sábado, 15 de noviembre de 2008

OBSERVATION OF MY ORAL PRESENTATION

1- watch your presentation and answer the following questions:

NAME & TOPIC: The life in 19th century and it's exemple in the film(of Pride & Prejudice).

Presentation:
-Did you use any resources? Were the recources elegant and attractive? Yes, we use the power point which I tink that make more elegant the presentation.

Body lenguage and eye contact:
-Did you look at your audience most of the time? I have been looking at the audience almost all the time.
-Did you read from your notes? Sometimes.
-Did you do any gestures/movement to hold the attention of your audience? Yes, I did some gestures with the hands according with what I was saying.

Structure:
-Did you organize your ideas in order of importance? Yes, first the important information, and after the examples.
-Did you use discourse markers to make your ideas more clear? Yes: In relation with the previous thing, but, and, in general, also, normally, the second topic, the next topic.

Content:
-Did you introduce interesting, NEW information to your audience? Yes, I introduce things of the century that they can not underestand and for this reason after they ask me it, for exemple the work in relation with nowadays.
-Did you look up information/facts/ideas in the internet/books...? Yes, the majority of information is of internet.
-Was your information more superficial or more detailed and original? Well, the our topic was really extensive and we explained the most important to underestand the life in this century, but we said concret things that are curious and original like the food that they eat.

Language:
-Did you use check your grammar? Yes, some irregular verb and times that I didn't remember.
-Did you use rich vocabulary looking up the dictionary? Yes, new words like bred (criada), horses cart (carro de cavalls), domestic devices (aparells domestics), top hats (sombrero de copa), etc.
-Did you use sentences linkers? Yes!(I put examples in a previous question: also, normally, but...).
-Did you use fillers? Yes!(I put examples in a previous question: well, for example...)

Pronunciation & Intonation:
-Did you know how to pronunce all your words? Did you ckeck a pronuntiation with a dictionary, a classmate, or a teacher? Yes I know, because I practise the pronuntiation with a english teacher before.
-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? Yes, sometimes I change my tone. Also, I have had some interruption, of course!

Self-evaluation:
-You are your teacher! what mark did you get? Sincerely, a 7 or 8!


2- Now it's time to improve for next presentation. Write down a literal transcription of your presentation.
Check your Language and Structure. Can you correct your mistakes?

Hello class! I'm Daniel and he's Eudald, and today we will explain the life in 19th century and it's exemples in the film. Possible aspects: jobs, technology, housing, clothes...

(Eudald)

Wel, the technology:
In relation with the previous thing, the industrial revolution was still in development and there are machines that made more easy the work.
But in the houses there isn't a technology as the electricity, domestic devices, cars, and all the commodities that we can have nowadays(/today:in the moment I corrected).
In the film we can see that the family Bennet have candles and not light bulb, and they use horses cart to move.
Hear you can see a horses cart of the 19th century.

(...)

Housing:
In general, the houses of 19th century were big, with a lot of rooms and windows, one only for the lecture, the ceilling was high, and normally was plenty of decoration: paintings, furniture, etc.(bad pronunciation of two words)
Also, there were gardens in front of the entrance with a lot of plants or trees.
But that could be different deppending on the propiety house anies of poor people, like te family Bennet, or rich people that had a lot of luxury, having more bedrooms and breds and bigger gardens.
We can see in the Charlote's house and the information that say Mr. Collins when tehy arrive to the house that the windows was expensive, they have one bred for person...(some interruptions)
Normally, this houses were in the fields or around the cities, but in the cities there were apartments, normally smalls, where the poor(break)people lives and who worked in the factories.

(...)

The clothing:
In the 19th century the clothes were different: apart from cotton shirts, the men's clothes were trausers, waistcoats and coats/jacket. The people usually wore hats. The wealthy men wore top hats, like Mr Darcy. The people... The middle class men wore bowler hats and working men wore cloth caps like the breds of the house of Bennets.
The women wore light dresses(bad pronunciation), and broad skirts. Also, the women started wearing underwear, "roba interior".

(...)


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