Writing Unit 1: The 2000 decade

The two-thousands was a decade that people started to browse the web; there started to be smartphones, like iphone mobiles or nexus mobiles and social networks like facebook or twitter. There were a good times but at the end of the decade started to be the financial crisis.

In two thousand new musical groups appeared as "The Black Eyed Peas" and "Coldplay", but it is stopped giving importance to musicians and the music began to be published by DJs such as "David Guetta" or "DJ Tiesto ". Finally also appeared new idols such as "Justin Bieber" or "Lady Gaga". In cinemas Harry Potter was a big hit. There were seven Harry Potter films between 2001 and 2010. Fashions were different in the style “looking for comfort”.

By the end of the decade, the world went into a financial crisis. But Inventions such as the smartphones, gps, tablets changed people’s lives. There were a lot of memorable events on the 2000s decade, but globalization was "the greatest event" in the decade.

Speaking Dialogue Unit 1: How To: Talk about events in the past

Ferran: Did i ever tell you about my wedding?
Jordi: No, when was that?
Ferran: Oh, it was sixty years ago now, i've got some photos.
Jordi: Oh, i can see? Where there many people there?
Ferran: Oh yest there were a thousand of us.
Jordi: Did you have a good time?
Ferran: Yes we did. We all had a great time. The best bit was at the beginning of the day.
Jordi:What happened then?
Ferran:I was with my friends drinking and smoking.
Jordi:That sounds great!!!

Observation of my oral presentation

You can see the "Power point" here


Did you use any resources?
Yes i use a power point.

Were the resources relevant and atractive?
I think that the topic of that oral presentation is boring for the audience because they are not interested about my summer holidays.

Did you show/talk about the photos to the audience?
No i didn't because i couldn't repeat this oral presentation

Did you look at your audience most of the time?
Yes i looked the audience most time.

Did you read from your notes?
Yes because i was nervous and i couldn't repeat this oral presentation.

Did you do any gestures/movement to hold the attention of your audience?
Yes i moved the paper up and down

Did you organize your ideas in order of importance?
Yes, firstly i spoke about the most boring thinks and finally the most interesting thinks.

Did you use discourse makers to make your ideas more clear?
Yes of course i used makers for make my ideas more clear.
Which ones?

Did you introduce interesting information to your audience?Maybe yes maybe no, depends on the audience

Did you look up informations/facts/ideas in the internet/books? Yes i went to the library to find information about my summer holidays.

Was your information more superficial or more detailed and original? In the library firstly i found an encyclopedia about my summer holidays but i thought that there was too much information. So the information was superficial.

Did you check your grammar?
Yes i think that i chaeck my grammar about ten times

Did you use rich/new vocabulary looking up the dictionary?
yes i look in the dictionary about the word 'manifestation' and yes it's a accepted word, you can look for it http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/manifestation?s=t

Did you use sentence linkers? Yes, of course.

Did you use fillers? No but i used to think that i must use it

Writing about oral presentation: my summer holidays

Hello my name’s Jordi and now I'm going to explain my summer holidays. Firstly I'm going to talk about when I was in Banyolas where I met every day with my friends, then I'm going to talk about when I went with my family to Andorra and the Pyrenees and finally I'm going to talk about the ‘protest’ of 11th of September of Catalonia new state in Europe.

In the last summer holidays I didn’t travel a lot, but in the places where I have been I enjoyed it a lot. Firstly i stayed in Banyoles one month, where I started to do my homework and met with my friends every day, in this first month I didn’t do something special but some days I went to the beach, platja d’aro, Calella de Palafrugell and other cities in front of the beach. In this first month my parents forced me to watch some movies in English and I was in some English forums for learn to speak the language. Because I think that’s easy to learn how to write a language but it’s difficult to speak it and understand it instantly.

After that I went with my parents to visit my grands who lives in the Pallars Sobirà and I was with them one week helping my uncle with the farm and the orchard, seriously I hate wake up early for feed the pigs and then stay all the morning harvesting my tomatoes. This is why my uncle told me that I had to study. After this strange week i went to Andorra to go shopping, visit all the country and have a good time in Caldea. Seriously I was impressed about the new restaurants in Andorra.

Finally I return to Banyoles to prepare for school, but the last day of my summer holidays I was in Barcelona in the biggest manifestation that took Barcelona. The manifestation was about Catalonia new state in Europe. I was in that manifestation because I'm sick of the Spanish insulting us and stole us saying that is charity. I think that now is the time to say goodbye to
Spain.


All in all didn’t travel a lot in this “short” holidays but i enjoyed it a lot. Thank you for listening!!!