divendres, 5 de març del 2010

ORAL PRESENTATION

TRANSCRIPTION

Geography

The continent of Australia, with the island state of Tasmania, is approximately equal in area to the United States.

Mountain ranges run from north to south along the east coast,. The western half of the continent is occupied by a desert . The Great Barrier Reef, extending about 2,000 km,. The island of Tasmania 67,800 km is off the southeast coast.

Government

Democracy. Symbolic executive power is vested in the British monarch, who is represented throughout Australia by the governor-general.

History

The first inhabitants of Australia were the aborigines.

Today about 350,000 Aborigines live in Australia.

Dutch, Portuguese and Spanish ships sighted Australia in the 17th century.

Free settlers and former prisoners established six colonies: New South Wales (1786), Tasmania (1825), Western Australia (1829), South Australia (1834), Victoria (1851) and Queensland (1859).

Several gold rush attracted settlers, as well as the extraction of other minerals. Sheep farming and grain soon became important economic enterprises. The six colonies became states in 1901 and federated in the Commonwealth of Australia with a constitution that incorporated British parliamentary U.S. federal and traditions.

Australia became known for its liberal legislation: free and compulsory education, protected trade unionism with industrial conciliation and arbitration, the secret ballot, women's suffrage, maternity benefits and sickness and old age pensions.

The most populous and vital Australian cities include:

- Sydney

- Melbourne

- Brisbane

- Perth

- Adelaide

Australian climate


The climate of Australia remains best between spring and autumn.

Rains very little.

Language in-use at Australia


Australia aborigines speak in English but not in a typical traditional way, they twist and shorten the language according to their convenience. The colloquial Australian-English uses abbreviations like Aussie for Australian, Brolly for umbrella, Chook for chicken, Damper for bread, Ta for thank you and so on.


Australian currency

In currency Australian dollar AUD called. Tourists to travel in Australia may withdraw the necessary amounts of any cash machines.

Australia, a great tourist destination to visit and enjoy your holiday, enriched with varied cultural and social meanings.

Fauna and flora

There are a lot of strange animals.
The best known animals are the kangaroo, koala, platypus, koala and the spiny anteater.

Among the marsupials of Australia are the animals grazing, tree climbers, amphibians, ground burrowing animals.

There are about 50 species of kangaroo.

There are 55 species of parrots in Australia, and birds are as numerous as they are colored.

We have more species of venonous snakes than any other continent and our spiders are also among the most venonous.

Australia has 20,000 species of plants, including living fossils such as the cycad palm tree and grass, wildflowers and bright as the Waratah, Sturt's Desert Pea, flower cones of Banksia trees, and the leg of
red and green kangaroo.

The continent has 700 species of acacia, and 1,200 species of the family Myrtaceae, including Eucalyptus trees or gums. Wild flowers turn grassland areas and dry savannas of Australia into carpets of color after the rain. Native forests are limited mainly to the wetter coastal districts and forests are mainly in Queensland.

Eucalyptus actually occupy the continent from the snow country south of the northern tropics, salt-laden river banks and the harsh deserts. Some species of embracing the land, while others reach to the sky and samples of more than 150 feet have been recorded.

AUTOEVALUATION

For me, our presentation are good because we explain very good but we read a lot and are too nervious.

Our powerpoint is very good.

Our mark is 5

FORMAL LETTER

Avgda Pau Casals 32
C/rentador 23
Castelló d'Empúries
Girona


Dear head teacher,
I'm studying first of batchillerat at IES Castelló d'Empúries. I'm writing this letter because I'd like to talk about the new timetable.
On the one hand, I agree with a week of holidays but I don't agree with the idea of us starting 1st of Setember because the holidays are too short.
In my experience, I wouldn't change this timetable because it is better.
Yours faithfully
Josep Riera

PIRATES OF SOMALIA


Today, two spanish ships have been attacked by the pirates of somalia and have used the weapon to scare them.
The crews are perfect but the crew members are scared.
The assaults have been produced today, one to 350 miles of the coast of kenya.
Later another ship has been attacked but it has defended very well.
It could have been a tragedy it has remained in anecdote.

TITANIC


I like this film because it treats of the love between two persons.
One ship goes out of inglaterra to go to United States.
In the trip two persons fall in love but his love is clandestine because the woman is married and her husband is very bad person.
During the movie they tride to hide to be united.
It has a very sad end because the ship strikes with a iceberg and the ship sinks.The men dies but the woman survive.

MY HOBBIES

I have a lot of hobbies, but the bests are:
- Football: I practice this sport since I was 7 years but this year I don't play it because batxillerat is too difficult.
- Basketball: I love this sport but I don't practice this sport because I'm very because I'm very low.
- Swimming: I love swimming but now I don't practice this sport because it is very cold and the overcast swimming pools are very expensive.
My best hobbie is the music because I love to sing. My best singer is melendi, a spanish singer.

MY TRIP TO SAN SEBASTIAN


I was to San Sebastian two years ago. I was with my stepfather and my mother. I think that this country is a paradise because is very beautiful. In the mornings I went to the beach and in the afternoon I went to shopping. The food of “País Vasc” is very good.
Before the trip I was thinking that “País Vasc” it was a sheet because “etarras” live there but I was wrong.
Finally I want to say that You travel to the “País Vasc” because it is a paradise and You will not repent.

CHILEAN EARTHQUAKE


The 2010 Chilean earthquake occurred off the coast of the Maule Region of Chile on February 27, 2010, at 03:34 local, rating a magnitude of 8.8 .
The epicenter of the earthquake was offshore from the Maule Region, approximately 8 115 km northeast of Chile's second largest city, Concepción.
There has died a whole of eight hundred persons and the worst damages have been produced in the VIIth of Maule.
After the earthquake, It was produced a tsunami, wich, also produced a lot of deads