BIOGRAPHY- POWERPOINT

Biography from evatarrescomas

ORAL PRESENTATION

First condicional from evatarrescomas

WRITING UNIT 5.2

A BIOGRAPHY: TAYLOR SWIFT

 

Taylor Swift is an American singer and songwriter. She was born in Wyomissing, Pennsylvania in 1989. She moved to New York and finally she moved to Tennessee.

 

Taylor became interested in musical theatre at the age of nine. She performed in many Breks Youth Theatre Academy productions and travelled regularly to New York for vocal and acting lessons in 1998. After that, she stayed in Tennessee at the age of fourteen to pursue a career in country music in 2003.

 

She did a lot of music albums. Three of his most famous CDs are: Red, Fearless and Speak now. Her new album 2012 is called "Red".

 

Eva Tarrés Comas



GUIDE

ENGLAND

Situation: North of Europe and in South of England

National Day: 23^thof April
Capital city:London
Major cities:Manchester, Liverpool...
Area: 130.500 km²
Most important river:Thames
Important airport:airport of London
England famous for:

• London eye, Big Ben, Buckingham palace

Famous people:

• Robert Pattinson, Wayne Roone, Beatles

Government:have a monarchy and are divided in nations.

Interesting facts:

• London eye, Big Ben, Buckingham palace

SCOTLAND

Situation:North-West Europe is an island of the UK

National Day: 30^th of November (St. Andrew's day)
Capital City: Edinburgh
Population:about 5.254.800 people
Major cities: Glasgow.
Area:is about 78.387 km2
Most important river: Loch Ness
Important airport: airport of Edinburgh
Scotland famous for:

• The Loch Ness where a mysterious monster, famous theaters festivals, medieval castles

Famous people:

• Scots: Walter Scott Musicians: Annie L.

Government:Opened by the Queen Mary Stuart I. It's a monarchy.

Interesting Facts:

• Dolmens, Loch Ness, Castles, Edinburgh

WALES

Situation:East of the UK, bordered by England.

National day: 1^st of March
Capital City: Cardiff
Population:3.064.000 million of people.
Area:20779 km²
Most important river: river Wye
Important airport: Cardiff airport
Wales famous for:

• The medieval castles, for the sport of Rugby

Famous people:

• Ryan Giggs...

Government:have a monarchy with the queen Elizabeth II and Crawyn Jones.
Interesting facts:

• Medieval castles, museums, beautiful mountains

NORTHERN IRELAND

Situation:an island in the North-East of UK

Capital City:Belfast
Major cities:Londonderry, Lisburn...
National day: 17^thof march
Population: 310.000 of people
Area: 14.139 km²
Most important river:River Bann
Important river:airport of Norther Ireland
Northern Ireland famous for:

• Londonderry

Famous people:

• Sean Bean

Government:have a monarchy with the king Peter Robinson.

Interesting facts:

• Cathedral, teathers, museums. 

POWERPOINT

VIDEO

MY SUMMER

WRITING

Hi! My name is Eva, I'm thirteen years old and today I'm talking about my summer holidays.

First I'm talk about my summer holidays in Netherlands and the colonies in Camprodon.

NETHERLANDS

In month of July I went 7 days to Holland with my parents and friends.

We made the trip by bus stopping to visit a city, Dijon. The next day we continued travelling through Luxembourg and visiting the Grand Ducky. We spent the night in a hotel in a beautiful town called Thorn. After breakfast we went to visit on flowers exposition where there are also funfairs called "Floriade", because the flowers are the typical in this country, It's very beautiful!!

The next day in the morning we went to visit the auction of flowers and for the afternoon we visited and went shopping in Amsterdam, the capital of Netherlands. We spent the next day to visit the north of of the country including windmills and the "Gran Dic".

After breakfast we went to visit Netherland in miniature and the world's largest port. And the last day I went back to Banyoles. In this trip I met one new friend: "Laia".

CAMPRODON

I went 5 days on a skating camp with Lídia and other girls where we had a great time, we went training, we did a lot of games, but above all I met new friendships.

VIDEO

MY CLASS MATES'S SUMMER

ORIOL:

He prepared magics show and stayed in Banyoles.

SERGI:

He goes to a bsketball camp, holidays in Sant Antoni de C., Palamós and Platja d'aro.

LÍDIA:

She goes a summer camp "Young Life". Next a suMmer holidays with her parents in Vilanova i la Geltrú and Camprodon.

LAIA:

She went to Sevilla, Ametlla de Mar, and she stay in Banyoles with her friends.

ALBA:

She went to Eivissa and Andorra with her parents. After stay at home in Banyoles.

ANNA:

She goes to Plymuth, Scotland and Llavaneres with Emi. And after, she stay at Banyoles.

PAULA:

She went to Palamós with her best friend and family. Then she estated in Banyoles. And went to Barcelona in the manifestation.

ENRIC:

He went to Paris with her family.

MATEU:

He stay at home in Banyoles, he meet her friends and he goes to the beach.

OBSERVATIONS

PRESENTATION

Did you use any resources? Yes, I use resources like power point with images.

Were the resources relevant attractives? Yes, but when I do my oral presentation the powerpoint I did well and I had to make a not very nice.

Did you show/talk about the photos to the audience? Yes, I talk about the photos.<

BODY LANGUAGE AND EYE CONTACT

Did you look at your audience most of the time? Yes, but not much.

Did you read from your notes? No, I don't .

Did you do any movement to hold the attention of your audience? Yes I describe the pictures .

STRUCTURE

Did you organize your ideas in orde of importance? Yes, i did.

did you use discourse markers to make your ideas more clear?  Yes, I did.

Which ones?

CONTENT

Did you introduce interessting information to your aduience? Yes, I did.

Did you lool up information facts ideas in the internet, books? Yes, I look up information in the internet

Was your information more superficial or more detailed andd original? Yes, It's detailed but not much

LANGUAGE

Did you check your grammar?

did you use rich/new vocabulary looking up the dictionari? Not much

PRONUNCIATION

Did you know how to pronounce all your words? Yes, I did

Did you change your tone of voice or use a monotone all the time? Not much

SELF-EVALUATION

You are your teacher! What mard kid you get? 7