Self-assessment of the oral presentation

Name: Marc Rodríguez.
Topic: The poverty.
Presentation (power, creativity)-10%: 1
Structure-10%: 1
Content-40%: 3
Language (grammar)-15%: 1'25
Body language (eye content, reading)-10%: 0'75
Pronunciation-15%: 1'25
New words: dearth, lack, slum, clashes, regardless of and commitment.
FINAL MARK:  8'25

The final note of my oral presentation is an eight point twenty-five.
I think that sometimes, when I am nervous, I read a little my piece of paper and I know the best is look the public because you transmits confidence to them.
My English and my pronunciation I think aren't bad but I have to improve it, because sometimes is difficult for me maintain a conversation in English, also because I am not used to speak in English.
I think it has been one of the best presentations I have done, because with this group it has been a pleasure work with them and we have had a lot of creativity and courage for do this moving topic and presentation (the poverty).

Lord Jim

An early and primary event is the abandonment of a ship in distress by its crew including the young British seaman Jim. He is publicly censured for this action and the novel follows his later attempts at coming to terms with his past.

Jim, a young British seaman, becomes first mate on the Patna, a ship full of pilgrims travelling to Mecca for the hajj. When the ship starts rapidly taking on water and disaster seems imminent, Jim joins his captain and other crew members in abandoning the ship and its passengers. A few days later, they are picked up by a British ship. However, the Patna and its passengers are later also saved, and the reprehensible actions of the crew are exposed. The other participants evade the judicial court of inquiry, leaving Jim to the court alone. The court strips him of his navigation command certificate for his dereliction of duty. Jim is angry with himself, both for his moment of weakness, and for missing an opportunity to be a 'hero'.

My star rating is **good, entertaining.

THE RECYCLING

The society of today is very consumer and therefore, we change with a lot of facility the things we use. In fact, the manufacturers create products of less durability, and all of that, produce a big problem: What do we do with all of this waste?
Is when appears the recycling, although we are more convinced to this, still we lack media and more education for do it.

One of the examples more sad and more visible is the fire of the biggest dumping site of tyres of Europe, in Toledo, Spain.
A fire that it had to be avoided, because the authorities knew this big risk. Now the justice would have to do his duty and punish the responsible, because to all of users collect us a tax for this recycling, besides that we have to pay the consequences of this bad management.

A formal letter

6 Rentador Avenue

Castelló d’Empúries

17486

31th March 2016

Dear Sir or Madam

We are writing because we have queries about the programme called Helping the people of Africa in which we will be volunteering.

First of all, would it be possible for us to find more information about the time table and the accommodation?

Secondly, could you let me know what we need and the vaccines that we have to get before going there?

I look forward to hearing from you.

Yours faithfully

Mr. Guillem Palomeras

Ms. Ballu Touray

Mr. Marc Rodríguez

Our gap year presentation

OUR PRESENTATION, HERE

Venezuela opposition launches protests to oust Maduro

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-35796096

Venezuela's opposition has held a day of protests to launch a new campaign to oust President Nicolas Maduro.
Crowds marched in Caracas and other cities to express their anger at the country's economic crisis and called on the president to stand down.
Mr Maduro led a protest in the capital against the renewal of US sanctions on top Venezuelan officials.
The opposition has made clear it intends to use street power to force Mr Maduro from office.
Saturday's protests marked the launch of Venezuela's opposition coalition, the Democratic Unity Roundtable (MUD). 


It's very sad the situation of Venezuela, first with Chavez and now with Maduro (replica of Chavez). Venezuela is suffering a shortage of democracy that it takes it to the extreme poverty, they haven't the products more basics for the population.
A country that it is a big producer of petroleum, for the leaders fault, it is without any liberty type (repression to the opposition), total insecurity (biggest crime rate of world), etc.
The only thing that they do these leaders is to favour the people that believe in the regimen, they are a big demagogues, but they don't think in the common good.

MY IPAD

I have an Ipad model MC769TY/A version 9.2.1.
This ipad is incredible, it's very usable because it has a lot of functions, it's as a computer but more easy to drive, practical and fast.
I can have all the applications that I want because it has a lot of storage (13 GB), include all of variety of games, social networks and other types of apps, and I love that because in my free time I use it almost always I can.
In conclusion, since I have this Ipad I disconnect with a big facility and it give me a rest in stress situations.

           

RENEWABLE ENERGIES

The renewable energies are very useful because they don't contaminate and they don't depend to other sources that they can to extinguish. In Spain, the wind energy and the solar energy are the most used.

It's curious that in Spain, a country with a lot of solar hours, the State have wanted penalize it with a tax. That's why now it isn't as attractive to home, the use of solar panels, and if they use it are only for the obtention of hot water.

LIVE IN CASTELLÓ D'EMPÚRIES

The truth is that I, about the unique site that I can opine is Castelló d'Empúries, because is the place where I was born and also where I am living all my life, sixteen years.

I think I have had a lot of luck that my parents decided come from Barcelona to live here, because I love the nature and here I am near to the field and the beach.
Also, for me is very important the theme of pollution and noises, and in Castelló doesn't exist that.
To enjoy sports, go with bicycle, play football, running, play tennis, swimming, play padel, etc. I have a lot of facilities for do all these sports.

If any day I have to go out to study or after to work, I will miss a lot this beautiful place.


   

NEYMAR JR

Neymar da Silva Santos Júnior, commonly known as Neymar or Neymar Jr., is a Brazilian professional footballer who plays for the Spanish club F.C.Barcelona, at the moment the best team of the world, and also for the Brazil national team as a forward or winger. Is also the captain of the national team and for a lot of people surely the progenitor of the best player of the world, Lionel Messi.

Neymar signed for the F.C.Barcelona in June 2013. Since this moment the team has won a lot of awards: the king Spanish cup, the Spanish league, the Champions league, etc.

Barça did a fantastic signing. I think that Neymar will be the best football player of the world, he will be the new Messi.

Frankenstein's questions

Should scientific research have limits? Ethics and Genetics.
I think that the scientific research hasn't limits, because while there is life there will new materials, new diseases and others discoveries and so, there will be it new researches scientific.

What is the relationship between human rationality and emotion?
In the human rationality you use your head for to do anything, you apply the reason without have consider your feelings, however in the emotion you guides you from your feelings, your emotions, you use your heart.

What is the role of the individual in relationship to society and the family?
That depends if you are a child, an adult or an ancient. For example, my role in relationship to society and the family is study for have a better future, do my homeworks in the school and at home, pay attention and listen to my parents, behave myself in the society and in the family, etc.

What are the consequences of judging by appearences only? That you don't meet the inside of the person, the character and the personality.
If you judge a person only by appearances you will probably have a very different image or not of the people, we usually judge the people only by the appearances and that is very bad. We have to judge the people by the appearances and especially by the character because maybe you thinks that one person has a bad appearance but maybe has a very good character.

Can you explore these dichotomies in the story?

mortality/immortality: Mortality, the people, friend, family of Frankenstein, etc. and Frankenstein that they died due to the monster and immortality, the monster, because it never died due to it speed, it size and because it was stealthy.
hero/villain: Hero, Frankenstein, because he created a monster and then he gave it life and for that he became famous. Villain, the monster, because it killed a lot of people and because he hadn't family.
reason/emotion: Reason, the monster, because it killed people for take revenge and emotion, Frankenstein, because he cried and he was very sad due to the deaths of members of his family and his friend.
individual/family/society: Individual, the monster, because he hadn't family and friends. Family, Frankenstein, because he had a family and society, all the people that they had family or usual people, humans, that they aren't monsters.
happiness/tragedy: Happiness, Frankenstein because at the beginning he had a family and friends, but tragedy when members of his family or his friend died. Tragedy, the monster, because for it the life hadn't meaning without friends and family, and happiness when it thought that it will have a wife.

 

Bill Gates

The person that I will describe is the famous and rich informatic Bill Gates.
He is interested in read a lot of books and also to play tennis. But principally his hobby is the computing.

He is plump. He is going grey, he is light-skinned, he is clean-shaven, his eyes are blue, he has some wrinkles because he's sixty years old. Also he wears a pair of black glasses and normally he wears suit with a tie.

He is a very intelligent person, sensible, sofisticate, generous, sympathetic, honest, responsible and very had-working. He is very generous and sympathetic because he has given part of his fortune to charitable organizations. Bill Gates is one of the most richest people of the world because he has made a big breakthrough in the technology, he created Microsoft. So, he is proud of his work.

I think that Bill gates is a person very important for the society because he has made a big breakthrough in the technology and now we can do things that before we couldn't.