My first oral presentation was did with David and Marc Puig, we were so nervous and we did a bad oral presentation. These oral presentation talked about racism and things related with this topic.
I think that the content of the presentation was good, because we searched it and prepared a lot the work, and the structure is also good, so everybody summarized his part and explained it respecting the structure. But the language, the presentation, the fluency and the pronunciation were so bad, first, the language was too simple and bad pronounced, for this reason, the presentation was horrible. Finally, the fluency of the speaking is not good.
But my last oral presentation was very different, I were more secure of myself and I did a good oral presentation about The national symbols of Catalonia, so it caused that the content and the structure of the presentation were so good. The language was a little bit easy but there were some necessary technicalities, the fluency was so good but the pronunciation it’s already improvable.
I am very happy about my improving in oral presentations, because in my firsts presentations I were very nervous and I didn’t explain the topic how I wanted, but in my lasts presentations I were more secure and my fluency was so better. Although that my pronunciation and language are very improved since last year, I think they are my worst elements of the presentation.
Now, you can watch the videos of both presentations:
COMPARING ORAL PRESENTATIONS
COMPARING: FRIST WRITTEN DOCUMENT vs LAST COMPOSTION
Well, my school time is finishing and it’s moment to remember my first written document and compare it with my last composition. My first composition in batxillerat was the next mail, sent to my 1st Batxillerat teacher:
Hello, my name is Guillem and I am fifteen years old because my birthday is the October 19th. I live in Castelló d'Empúries with my parents and my brother that is two years older than me. I like play football and watch on TV, I play in the team of the town, Esplais, with other people of the IES, and my favourite football team is Barça. I also like meet friends and laugh with him.
You can compare this text with my last composition, that it’s about the Skatalà concert:
Skatalà is the best ska band from Catalonia, together with Dr. Calypso and Discípulos de Otilia. This year, they celebrate their 25 birthday with a mini tour of 10 concerts in Catalonia, the first of them in Girona and the last in Barcelona.
When Adrià, Albert, Oriol and me knew that, we decided to go to the concert, it was last March, in ‘La Mirona’ (Salt). We went by train at the afternoon, and we go to Salt by bus from center of Girona, in Salt we went to ‘Espai Gironès’ to have breakfast and to have dinner, then, we meet with one friend who bring us by car to the concert.
In the concert room, we meet more friends from l’Empordà and we played ‘futbolín’ while we were listening ‘The kinky coco’s’ but when skatalà started to play, we separated and I go to the first line alone, there, I enjoyed a lot the concert. At the finishing of the concert, we meet my friends and danced the last songs.
The concert was great and we were very tired, for this reason, we return to home with Adrià’s mother.
Comparing these texts, the first thing you can see is that last one is longer than the first one, that’s to say that now I have more fluency, second think that we can see is that in the first composition I use a lot of simple phrases, but in the other composition, there are more complicated phrases, words and expressions, another thing that is also important is the structure because in last composition we can see paragraphs that are talking about the same thing, while in the first text, the information is not structured and there aren’t paragraphs.
Although there are not very important errors in the first text, vocabulary and grammar are very simple “I like play football and watch on TV.”, but in the other composition there are more complicated grammar and vocabulary “We went by train at the afternoon, and we go to Salt by bus from center of Girona, in Salt we went to ‘Espai Gironès’ to have breakfast and to have dinner, then, we meet with one friend who bring us by car to the concert.”
So, comparing these texts we can watch and improvement of composition’s quality, thanks to improvement in vocabulary and grammar.
SKATALÀ IN CONCERT
Skatalà is the best ska band from Catalonia, together with Dr. Calypso and Discípulos de Otilia. This year, they celebrate their 25 birthday with a mini tour of 10 concerts in Catalonia, the first of them in Girona and the last in Barcelona.
When Adrià, Albert, Oriol and me knew that, we decided to go to the concert, it was last March, in ‘La Mirona’ (Salt). We went by train at the afternoon, and we go to Salt by bus from center of Girona, in Salt we went to ‘Espai Gironès’ to have breakfast and to have dinner, then, we meet with one friend who bring us by car to the concert.
In the concert room, we meet more friends from l’Empordà and we played ‘futbolín’ while we were listening ‘The kinky coco’s’ but when skatalà started to play, we separated and I go to the first line alone, there, I enjoyed a lot the concert. At the finishing of the concert, we meet my friends and danced the last songs.
The concert was great and we were very tired, for this reason, we return to home with Adrià’s mother.
Now, you can see one video of the concert:
MEDIA
In our world, where the most important thing is the money, tv channels are not an exception and their only one objective is to have the much more audience possible. For this reason, these tv channels give to de audience what they want, and they want discussions or scandals.
But the most important problem is not that tv channels make this kind of programs, the most important is think that we prefer watch people screaming than a documental, I think it’s that we have to meditate.
On the other hand, I opine that the other great problem in actual television is that are not objective, even public televisions. All the televisions tell the information depending the ideology of the directors or the inversors. It causes that normal people can’t know what’s happening in the world, and that governments and media control the information.
In conclusion, I think that if we want to watch quality television and to receive objective information, we haven’t to watch these kind of programs and we have to protest, because it can cause that people can be dominated by media and governments.
THIS IS ENGLAND
This is England is a film that talks about the starting of skinhead movement, in 80’s. The main character is a young boy, who is 12 years old and whose father died in Malvinas war.
He’s fat and not popular, and he feels bad with himself because he has not friends, but this situation changes when he meet a group of boys that helps him and give him confidence. These people wear military boots, Harrington jackets, black hat and hair shaven; they look after him and integrate him in the group.
Their ideology is not racist, so one member of the group is black, but they have a friend who has been in prison and has a nationalist and fascist ideology and wants to enter in politics. Some of the members of the group follow him, including the youngest boy. During days they come to different political meetings, but it finished when their friend wants that he join with him to start a racist movement, some of them back down and it caused a big discussion that finished with some deaths.
I like a lot this film because reflects the starting of an extended movement and the different ideologies of skinheads.
MONEY vs QUARRY
During this season, we have seen to ways to win: by the money or by the quarry, represented by R.Madrid and F.C. Barcelona, both ways are practical but only one will catch the glory.
On the one hand, last summer, Madrid has wasted a lot of money to sign the best players in the world, like CR9, Kaka’ or Benzema. These players are so good footballers and help his team with a lot of goals and with his qualities, but their ego causes some problems in the team and make the team worse. Although the quality of his players make that the team win a lot of matches and can be competitive.
On the other hand, Barcelona has not wasted too much money but has formed his young players, so players like Busquets, Bojan, Pedro, Messi, Xavi or Piqué haven’t been bought, they haven’t been formed. The feelings of this players about his team make that they play so well and they win a lot of matches too.
So, we have two winning teams by different ways. In my opinion, win with bought players has not merit because it causes that the richer club is the best club, and I think that the best club has to be the club that has formed the best players. For this reason, I would like that all the teams follow the way of life of Athletic Bilbao, that only play with players formed in the club.
POLITICS IN SPAIN
In our times, when there is an economical crisis, it’s too difficult for the voters to design the person who can solve the situation, moreover, in a lot of countries there are only two great political parties so, the power is distributed by only two people.
Now, the president Zapatero is not capable to solve the situation, but the other candidate is neither capable to solve the problem, this duality of power causes that people don’t show interest in politics and that the confidence in politicians is too low.
For this reason, I think that it’s important that people show interest in politics and say their opinion because it’s the base of the democracy. Democracy is not decide between two persons one time in 4 years.
GOOGLE ENTERS DIGITAL BOOKS WAR WITH LAUNCH OF EDITIONS
Page last updated at 9:24 GMT, Wednesday, 5 May 2010 10:24 UK
By Maggie Shiels Technology reporter, BBC News, Silicon Valley 
This text deals about the intention of search giant Google to launch its own online e-book store in 2010, so Google wants to follow the great multinationals that also wants to enter in the digital books war.
I think that electronic books can contribute to save a lot of trees and can be more practical to us, but there are people who say that paper books are irreplaceables. Anyway, my opinion is that it’s important to develop our technology and that it helps to preserve the planet.
OIL SLICK HITS CHANDELEUR ISLANDS OFF LOUISIANA
Page last updated at 00:20 GMT, Friday, 7 May 2010 01:20 UK
BBC news
This news from bbc talks about one of the more important natural catastrophes in USA history, there is an oils slick in Louisiana coasts that It’s destroying the zone of Chandeleur islands, with a lot of endangered species.
In my opinion, there have to be much more caution with this kind of accidents because they can cause very important natural disasters.
THE LEAGUE OF EXTRAORDINARY GENTLEMEN
Today I love English
Nº 4 April/May 2004
This text by Rupert Morgan talks about the film called “The league of extraordinary Gentlemen”, this fil deals with adventures of extraordinary figures with legendary powers to battle the technological terror of a madman.
I think that the idea of this film is so fun and original, because the director joins popular characters from different novels like Dracula, Captain Nemo or Dorian Gray.
In the next video, you can watch the trailer of the film: