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sábado, 9 de mayo de 2009

My English 2007-2009

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The English language is one that I like. When I was little, I was going to summer classes and I studied in three weeks everything that is customary to study in three months. So I could go to high school quiet. But when I came to Batxillerat, everything changed. Probably since the 2nd or 3rd ESO we had no discipline with the language. But now, with these two years, despite having so much work, the fact of so many texts that has served me greatly to improve fluency.

The first composition that was the e-mail It’s less complete than the last composition that I’ve made about Toxic Friends and pshychologists. I can see that in the e-mail I don’t use a lot of connectors and varied vocabulary. Conversely, in the writing about the psychologists the vocabulary is more varied and I use more connectors such as "spite of that," Nowadays” ... In the e-mail I use only “well” that is the most comon one. I can also see that before the sentences were long and looked like a twister because I did not have time to put dots or commas, and I had a text with too many subordinate phrases and many verbs, not because I dind’t know how to link to all the sentences.

But now I see that I find easier to write. I write with more fluency, more vocabulary and less excess subordinate phrases. I make good cohesive sentences giving coherence to the text (with Concerning the structure, siemple fact is that now I use better connectors, that allows me to perform better structured texts. The e-mail remains a discourse (all that comes to mind is worded), but in the Toxic Friends, we can see a structure. An introduction, an explanation, an argument and a conclusion.

E-mail: http://sendaportfolio2nb.blogspot.com/2008/09/welcome-e-mail.html

last coposition (Toxic Friends): http://lastportfolioelisenda.blogspot.com/2009/04/pau-writting.html

First and last oral presentation

The first oral presentation That I have chosen I did it in first of batxillerat. I remember I was very nervous. I said many foolish things they did not have much meaning (like sa that I lived there because it was decided by my parents). I also spoke very slowly and I stopped at every moment for what I think I wanted to say.
Often I lost the head that I wanted to explain the content and had to substitute other, so that dind't left me do a right presentation. I put somenthing catalan/swpanish connectors like "bueno", "no sé", "si.." and at the same moment that I was saying that I was thinking that I musn't say it and then I became more nervous.

The last oral presentation I have put is the London Tv Programme. why? Because I think that is the best one that I'have made. I think that now I use more connectors, I'm more confidence with my self and if I have to improvise I'm not afrait to it. Moreover I have evolved in use of vocabulary. Before I had a basic vocabulary. Although I knew to use language well, verbs, verbal timepos, etc, I hadn't vocabulary higher or more extensive.
Therefore, through do oral presentations and have had to look up words, I have learned words, phrases, connectors, appointments ... I'm embarrassed to speak English with people I'm used to dealing in Catalan, however, if I have to talk to foreign people in English not bother me. I enjoy speak in English. I
think that is the reason that I'm more fluent in the oral presentation done in England, because it was no body that knows me and I was blithe, than in the first one in front of the class.

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My English competence in 2009

My best written evidence:

http://senda2nblog3trim.blogspot.com/2009/03/last-term.html

From my last blog of this course I have chosen a composition of the last term where I explain what I want to do in a future and what I have in mind. I think that it's a text that reflects my personality because I show and I share my passions with readers and I think that it is special to give trust because the reader becomes familiar with the writter, in this case, with me. It's a objecetive form to express my questions in an objective way. I explained the two options and I make a little argument in favor of each and I solve the text with a doubt. Perhaps the text is not which has more seize about the extension but it says a lot about me.

It's my best work according to me because it's a fluid text with clear ideas and without a lot subordinates sentences. As I have explained before, I used to make long sentences a little bit awkward (word that I've learnt now), and here is the opposite. This is one of the skills that I have improve this year, make clear sentences. Furthermore I use connectors like "on the other hand", "the contradiction...", "Then"... I Think that it could be a nice text to present to the University because everything that I've said here.

It is a clear and concise text by which I expose what I want to study in college, why I want to study law or psychology, and what is the most probable decision.

My best oral evidence:

http://sendaportfolio2nb.blogspot.com/2009/03/second-oral-presentation.html

Obviously I've chosen the last oral presentation done in London. Why? Because it is the last an it summarizes all the oral work done in class and at home. Also because it is which we haven't done in class and it's nicer to see and which I would choose for if one day I had to send a podcast of myself in an university on in a place that I could need a level of english to work there. it's the work that is more according to me because I felt very calm and comfortable with the surroundings.
Despite being a sample of the level and flow of language, this is a sample of the domain of Movie Maker and this is also the sign of the ability to find ideas to complete and provide attractive presentation.

Furthermore, it can be seen in the oral presentation as some boys who passed through the street were watching and laughing and I was not distracted, I returned the smile while I continued with the presentation. I was very happy to make the presentation on the river side. I love England, London, english language and in this oral presentation all is reflected in.

In short, like everyone, I have evolved in fluency and vocabulary in addition to having more confidence in public speaking, talking with the English language, with foreign people, and I feel confident that my English is good and sufficient to travel. Although obviously we can improve more.

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