are serious.

NEW VOCABULARY LEARNED:
height: altura.
goalkeeper: porter.
crest: cresta.
cock: gall.
fondness: carinyo, apreci.

DIFFERENCES ABOUT THE BOOK AND THE FILM OF FRANKENSTEIN.

We read the book of Frankenstein in home, and later, in class, we watched the film. We can see that there are a lot of differences between the film and the book.
I didn’t see the film since the beginning, but I asked to my friends and they answered to me what happened at the beginning.
In the book, Victor Frankenstein's mother died in the Victor brother’s labour, but in the film, her mother died ill a time later in Victor’s laboratory.
In the film, Ernest didn’t appear, but appears the mother of Justine, but they didn’t say her name.
In the film, when it’s time for Victor to go to the university, they did a party, but in the book, nothing happened.
In the book, Victor Frankenstein meets Henry since he was young, but in the film, Victor meets Henry at the University.
In the book, Victor did the monster with his teacher, but in the film, the teacher died, and Victor takes his book of notes and Victor used it like a help.
In the book, the laboratory of Victor it’s far from the university, but in the film, the laboratory is in Victor’s bedroom.
In the book, Victor Frankenstein experiment is a secret thing, and in the film, his friend Henry knows that Victor is doing it.
When the monster killed the little brother of Frankenstein, everybody accused Justine, but in the film, there isn’t any trial before hang Justine, and any judge.
The little brother of Frankenstein, when he was murdered, he brings a chain that it was the alliance of Victor and Elisabeth, and it brings the photo of Victor. The monster takes the alliance form the pocket of the little boy and put near of Justine.
In the film, not all the things that the monster does are bad. The monster saved a girl when she was falling in a river.
In the book, Victor Frankenstein’s father died because he was very sad, and in the film, he died murdered of the monster.
In the film, at the moment that the monster is outside the hut of the old blind man, there is a men who go to the hut for charge the rent of the house, and the man was frightened to see the monster and he run and the old man did mustn’t pay the rent.
In the film the monster asks to Frankenstein if he can make a girlfriend for him, and Victor refused his idea because Frankenstein wants his girlfriend with Justine’s body. Later, the monster said to Victor that we will be in his wedding night, and the difference between the book it’s that Victor, in the book accepted to do a girlfriend for the monster and when he was finishing the creature, Victor starts to destroy the body, and the monster said to Victor that he will be in his wedding night.
In the wedding night, on the film, the monster murdered Elisabeth, and later, Victor wants to rebuild Elisabeth and he took the body of Justine and the head of Elisabeth.
When “Elisabeth” started to move, Victor began to say her name and the monster too. Elisabeth doesn’t know that he must do, and we burned herself and the house burned too.
In the film, the creature burned himself near of the death body of her father, Victor Frankenstein in a middle of the ice. The monster wants die with Victor, and in the book, the monster died freeze in the middle of the ice.

NEW VOCABULARY LEARNED:
to be in labour: anar de part
trial: judici
hang: penjar
hut: cabanya
freeze: congelar