vendredi 27 mars 2009

News. News-News

PARIS -26/3/09

In France police has arrested an old woman helped to recharged cell phones for illegal immigrants

The 59-year-old volunteer with a lot of groups in the Calais region of northern France was put behind bars and interrogated for three hours before being free.

The French government forbids helping illegal migrants and sets quotas for arrests of those who do it. To try to control growing clandestine immigration. This year 5,000 have been arrested.

vendredi 13 mars 2009

The evaluation of my second oral presentation

1- watch your presentation and answer the following questions:
NAME & TOPIC:
English universities

Presentation:
-Did you use any resources? Were the recources elegant and attractive?
To do this presentation, we've needed to surch some information on the net about the most famous and great universities in England. The resources were elegant and attractive at the same time. Both of us were interesting to talk about this topic, first because it our dream to go study there.


Body lenguage and eye contact:
-Did you look at your audience most of the time? I think that I've done it, but this time, I think that I was less prepared thanI should be and I was so stressed that I was often watching my information paper.

-Did you read from your notes? Yes I do most of time because.-Did you do any gestures/movement to hold the attention of your audience? I made a lot of gestures with my arms, it's a way to make me understandable.
Structure:
-Did you organize your ideas in order of importance?
Yes we've start explaining of what our presentation consisit after we explained with more details four universities: Oxford, the Imperial of London, Lincoln and Cambridge.
-Did you use discourse markers to make your ideas more clear? Yes I do, like '' then, finally, so, first...''


Content:
-Did you introduce interesting, NEW information to your audience?
I think that we've done it , because we've talk about something that should interest a lot of student of our class because next year we'll have to go to the universities, and the English universities are the most great and important.
-Did you look up information/facts/ideas in the internet/books...? we've look for informations and idees in internet.
-Was your information more superficial or more detailed and original? I don't think that the information was too detailed, we gave a general informations but we've specified it when we've talked about each four universities.
Language:
-Did you use check your grammar?
yes for a few word that I didn't understand
-Did you use rich vocabulary looking up the dictionary? yes
-Did you use sentences linkers? yes
-Did you use fillers?

Pronunciation & Intonation:
-Did you know how to pronunce all your words?
Did you ckeck a pronuntiation with a dictionary, a classmate, or a teacher?
I think that I've improve my pronunciation but I had a dificulty to pronounce the word ''engeenary''

-Did you change your tone of voice or use monotone tone all the time? did you speed in a fluis continuum or with breaks and interruptions? I think that I've used a monoton voice, I've try to talk slowly, but it's true that because of stress, I had some difficulties to remember some things so I've let some informations.

Self-evaluation:
-You are your teacher! what mark did you get? for this time I don't think that I was in my best day so I'll put a 7 honestly.