dissabte, 28 de febrer del 2009

Obervation your oral presentation

TOPIC: South Africa

Presentation:
1. Did you use any resources? Yes, a powerpoint and two videos.
2. Were the resources relevant and attractive? Yes, they were.

Body language and eye contact:
3. Did you look at your audience most of the time? I look sometimes the power point but I’m think that I look at the audience for the majority time.
4. Did you read from your notes? Only in the numbers how the years.
5. Did you do any gestures/movement to hold the attention of you audience? In the first presentation I move a lot, but in this presentation I had partners and I don’t needed.

Structure:
6. Did you organize your ideas in order of importance? Yes.
7. Did you use discourse makers to make your ideas more clear? No, I improvize my ideas that I think were correct.

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 bit superficial in geography and politics but detailed in history of the country.

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? No a lot but yes.
14. Did you use fillers? No, I use the important information I wanted to say.

Pronunciation & Intonation:
15. Did you know how to pronunce all you words? Yes, we practised together a lot.
16. Did you check the pronunciation with a dictionary, a classmate or the teacher? No.
17. Did you change your tone of voice or use a monotone tone all the time? I think that no.
18. Did you speed in a fluid continuum or with breaks and interruptions? In a fluid continuum but with some breaks.

Self-Evaluation: I’m critic and I expect it would be worst than the first, I had more breaks and I didn’t said all I want and I made some grammar errors.

Check your Language and Structure. Can you correct your mistakes?
I think the Structure it's correct because we’ve worked a lot but I’ve done some grammar erros because I were a little bit nervous at the first time and for this reason I made some breaks.

Oral presentation transcription

HISTORY:
The history of South Africa is marked by imigration, ethnic conflict, and the anti-black people struggle. The Khoisan peoples aboriginal are the first to live in this area but not everybody is black in the african continent there are white people too and you’re thinking: why white people? Well, I want to explain you.

In 1487, the Portugueses explorers and Bartolomeu Dias were the firsts Europeans to became to Africa. 300 years after, Great Britain colonize this region because Portugal has never interested about it.

The discovery of diamonds in 1867 and gold in 1884 cause two enormous battles named the two Boers wars between europeans and the indigenous in this moment named Boers caused to this rich domain with diamonds and gold. Finally South Africa were named independent in 1948 and there are all wonderful with a president, with a parliement but with an enormous discrimination about black people, and there is where appear Nelson Mandela’s figure who won a lot of awards including the Nobel Peace Prize in 1993.

POLITICS:
South Africa is divided on a lot of departments and the vote of these elections is departments votes ten members, and these ten memebers voted the government in the lower house, and the leader of the lower house and is the majority vote is denominated president.

The current President of South Africa is Kgalema Motlanthe, who replaced Thabo Mbeki. Mbeki replaced Nelson Mandela in 1999, and Yhabo Mbeki was re-elected in 2004, but the last year he announced his resignation and there are other actions.

GEOGRAPHY:
South Africa is located at the totally of south of African continent, there are more than 2,500 kilometres of stretches and the coastline, he across the atlantic ocean and the indic ocean and it has too a small sub-Antarctic archipelago of the Prince Edward Islands, consisting of Marion Island and Prince Edward Island, and it has South Africa is the 25th-largest country in the world and he’s divided on a lot of departmens, 52 departments


Well if you have any question, we’ll try to answer it.



dimecres, 4 de febrer del 2009

Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

There are a lot of differences between novels and films, for this reason I want to tell you some differences between the novel and film viewed recently, Frankestein.

The novel has written to Mary Shelleys published in 1818. It has written in Geneva when Lord Byron propose a championship to see who could write the most terrible story. The plot of the novel can be explained in general, because the resume it's the same as film.

Victor Frankestein was a young man who lived in Geneva with his family happily. His father was doctor and him want to become like him or an important person in the medicine camp. Victor's mother always had wanted a daughter, for this reason the family had adopted a poor young girl, Elizabeth. After adopted the poor girl the family had two more sons, William and Ernest.

Film - Victor and Henry meet us in the university.
Novel - Victor and Henry are friends since they're child in Geneva.

Film - Victor extracts the Elizabeth monster's heart.
Novel - Victor destroy the Elizabeth monster's body.

The more important difference between the film and novel is the criature borned in Victor's hands from Elizabeth's dead body. Elizabeth can remeber things she do in past and feels and seeing the monster she is transformed she burn herself.