My summer holidays

Writing

Hello everybody! My name is Elisabet and today I want to talk about my summer holidays.

First I went to England with some friends and we stayed in a town, called Poole.

Second I went to Roses with my best friend, Clàudia three days. After that, I went to Platja d'Aro and I invited Clàudia four days in my apartment.

Then I went to Menorca ten days with my parents and some friends of them.

And finally, I had my last time in Banyoles.

Ok. I'm going to start.

In England I stayed in a town, called Poole, three weeks with a family. They are a lovelly family. This year, the grandoughter of the parents, Chloee, the grandsoon, Ryan and their mother, Kelly were living at the same house, because Kelly has just divorced.

I have been very happy in their house. I enjoied being with Chloee and Ryan. I shared bedroom with Chloee, so we talked so much at nights. With Ryan I learnt a lot about football, because every afternoon he wanted to play with me.

And with my friends, it was fantastic! I met new friends...

Every Morning, we were going to Mery's house to do class. But we only were six because we were preparing for the Pet exam. And in the afternoons we went to the splash down, to the cinema, to the bowling, to visit the Old Harry rocks, to visit castles, Stonehenge, to shopping.... And every Sunday we went to London.

I went to Roses, with Clàudia. We stayed with her friends and we went to the swiming-pool... I had a graeat time with her. What I liked most in Roses was go with her to walk near the sea, a long the coast. Then, I went to Platja d'Aro and when I invited Clàudia, we went to boat, to the beach, to the swiming-pool... And we met with my neighbors. It was fantastic!

As I said I went to Menorca and I had a lot of fun there. I love the white sand beaches and the clean turquoise water.

And after all of this time, I stayed in Platja d'Aro until my parents had to come back to work.

SO... I HAD A GREAT TIME THIS SUMMER!

PRESENTATION QUESTIONNAIRE

PRESENTATION

• Did you use any resources? Yes, I used the dicctionary and I also looked my oral presentation from last year.

• Were the resources relevant and attractive? Yes, some were relevant but for my oral I had a guide.

BODY LANGUAGE AND EYE CONTACT

- Did you look at your audience most of the time? Yes but at the beginning, when I was waching my classmates, my teacher had to climb on the table to low down the volum and I could speak better.

- Did you read from your notes? Sometimes yes, because I needed the guide for knew when I had to pass the slide.

- Did you do any gestures/movement to hold the attention of your audience? Not many.

STRUCTURE AND CONTENT

STRUCTURE

- Did you organize your ideas in order of importance? Yes, I organized my summer from the biginning until the end about what I did.

- Did you use discourse markers to to make your ideas more clear?

(First, then, secondly, on the one hand, on the other hand,

finally..) Yes, I used some of them.

CONTENT

• Did you introduce interesting NEW information to your audience? Yes, because this summer I've been in different places than my last year holidays.

• Did you look up information/facts/ideas in the internet, books..? No, I didn't.

• Was your information more superficial or more detailed, and original? My information about England was more detailed than the Menorca one, that it was superficial because I didn't have time to put the pictures on time and the presentation was long enough.

LANGUAGE AND PRONUNCIATION

LANGUAGE

- Did you check your grammar?(verbs, word order) Yes, as I said I looked the dictionary for some words.

- Did you use rich vocabulary looking up the dictionary? I hadn't needed to look so much at the dictionary because all the words that I had to use I knew it.

(synonyms, new words, expressions..)

- Did you use sentence linkers?(and, but, moreover, also, furthermore, although,however..) I didn't use too much.

- Did you use fillers?(well, you know, for example, one second..) I used: “as I said” that is the same as “you know”.

PRONUNCIATION AND INTONATION

• Did you know how to pronounce all your words? Yes, but when you have a camera and people in front of you, you are nervous and you don't pronounce some words properly.

• Did you check the pronunciation with a dictionary, a classmate or the teacher? No, I didn't.

• Did you change your tone of voice or use a monotone tone all the time? I changed my tone of voice in the different parts of my oral.
• Did you speed in a fluid continuum or with breaks and interruptions? I spoke in a fluid continuum with some breaks.

SELF- EVALUATION

You are your teacher!

What mark did you get????

I can't put me a mark, but I think that is the time that I did it better and with less nervous.