My oral presentation

TRANSCRIPT

Hi! My name is Maria and I’m 16 years old.
Now I’m going to talk about what I did during the summer holidays.
At the begining of the summer I started to work in a summer school. On the first day I felt a little lost because I didn’t know which group I would be in, but I was lucky because I was with my older cousin.
I was with the small children (3 – 4 years old) and they were very loving and friendly. I was with them for 2 months but only in the morning.
As the children were so small we didn’t do a lot of things because they were tired an got bored very quickly, you know.
They did a lot of different things for example: They played games in the yard, they went to the parks, they draw and painted and they went to the swimming-pool and the beach.
We had to watch them carefully because there were 35 children and they could have hurt themselves.
When I finished work, in the afternoon, I went to the beach with my friends, I went to shopping etc. Some nigths I also went to parties or discos depending on the day.
But later, in the middle of the summer everything changed because my grandmother became ill and I visit her when I could but I couldn’t go out so much.
All my friends helped me a lot.
Working with the little children also helped me because we did a lot of things: we went on trips and also to a camp for 2 days, it was very hard for all the monitors with all the children.
We had to help them so much because they were so little. We had to dress them, help them have a shower and sometimes help them to eat. However, the worst was at night because most of them cried.
I had a good time but I wanted to get home. I was so tired.
The summer camp was at the end of the summer, so a week later the summer school finished and I stopped working.
In general, it wasn’t a bad summer.
I enjoyed it and I learnd a lof of new things and I met new friends.

OBSERVATION

I think that my oral presentation was quite good. Because I used a power point, but there weren’t a lot of photos beacuse se didn’t take photos at the summer school. The timing was good because my presentation lasted (X) minutes.

I was quite nervous and sometimes I didn’t look at my audience but I made some gestures or movements that held the attention of my classmates.

The structure of my presentation, was good because my ideas were clear and I organized it in the correct order, in my opinion.

The content was important for me because I talked about what I did during the summer holidays but I don’t know if the people were interested in what I was saying.

I think that my language, in general was correct because I used a varied vocabulary, I used sentence linkers and some pause fillers.

Finally, I think that my pronunciation and intonation could have been better.

To sumarize, even I though it was my first oral presentation. I think it went quite well, but I am sure that I will improve the next time.

Eat healthy

Eating healthy food is very important for your health because it helps you to have less illnesses.

Everyday there are more overweight people because of bad eating habits, most of all children, because they eat too many hamburgers, chips and drink soft drinks with addatives.

Moreover, nowadays, more and more people work sitting down (secretaries, students etc.) and so if we don’t do exercices and eat healthy food (fruit, vegetables and fish) then we won’t be healthy.

Perhaps there are people who don’t put on weight and they look well, but maybe they don’t have a healthy diet.

People who don’t do sport and don’t have a healthy diet, normally have health problems like colesterol or heart problems.

So, doctors and others experts recommend them to do sport and eat healthy food.

Teacher

I want to be a teacher because I love this job. When I finish batxillerat, I want to go to the university to study teachers training.
For me, to become a teacher is more than a dream because it’s my real vocation.
When I was little, I always said: “When I am older, I want to be a teacher”. And now, I continue thinking the same.

This summer I worked with little children in a summer school and I discovered that it was what I really want to do in the future.

When I become a teacher I will help my pupils, I become educated people and I want to theach them a lot of new things.
I also think that children give a lot of satisfaction to their teachers and it is a wonderful experience.

Our song..*

Honey you are a rock
upon which I stand
and I come here to talk
i hope you understand.
That green eyes
yeah the spotlight, shines upon you
and how could anybody deny you
I came here with a load
and it feels so much lighter
now I met you
and honey you should know
that I could never go on without you
green eyes.
Honey you are the sea
upon which I float
and I came here to talk
I think you should know.
That green eyes
you're the one that I wanted to find
and anyone who tried to deny you
must be out of their mind.
Because I came here with a load
and it feels so much lighter
since I met you
and honey you should know
that I could never go on without you.
Green eyes
green eyes
ooh ooh ooh ooh
ooh ooh ooh ooh
ooh ooh ooh ooh
Honey you are the rock
upon which I stand.

I chose this song because is very beautiful and my boyfriend and I, love it.

When somebody falls in love, nothing is more important than this person. Because for me, he has come into my life and he becomes the person who hugs me when I cry and the person who shares the good and bad moments in my life.

The song say: “honey, you should know that I could never go on without you, green eyes”.

And I feel that. I feel that if he goes away everything gets worse and I need him more and more all the time.

He’s the rock upon which I stand.

Opinion on film

Failure to lauch

The film is about a boy. He’s 35 years old and he lives with his parents. His mother does everything for him.
He only goes to parties, goes fishing with his friends, goes to the forest cycling and goes out with a lot of women.
That is why his parents want to find a girlfriend for him because they want him to leave home soon.
He doesn’t have a girlfriend because his last girlfriend died.
But when he goes shopping with his parents he meets a very nice girl and they start to go out.
After some time they continue going out and finally they fall in love with each other.

I think that this film is very interesting, because it is about a 30 years old boy who still lives at home and he always depends on his mother.
It’s very enjoyable because the scenes are very funny and humorous, although there are some tragic and romantic ones.
On the other hand, the actors were very good and I think that one of the best was Sarah Jessica Parker.
On the whole, I liked the film very much.

New

Divorce Decree

Getting a divorce anywhere is a stressful and painful process but if you don’t live in your own country it is more difficult.
Divorce has only been legal here since 1981.

Prime Minister José Luís Rodríguez Zapatero changed these laws in 2005.

Now it is not necessary to be legally separated for a certain period of time to get a “divorcio express”.

International couples can get divorced in Sapin relatively quickly.

All divorces in Sapin take place at a Juzgado de Primera Instancia and you will need a lawyer to be in court for you.

You have to present your marriage certificate and you will need to supply details of information of your economic situation.

If you have lived in the UK for most of your married life but you are getting divorced in Spain, the judge can apply the divorce laws of the UK.

Piercing

Nowadays, a lot of teenagers have a piercing.

The people often have piercing because they want to become a member of a group of friends or like other people. The teenagers that do this are superficial because if a person wants to have a tattoo or a piercing to be like others, shows that this person has very little character.

Everybody has to do what they want and in agreement with their principals.

These things could be bad because if you are always worried about what other people think about you, finally you do what your friends want. Only you know what is best for yourself.

Personally, I think that it’s not as bad as they say. Sometimes there are people who do these things, but I and more people have a piercing because we really like it.

I know that some people disagree with piercing but I feel well with mine.

Fary tale

The children of Shipley

Once upon a time in a very very small village there were a group of children who when to the same school.

Their parents worked in little shops or in the forest. They lived in old houses and had a lot of pets because their garden were normally really big (with trees and flowers).

These friends, ten boys and eight girls, were very naughty and always did things to bother their teacher and the people who lived in the same village.

Everybody was so angry with them and the people met to speak about the children. But the best opiton was always: “They need to know new things, because they’re 11 years old and never go out of this village”.

But one day, the children did a very very bad thing: they went to a house that was really terrifyring. Harry lived in this house. He was an old man who had sheep and an old dog. He was always alone and he usually shouted the children.

So, they wanted to fright him. The old man was very angry with them.

And the people in the village (including the children’s parents) took notice of Harry. The man said: “I always go to the forest and I am afraid. The children need to be agraid”.

The children camped in the forest and they were afraid. George and Max got lost. They found them alone and afraid, next to a river. The others were also afraid, they wanted to go home but they were so lost and they couldn’t find their way home.

Two days later, Harry went to look for them in the forest and they went back to the village.
Since that day the children have never made anybody angry again, and they all live happily and peacfully.

"At your age"

M -Hello! Our mine topic today in our radio programme it's “At your age". Aida! Who are you?

A -Hi! Fine thanks.

M -Ok, The first question is for you:

M. What is the best age? Why?

A· For me the best age is eighteen, because you become independent, you can drive a car, and you finish school and go to university. There you can live with your friends.

A. What are the things that you like and dislike about your age?

M· At my age I can go to some discos and go to parties. I can drive a motorbike.

But I can't go to a lot of discos, I can't be independent, I can't drive a car and my parents control me a lot, because they think that I do bad things when I go out.

M. What are the good and bad things about getting older?

A· There are good things about getting older. For example, when you become older you do a lot of things: work, buy a car and a house, you have children and a husband,...

But there are bad things too. For example, you pay you bills, and work for to support your family. However when you stay at home with your parents they do everything for you: make food, wash your clothes, clean the house and they buy you everything you need.

A. What were you like as a child?

M· As a child, I used to be a happy person, because I didn't know about problems.

I spent all day playing with dolls and puzzles.

M. How do you want to be as an adult?

A· As an adult, I want to have children, I want to buy a very big house with a swimming pool and I want to be a teacher.

I want to buy a lot of clothes, shoes, make-up and go to the gym.

M- Ok, thanks Aida for coming.

A- Bye

TV Rubbish

I think that there are a lot of programmes on TV that teach us nothing.

For example: Gran Hermano, Sálvame and more. In these programme people only argue with each other appear.

The rubbish programmes search people who want to earn a lot of money to explain things, usually false, about the person that they don’t like. The presentators always shout a lot and they’re sometimes very nervous.

In these TV programmes everything is a show.

I think that the people who are quite responsable, don’t do this, because it only dirties their imatge and then, their life is very horrible and tiring.

The paparatzis never stop to bother them.

Thirteen & Adrian Mole

There are few similarities between the book and film:

Adrian and Tracy’s parents get a divorce. The boy and girl have best friends: Adrian’s best friend is Nigel and Tracy’s best friend is Evie. Nigel and Evie went out with their friends boyfriend and girlfriend.

Adrian and Tracy have problems in their house because their parents are alcoholics and they usually fight.

Adrian is always worried about the food that he eats and about his appearance. Tracy is always worried about her appearance, too.

The two teenagers are bullied by people at school.

There are a lot of differencies between the book and film:

On the one hand, in the book, Adrian mother’s, runs away. She lives with Lucas in another house and Adrian lives with his father. Adrian’s father doesn’t have a job and he has got a lot of bills.

Adrian has a grandmother. She helps him when Barry Kent bullied him, she looks after Adrian when he’s ill and she took them to live with her because they didn’t have any electricity.

But finally, Adrian’s mother came back home.

On the other hand, in the film, at the beginning Tracy is a good student, a decent girl and she has normal friends.

She lives in a nice house with her brother, her mother (she’s a hairdresser) and her mother’s boyfriend ( he is a drugadict).

But when she met Evie, she changed a lot: she took drugs, things from other people, cuts herself and she’s sexyaly promiscuous.

Evie lives with Tracy in Tracy’s house but at the end of the film Evie cheats on Tracy when her mother’s know the problems that they have and the four women ( Evie, her mother and Tracy and her mother) talk.

In the conversation Evie says that Tracy is a bad influence on her and both girls will never be friends again.

Tracy becomes normal again.

Introduce myself

Hi! I'm Maria and I'm sixteen years old. I live in Castelló d'Empúries and I study first of batxillerat at IES Castelló d'Empúries.
I've got a brother, his name is Sergi and he's 27 years old. We are good friends.
My parents' name are Toni and Maria Rosa. They are the best for me. I talk about everything with my mother, we're like best friends.
My parents, my brother and I live next door to my grandparents.
My extra school activities are gym and extraclasses.
My hobbies are: going out with my friends (because I enjoy it), shopping, I love listening to music, surfing the internet and going to parties and discos.
My best friends are Aida, Ariadna and Laura. They're special for me and I like explaining my problems to them. They help me and undersand me a lot.