Oral presentation

I’m going to do a reflection of my Oral presentation.

In my second oral presentation, the resources which I use are powerpoint, sound, images,etc.
In this time, I think that the powerpoint is better than the other because we did not put a lot of text, we only put a lot of differents images, which are very expressive.
Because of that, the resources which I used helps me to realize a good work.
The timing of my oral presentation, it is correct.

I think, that my expression between the class, it is very good, because I did not very nervous, I was looking my audience the major part of the time. Also, I read some time, but it was not true that I read a lot, I read only to start the phrase, and in my opinion I improved my gestures thanks to it was the second time that I did an oral presentation.

The estructure of the text it was excelent in my simple opinion, we organized the ideas in the correct order, the major to minor importance, but also we did not use a lot of linking works to connect the differents points.

As you know, the country which we chose it was Jamaica, and I think that a lot of people know it, but only the simple things, we teached to the class a lot of interesting things as the typical food, the kinds of music of the country, etc as the things more emphasizes.
The information was detailed, in the best form possible, because we did not have enought time, but I think that with the examples the information was very clear.
First, we pretend to do an original work, but as you can imagine, we did not anything of Jamaica, and we had to look information to internet.

In the presentation, I used a good grammar, because I prepared at home the vocabulary, but it is true that sometimes when I did not remember something I could be used an incorrect word.
Moreover, also I used some synonym but not in the most important and repeated word that we pronounced, “island”.

The pronunciation, also it was the most negative thing that I did in my oral presentation, because as you know, it is an aspect difficult to me, and it is usually reflects on my speaking to catalan too.















Literal transcription of my part.



Jamaica is an island nation of the Greater Antilles. It is situated in the Caribbean Sea.
Most major towns and cities are located on the coast.
The climate in Jamaica is tropical, with hot and humid weather.
Jamaica lies in the hurricane belt of the Atlantic Ocean; as a result, the island sometimes experiences significant storm damage.



Politic:

The jamaican constitution establish a parliamentary government sistem, as United Kingdom model where the first minister is the boss of the government.



Food and drink:

1. “Merey del diablo”: this fruit came from africa, and it’s one of the most used ingredients to prepare other meal like fish, souffle and other meals.

2. “Empanadillas”: one of the most important meals of jamaican people. They love it taste, also it came to the island with the colonization of the UK.

3. “Café Blue Mountain”: its one of the best coffies in the world, and with limited production it has a high price , the england royal family drinks this coffee.

4. “Rabbit in rum”: The rum is very important drink in the island, this meal needs 2 days to get finished, and its tasty and smells good.

Music:

Jamaica is a famous country in the world thanks to its music which is very famous in the world.
In Jamaica emphasize different kinds of music that are created in the island, like reggae, ska and dub.
Bob marley is one of the most representants of Jamaica, who with his music teached the jamaican culture around the world.
But actually, Sean Paul is the most famous singer of Jamaica, and Paul is recognized around the world.

The beach: There are a lot of beautiful beaches where you can pass your perfect holidays.

The dolphin cove that is a place where you have the opportunity of swim with delfins, for this I recommend you that if you can go there, you don’t think twice.

Finally I thing that the mark that I got it is a 7/10.

Should the experiments on human life have limits?

The question “ should the experiments on human life have limits” is a problem which is reflected in Frankenstein’s book, but it can also be possible in real life. It is a topic that has been existing for some years, when technology started to be used to colonize the world.

If scientists take it slowly and with precaution, they will be about to find the solution for a lot of problems. They will be able to improve life, to fight against a lot of diseases and consequently rise life expectancy. Also, they can discover new human capacities, of which until today we don’t know anything yet.

However, passing the limits of nature, can have a lot of catastrophic consequences, which might not have solutions. For example, a girl who wanted to improve her intelligence, beauty and physical appearence died in the hands of the scientists, a thing that is very different from the “death” of organisms in a laboratory.
Moreover, the religious conflicts play another important role, because in the world there is a high percentage of religous people, who think that Good is the only creator, and nobody else has the right to interfere.

In my opinion, I agree to human experiments, because I think it can be a good way to improve our level of life, and consequentely make us happier.
In relation to the religious conflict, even though I am religious, I believe that to solve a lot of problems and to save lives human experiments are positive.

Ander Mirambell

Today, I want to talk about Ander Mirambell for two reasons.

First, because Ander is the first Spanish skeleton pilot who went to the Olympic Games, and the third sportsman of the FEDH( Federación Española de Deportes de Hielo).

In his first competition of the O.G. Ander finished as the 24th out of 28 participants.

To get that result Ander has to work a lot for a long time. As well he does not win any money, on the contrary for his participation in the Olympic Games, he had to pay everything himself: to get slopes for training, to have his sled built and to travel...

And second, because I enjoy talking about a famous "friend" who plays with me in my football team. I do not know him very well, because I am new in the team this year, but I had the opportunity to meet him for two weeks, and we were talking about his dream.

When he told my his dream of going to the O.G. I thought that it was impossible that a man of his appearence could go to the games. As well he commented us the economic subject and in the moment when he said us that he had to pay I thought that he was crazy!

But after that, when he returns from his competitions I will congratulate him.

Ways of communications.

There are a lot of different ways of communication, but today I'm going to talk about the two most important for young people and which have been fashionable for the last three years or so.
They are: messenger and facebook.

Messenger is a kind of chat that you can use to talk with your friends, and people that you know. At the moment, it's one of those things most used by teenagers to talk with people, but as well to meet new people. The conversation is written but directly like a live conversation, you can even talk face to face if you have a videocamera.

On the contrary facebook, is not so much a chat, but it is a place where people exchange ideas, coments, photos, etc and actually I don't know anybody, except mothers and old people, who don't have one account.

Personally I prefer messenger because it is a form to talk more directly and not so distanced as in facebook. As well messenger has more privacy than facebook, because the information of messenger is more restricted, and you don't have the possibility to offer too many things as in facebook, where there exist a lot of images and anybody can look at your account.

Cigarette ends...

The National Institute of Technology has found that Italians throw away 195 million cigarette ends every day. The butts contain toxics waste that comes up to 300 bilions tons a year.

This news item is very worrying because people start smoking earlier and their number is increasing. The Spanish politicians intend to stop people from smoking in public places, the new law starting on the first of January 2010, but in reallity it hasn't started yet.

When I go out to the pubs, discos, bars a lot of people still smoke and of course they throw the butts into the streets. That means that I can die inhalling smoke, or because of the toxics waste.

All that without being smoker, and this also for a lot of people who don't smoke.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8490511.stm

Broken bones...

Do you know, what? Today I went to the hospital in Figueres for the revision of my arm, that I broke last month. I had bad luck, and the Doctor didn't take off my plaster. I was pissed off by this situation because it wasn't the first time that this happened.

Then, when I was about to go, something really funny happened. I was talking with my mother about how many times I had already broken my bones, and none of us remembered, when suddenly the Doctor gave me all my X-rays.

When we went out, we counted the X-rays and now I think that it was normal I didn't remember how many there were, because we counted eleven in the last ten years.

Imagine, that means, I broke a bone minimum once a year. Because of that I was worried and I asked the Doctor about it, but he said that it was only bad luck.

The bone that was broken most often, is the "radi", approximately in 80% of the situations, next the big toe, and the last and the most "spectacular" was the "clavicula" when I was 6 years old, and it was then when everything started.

Material girls.

Material girls is a comedy about two sisters, that have all they want. But one day they lose everything that they have. Then they start a new period in their lives.

In my opinion this film is very funny, because to see two fashion girls in "bad" conditions is a very strange thing. Moreover, I think that the film has a didactic aspect, which is to talk about the bad attitude that the rich people towards the normal people.
The attitude I`ve mentioned before, you can see every day in real life. Because of that I think that the film is a good example for the people that can't see this attitude and so for reflexion.

Because of all of this, I recommend that the people who want to spend a good time, go and see the film.

Podcast

Christmas Holidays!!!

Finally, today it's the first day of the Christmas holidays. I don't have to wake up early, go to school, study for exams, etc. Today I can do all I want.

At first, now it is one o'clock and I've just got up. When I'll have finished breakfast I'm going to prepare my agenda, to enjoy these days at the maximum.

I have to put in the time of work, the most important meals, and the days when I'm going out skiing with my family.

Later I'm going with my mother to do the Christmas shopping, and the presents for the family. This year I don't know what I want for Christmas, but it's not important because my parents buy what they want, and if I don't like it I'll change it.

The question that is one of the most important things of Christmas is, that, when we grew up we lost the illusion of Santa Claus or the three kings. And this is a shame.

But when we grew up, we discovered new things about Christmas, like the illusion to teach to other people this magic, the big parties that exist......

Because of this and because of a lot of other dfferent things, these days are ones of the most beautiful of the year.

El Canto del Loco

El Canto del Loco is a very famous music group. It is Spanish and its style of music is pop-rock.
It was created in 1994 by Dani Martin, the singer of the group, and Iván Ganchegui, who left the group in 2002. Now the components of the group are Dani Martín, David his cousin and Chema.
The group has created five albums: El canto del loco, A contracorriente, Estados de ánimo, Zapatillas and Personas.

This group is one of my favourites groups in the world because its music expresses a lot of things and I like it.
They have a lot of songs but my favourites are "Una foto en blanco y negro" and "Que caro es el tiempo".

Recently I haven't been listening to El Canto del Loco because I don't have enough time and when I have free time I go out, but on holidays I listen to the group a lot.
Last summer I went to the concert, and it was fantastic, because as in Roses there aren't a lot of people I could stay in a good place.

And at last, I'm going to recommended this group as a kind of entertainment.

BBC News: Blackburn 3 - 3 Chelsea

One of England´s best teams, Chelsea, was eliminated out of the Carling Cup because another team, whose financial situation is inferior to that of Chelsea' s, beat them.
That is a very particular item of news because if you asked 100 milion of people who would win the match, 99,9 milions of fans of the world of football would answer Chelsea.
This team's name is Blackburn, and it dumped chelsea in the penalty shoot-out.

In my opinion it´s very embarassing that a club that has the highest etsimate of all of the football teams in the world had to leave the Carling Cup in this way.
But because of this football is nice, because you never know anything about the future.

One example very similar to this one is, that in Spain everybody was surprised when Alcorcon, a football team of the second B division, dumped the most famous, the best team of the world Real Madrid in the King's cup.

For the fans of Chelsea it must be a very difficult situation because the team that you give all your support to every weekend fails in this way.
But the solution is very easy, win all the others titles that you can :-) !

BBC News