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Self-Evaluation

I’m really happy with our oral presentation of the second term. We have prepared it in the same way as the others, but I don’t know why I have enjoyed more this one.
We have talked about our trip to London. We tried to explain what we did during the trip to the people who didn’t come. Our objective consists on summarizing the most important places we visited. First we explained what the trip had consisted of and then we showed a power point with some pictures of these nice holidays.

As I said before, we did the oral in the same way, so we used the dialogue as a tool to catch the attention of the audience.
Moreover, I think that the idea of talking first and then explaining the power point, has improved our presentation.
But, as Lourdes told me at the end of the last term, it’s completely impossible to make a perfect job, so I think that in this oral we could control ourselves better, because in my case, I was really nervous and that make me forget some important information.

To sum up, I want say that I’m proud of our presentation, and I think we have reflected how we have enjoyed this fantastic trip.

Oral presentations

ORIOL OLIVA

He talked about humour in Spanish TV.

Facts I’ve learnt
He talked about different Spanish humour programmes. Such as, APM, Polonia, El hormiguero…
At the end he tells us his opinion about family guy.
Do I have any question?
- Why don’t you talk about Simpsons?

General impressionHe did a funny oral presentation because he talk about lots of different programmes.



CHAINEZ SELLUM AND FIONA MATA

They talked about sitcoms.

Facts I’ve learnt.
Nowadays we can find sitcoms on the television, they are a different kind of humour programmes. The most famous one is “The prince of Bel-Air”, it talks about a poor boy who has to live with his wealthy uncles.

Ideas for my oral presentationthey talked about a topic which a lot of us didn’t know.

Do I have any question?- Where do you learn to talk in English like that?- It’s incredible, but, watching TV.

General impressionthey had done a really good work! I think their English is fantastic, and they had prepared the oral.
MARINA SARQUELLA

She talked about different topics in Pride and Prejudice

Facts I’ve learnt
She talked about the three more important topics in the novel:
-love
-reputation
-Social classes.
She gave us her opinion about these different topics.
General impression
she always does spontaneous presentations, and I like them because she talks fluently.

ADRIA ALFARO


He talked about “The simpsons”
Facts I’ve learnt
Matt Groening was the author of these fantastics cartoons.
He talked about the five main characters (Homer, Lisa, Bart , Marge and Maggie) They have a common characteristic, because all of them have only four fingers.
Do I have any question?- Which is your favourite character?
General impressionI like the topic so the oral too. I think his pronunciation was good.



ARIADNA COMAS
She talked about different literary movements.
Facts I’ve learnt
She talked about two different literary movements. The first one is Neoclacissm and the second was the Romanticism. He gave us lot of information about these movements.
General impressionI think she has studied it too much that’s the reason why she wasn’t fluent enough.


ELISENDA LLADÓ I LAIA SALÓ.
They talked about the relationship between Elizabeth and Mr. Darcy.
Facts I’ve learnt
They talk about the six meetings Elizabeth and Darcy did.They have done a good reflection about the book’s content.

Do I have any question?- In which character are you more reflected?
General impressionI think they did a good oral presentation, I like their orals presentation structure.


MARINA JULIÀ AND NEUS PAGÈS

They talked about different kinds of love.

Facts I’ve learntthey talked about four different kinds of love:
-Arranged marriage: Mr. Collins and Charlotte.-Love at first sight: Bingley and Jane
-hate becomes hard love: Darcy and Elizabeth.-platonic love

General impressiontheir fluency is good, and I like their oral because they weren’t really nervous, especially Neus.


ADRIÀ CARMONA
He talked about different types of humour.
Facts I’ve learnt
He talked about three kinds of humour:

-verbal humour (blue humour, bull, epigram and irony)
-physical humour (theatres, circus…)
-visual humour, he shows us some funny pictures.
General impressionHis oral presentation is my favourite one because he makes me smile.


ALEJANDRO PEÑA

He talked about “Andreu Buenafuente”
Facts I’ve learnt
He said a really funny sentence about Andreu, he said: “ He has no studies and, now, look at him, he is famous!”He also talks about his show; Alejandro thinks that “el follonero” is the best part of his fantastic show. General impression
He was really nervous, but in spite of that, I think he has done it well.

MIRAM FALGÀS AND ANNA GENÍS.
How to be a gentleman like Mr. Darcy in our days?
Facts I’ve learntThey talked about different rules of behaviour of high social class:· Be on time !· We have to open the door!· Close the mouth meanwhile we are eating.
General impressionI love the PowerPoint! Their English is so good, I like they oral too!


BERNARDO SANTOS, IÑAKI FERNANDEZ AND BALDIRI GIRONELLA.

They talked about life in 19th century.
Facts I’ve learntThey talked about different aspects of the life in those times:
-Job
-Technology
-Clothing-Education
-…

At the end, they show us a really violent movie; they say that it was related with humour.
General impressionthey talked about lots of different things, and they hadn’t prepared it enough. I think Bernardo’s pronunciation is amazing!

Self-Evaluation

I want to talk about my first oral presentation of this term. As all of you, I have recorded it, so… when I watched it I noticed that I could do it really better. I was really nervous and I looked many times at the paper. I think that the most important problem was that I didn’t love the topic. It’s true that Claudia and I have chosen it, but I think that we have done it really bad, because we could choose something more interesting or funny. I think that if we were more interested in the topic we would do it really better.

From my point of view, on one hand we spent lot of time writing and preparing this oral presentation, and I think that it is the worst I have done, but on the other hand, I think that I wasn’t static and meanwhile I was talking I started getting more comfortable and I think that when I concluded I was more relaxed and I have done it really better than at the beginning of the presentation.

To finish, I recognize that after comparing the presentation I did on the first term of first Batxillerat, I can see a great improvement.

Oral Prsentation!

Hello everybody, what comes to your mind when you listen this song?


As you know we use to do the orals presentations together, and we normally talk about different topics related with us, but today we are going to talk about different kinds of marriage, so, we have had to do the oral in a different way, overall because we aren’t involved in the topic.

The marriage is the strongest expression of love, sure that some people think that love is one long sweet dream and marriage is the alarm clock… but we don’t think so, always, if you choose the correct person and you if you don’t do it because of money.
In the old societies, unlikely, most of the formal unions of a couple were arranged. Are you thinking about Pride and Prejudice? So, well done, because it is one of the best examples of this kind of marriages.

In all the cultures, the wedding is influenced by family, social and religious aspects.
But all of you know that this is not the most important thing to get a good marriage. The party, from our point of view, is the less important thing in this ambit, so, the most important is the feelings of the boy and girlfriend, and of course, their love. We think like that because we live in a modern country, where love is expressed liberally, but we have not to forget that in some towns of our world arrange marriage continues being the most popular one in their society.
All societies have different ways to prepare young people to their marriage life. Years ago, the family was who teach to the youngest of the house the values of the love and of the couple. During our life, we receive a lot of information from our society about what it is supposed the man and the woman, so you can observe that more or less everybody in the same country, act in a similar way.
This is another important point which is reflected in pride’s and prejudice, because there you can see that in spite of being from a different social class, all of them act in the same way in front of different situations.
By the way, how you know each society celebrate weddings in a different kinds of ceremonies and in our oral presentation we want show you some ones.

INDIAN WEDDINGS

The first one which we want to talk about is the Indian wedding, which we thing that is really interesting and very different from European marriages, you will see: to the diversity of Indian culture, the wedding style vary depending on the state, the region, the religion… while the Christians of India usually follow a more or less Western wedding ceremony, the Indian Hindus, Muslims, follow traditions really different from the west.
We are going to talk about the traditional Hindu wedding, because we think that is nicest:


Before the wedding day, the bride’s parents travel to the groom’s place to formalize the relationship. A really big party is organized by the boyfriend’s family to celebrate this occasion. Typically, only the men relatives are allowed to come to this celebration, female relatives are not present. After this stage, wedding is arranged and the groom and the bride start to prepare all they need for the wedding party.
Wedding ceremony
Varmala/Jaimala: this is the next phase of the ceremony. This stage normally takes place late in the nigh, often starting at midnight and lasting until the early hour’s morning. We think that this is a really nice tradition, we really love night’s weddings.
The main part of the wedding takes place normally in a garden, where there is a reception and a feast, this part is accompanied by the groom arriving with his family and friends in a procession. Meanwhile he is walking, the bride used to wait for him in the ceremony.
Immediately after the groom has arrived, the couple meets and exchange garlands in another ceremony. During this ceremony food is served and the guests present gifts to them.
The more ritualistic part, which involves a priest, is the last one. We are used to do it different because in our weddings the religious part is normally the first one.
After eating, the groom and the bride sit beside the fire and the priest chants, in this moment the groom and the bride exchange their feelings in front of many gods and goddesses.
In the morning, the couple has a final breakfast in the girl’s house; she leaves her parents’ house at the end escorted by the groom. Traditionally this phase is accompanied by the bride’s family tears, and sometimes, they throw white rice.
So, if we compare the Indian wedding with our, we noticed that it’s largest than the Spanish ceremony, and they give lot of importance to the tradition and religion.

On the other hand, we want to talk about the ARABIC WEDDING, particularly the Muslim wedding.
This kind of marriage is strongly linked to the culture and religion, and as you know, most of the marriages in the Arabian world are arranged, because when a man sees a woman and he likes her, he tells his mother about her and his family starts asking about her family and starts working like a detective. The family of the bride takes care of the money and the social status of the groom’s family. So, if the man is rich and he comes from a traditional family, the family of the bride will accept the engagement.
As you can see, it’s like in pride and prejudice because the families, who have a daughter, have to accept the marriage proposal because women can’t work so they can’t earn money, and that’s the reason why they have to try to marriage with rich men. It’s obvious that Muslims live in an old fashioned society.
One of the main characteristic of this fixed weddings, is that the first date takes place in the bride’s house. There, the mothers first meet, and they talk during hours, meanwhile the bride and the groom sit in one place next to them, but where they can’t listen to their mothers speaking. After this first meeting, if both families agree with the wedding, the men of the groom’s family come to the bride’s home; there they meet all the men who are the bride’s relatives. The eldest men of the groom’s side makes a speech asking for the bride’s hand and after that the bride’s father makes another speech saying yes.
Then, they drink and eat to celebrate the engagement.
A few days later, the official ceremony takes place and the bride and the groom become wife and husband. The ceremony is like the proposal party but it is considered more official because it is in front of God.
Then there is the Henna night, where the bride’s female friends join at a house party called Henna, that includes food, drinks, and a lot of dancing and a woman draws Henna on the bride’s and guests’ palms and feet.
In the wedding, the bride and the groom sit in the Kosha that consists in two comfortable seats in front of the guests and where the bride and the groom switch rings. With this ritual, the festivities begin.
Usually there is a belly dancer or a singer- and in modern weddings,sometimes a disc jockey- that entertains the guests, who will dance and sing with the new wed couple and the groom is usually tossed in the air by his friends.
Then the bride and the groom cut the cake. After that the bride throws her flower bouquet behind her back; the female that catches it is lucky, because she will be the next to marry.
Next, the couple open the buffet for the guests, that usually consists on salads, meats, stews, fruits and other Arabian dishes. After that, the wedding party is over. The new wed couple usually stay a night or two at the hotel.


To conclude, we must say that there are lots of different kinds of wedding around the world, but we decided to choose only two because we want to explain them at all, and we haven’t enough time to talk about the others.
We imagine you know other traditional weddings, and in fact, every society has its tradition but nowadays, most of them have a common characteristic because in the modern societies people marry because of love and that’s a great improve between the pride and prejudice times.
Can you imagine that your parents force you to marry someone?
This is one of the worst things can happen to a person, We can imagine it!

Oral presentations

Name and Topic:
Bernardo Santos and Iñaki Fernandez,
Crimes in the United States of America
Facts I have learned:
- In Russia there are lots of crimes.
- Black people kill more people than white ones
Ideas for my presentation:
interesting topic and Bernat’s pronunciation was incredible.
General impression:
Very good.

Name and Topic:Chainez,
The famine
Facts I have learned: - disastrous famine: famine of 1958 in China.
- The food and agriculture organization of USA is WFP
Ideas for my presentation:
good pronunciation and relaxed
General impression:
very good.

Name and topic:
Neus Pagès and Marina Julià,
Diseases .
Facts I have learned:
- Bulimia, cancer, AIDS and anorexia, are really dangerous diseases.
- The story of Maria

Ideas for my oral presentation:
I like the story of Maria.
General Impression:
Good


Name and Topic:Laia Saló i Elisenda Lladó,
Helpless dogs

Facts I have learned:
- Each year nearly to 200.000 animals are abandoned.- The consequences of the abandonment are: traffic accidents, diseases...General impression:
Good.

Name and Topic:
Marina Sarquella,
Natural disasters
Facts I have learn:
lots of different kinds of different disasters such as:
-floods,
-tsunamis,
-mudflows,
-volcanic eruptions.
Ideas for my presentation:
Very good pronunciation and she was calm.
General impression:very good.

Name and Topic:
Adrià Alfaro,
skinheads.

Facts I have learn:
- Skinheads were born in England and Jamaica
- There are a different kinds of skinheads such us: rush, anti-racists…
- Skin girls organize the fights.
General impression:
good.

Name and Topic:
Alejandro Peña and Adrià Carmona,
The waste
Facts I have learned:
- Danger materials who need thousand of years to be discomposed: plastic bags, condoms, batteries, cigarettes...
Ideas for my presentation:
They bring some waste and we classified it.
General impression:
good

Name and Topic:
Baldiri Gironella,
Hooliganism
Facts I have learned:
- "Green Street Hooligans", a really good film witch talks about this amazing topic.
General impression:
good!

Name and Topic:
Oriol Oliva,
Water
Facts I have learned:
- Water is essential for survive
- The earth contains a 97% of salty water
- We are composed by an important per cent of water.
General impression:
Good.

Name and Topic:
Miriam and Anna Genís,
Poverty & patronage
Facts I have learned:
-patronage = apadrinar
-Vicenç Ferrer ONG started 6 years ago
- They are god fathers.
Ideas for my presentation:
I like the idea of the letter, and the topic was amazing.
General impression:
Very good

Name and Topic:
Ariadna Comes,
Animal mistreatness
Facts I have learned:
- Every year thousand of animal are sacrificed to experimental intentions
- There is a web who defend the animal rights: http://www.peta.org/
Ideas for my presentation:
A really good video.
General impression:
Very good

My last oral presentation !

In my opinion this is the worst oral presentation I have done during first of Batxillerat. I don't know why but I was really nervous and I think I didn't take care enough about pronunciation but I think we had done a beautiful and original power point and it helped us during the presentation.

So I recognize that I hadn't prepared it enough and the mark shows that.

Self-Evaluation.

Today I want to talk about my last oral presentation, I have done it with Claudia, and we talked about our trip to England.
We have chosen this topic because we had really enjoyed these holidays there, and we wanted to explain to all the people how interesting England could be. Another important fact to make a great presentation is to love the topic and to prepare it, and we have done both things. That’s another reason why we have chosen our holidays to talk about.

We have explained the places we visited and we talked about the English food, so, we dealt with different cultural things about England and the English people.
In my opinion I did it better than the first presentation, maybe because the experience make me feel better and my nerves disappeared, or perhaps doing the oral presentation in pairs helped us to feel more comfortable.

my second oral presentation.

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Oral presentation!

I have got some problems with the video, and I can't load it because I recorded it with my mobile phone, so I'm sorry but this term I only write the text of the presentation!!
And the photos are the pictures I showed you in my PowerPoint!




First of all I would like to introduce myself. My name’s Carles as you already know, I’m sixteen years old and I live in a small village called Vilamacolum. Here you can see a photo of the village. is near Sant Pere Pescador, and we are five hundred of people living there. I really like this small village because it’s really quiet and you know all the people who live here.







I have got lots of hobbies but my passion is motorcycling. Before talking about it I will tell you what I do most of the weekends. We are a group of friends, approximately 20.
We usually do lots of different things for example, going to the cinema or going for a ride with our motorbikes, and most of the days we stay in Can Creixell the whole afternoon.
On Saturday night, we usually meet at Ruki’s bar in St Pere Pescador and then we decide where we go.

As I told you before, my favourite sport is motorcycling.
I’ve got my new motorbike since last September. I usually take it every day, but when I really enjoy it is on Saturdays, when we go to different places. For example last weekend we went to Requesens castle. In my opinion this is a really funny sport because when we go for a ride together we see really beautiful landscapes and if you go with your friends you really enjoy these trips.
Now, we are building a motocross circuit and when we finish it we will train there.


Related with the motorbike topic, I’m going to talk about Travis Pastrana. In my opinion he is the best motocross rider of the world.
He has won lots of competitions not only in motocross, but he also practices lots of motorsports, rally racing, freestyle mx, motocross and supercross.
Travis was born on 1983 so now he is twenty-four years old.
At fourteen he won his first world championship. And he has been the inventor of lots of new freestyle tricks. The most spectacular trick that he had done is the double backflip; he was the first rider who do it. At the 2006 X-games he did the backflip so… he won the competition.
After the X-games, Pastrana said that he had no plans to do it again.
His X-games participation ended when he injured his right knee meanwhile he was running to see his friend in the stands.

I hope you have enjoyed my oral presentation and if you have any questions….