Podcast

Oral presentation (III)

Self evaluation.

My oral presentation was horrible.
I think we don’t prepare it well and that's why we came out as expected.

My pronunciation is not good.
The oral presentation should last between the two has lasted only 10 minutes and 4 minutes.

I don’t like the oral presentation.

Oral presentation (II)

Transcription



The animals

The best animals of Australia includes
Monotremes
Marsupials (such as the kangaroo, the koala and wombat)
Birds .
Many plant and animal species became extinct in early human aborigines


Languages

English is the official language of Australia. , English is the only language spoken at home 80% of the Australian population. Also spoken:
Chinese (2.1%)
Italian (1.9%)
Greek (1.4%).
It is believed that about 200 and 300 old Australian languages existed before the first European contact. Only 70 have survived, and 50 are endangered.

Religion


There haven't official state religion. The 2006 census reported that :
68% of Australians
Christians: 26%
Catholics and 19%
Anglicans( no religion). 19%
12% did not respond .
5% were of non-Christian religion.

Education



Education is compulsory throughout Australia, from 6 to 15 years old. Australian education is the eighth best in the wolrd about 58% of Australians between 25 and 64 years have university or vocational qualifications.


Culture

Since 1788, the foundation of culture is culture austrliana anglocelta.
Australian visual arts have a long history, the first cave paintings were the (antepassats). The traditions of (abantpassats) been transmitted orally and are related to the ceremonies and stories of dreams.
Australia has an active tradition of music, ballet and theater, most Arts companies receive public funding through Council of Australian federal governmen.

The oral presentation

DESCRIPTION

David is a great brother of mine. He's very tall, brown-eyed and he's got short, brown hair.
He's really attractive because he is my brother ;).
He's is broad-shouldered.
He is very thin but when it is time to have lunch or dinner he eats a lot.

David seems quite extroverted when you first meet him, but on the inside he's really shy.
He always listens to me.
He is always strong- willed because he has overcome many things.
He's simpathetic with family and with his friends.
Sometimes he's the kind of person who I feel comfortable with.

One thing that I really like about David is that he's never pessimistic, he's always optimist. He's a simple person, he's never two-faced and he always tells me what's on has mind.
Those are good qualities in a brother.

Letter

C/Rentador
IES CASTELLÓ D'EMPÚRIES
01/03/2011

C/ Pont 58
CASTELLÓ D'EMPÚRIES.

Dear Ms. Pintó,

My name is Júlia Costa Rodríguez and I have been student of IES CASTELLÓ D'EMPÚRIES for a long time.

I think that the High School has many positive and many negative points.

First I will talk about the good things, for example:

The High School is good and has a lot of light.
At High School there are many activities for Christmas, I think it's fine to give a prize of students than get good marks.

The Bad things are:

I think it's very cold in the classroom.
I think high school students should participate in activities that are for Christmas, or go to see them.

In conclusion, I think the school has many things to improve



Looking forward to hearing from you
Your sincerely,

Júlia Costa.

News

Advertising watchdog to monitor website words

The extended powers will cover what companies say in Tweets too

How companies talk about themselves on Twitter feeds or Facebook profiles is to be policed like adverts.

From 1 March, the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) gets powers to police the claims companies make on websites and social networks.

The rules cover statements on sites that can be interpreted as marketing, even if they are not in an advert.

Until now, the ASA has only been able to oversee paid-for ads online.

Since 2008, the watchdog has received more than 4,500 complaints concerning text on websites that it could do nothing about.

"These are claims that are very similar to the claims that [the public] are used to seeing in adverts that appear in media like TV, radio, posters and print," ASA chief executive Guy Parker told the BBC.

The ASA said that the new powers would help it tackle a growing number of complaints about the way companies sell themselves on the web.

Misleading words

Extending the UK advertising code to non paid-for statements means that these, like paid-for adverts, must not harm, mislead or offend.

While aimed primarily at sites using the .co.uk domain suffix, the ASA said its powers could also cover .com sites, such as Facebook, if the online space being used was under the control of a UK firm.

However, the transient nature of online content may make the rules difficult to police, according to Vincent-Wayne Mitchell, professor of consumer marketing at London's Cass Business School.

"I could have an advert up on the internet for a week or for an hour, cause widespread confusion, get sales from that, and then withdraw it," he said.

"The only punishment that the ASA has is withdrawal, but I can have that as part of my own marketing strategy," said Professor Mitchell.

Name and shame

User-generated content, such as comments left by customers on a website, will not be covered by the extended powers.

But the ASA said that such content could be examined if a company adopted it and used positive endorsements to advertise.

To encourage firms to comply, the ASA said it would extend a name-and-shame policy which will expose firms that make unsupportable claims.

Further sanctions for offenders could see non-compliant material removed from search engines. The ASA said it might also take out adverts to warn people about companies that do not comply with the code.

I think that monitor twitter and facebook is fine.
Lately, many people find little that can be written up for bad things. These people can see or write bad things on facebook and twitter and no one controls it.
I think I handle these things is fine.

The razzies 2011

RAZZIES 2011 WINNERS ANNOUNCED: THE WORST IN THE MOVIES!

The day before the Oscars, on Saturday, the Razzies were held, celebrating the worst in cinema.

The winner of the Razzie Award was Airbender which took home Worst Director, Worst Movie, Worst Script and Worst 3-D Movie. Plus, actor Jackson Rathbone (Jasper Cullen) took home Worst Actor in both Airbender and Eclipse!

Sex in the City 2, also took home a bunch of Razzies and its actresses got Worst Actress of the Year.

Valentine´s Day also took a beating and its lead (Ashton Kutcer) got an 'award' as did (Jessica Alba) for Worst Actress.

I think that Sex in New York is a great movie and liked it a lot of people.
I also think that the film of Jessica Alba is also a good movie.
These films saw a lot of people don’t understand because they are the worst.