I’m Laura Peña. I try to study medicine or something about health. I always had a big dream or perhaps for other people it’s only a small dream or a little intention. Since I was little, I wanted to become a doctor or nurse. I would like to study in Girona, if I have to study a specialty I would like to be pediatrician. I’m very shy and always I’m embarrassed to speak English with other people. I need more confidence but with the time I think that I can.
Friday 27 November 2009
What thing does a song have to have? A songs transmits a lot feelings to me but for this happen the song can't be rock or heavy I prefer a quiet song that speaks about how the singer feels because sometimes you can feel like him, maybe I prefer a love song.
I didn't use to lyrics of the songs before but you get to a point in your life that is not always perfect and sometimes you need to cry or something related to your feeling. The best is to listen to a song that you like. When I listen to a song I feel a lot of emotion that transmits a passion to are sometimes when I read some lyrics or I listen to a song I remember a person and feel sad. The first time that I listen to a song I say: It's a simple song but when you listen once, another time you can understand what the singer is trying to say. For all these reasons I think that listening to music and understanding what the song would like to say is a big passion for those like me.
I recomend listening to some songs when you're sad or you have had a bad day.
Do you have problems with maths? Do you like music? If the answer is yes to both questions, you will be interested to know that, according to several recent experiments, musical training can help your brain understand maths better. Thought these findings are not conclusive, it is clear that both listening to and learning music have beneficial effects on our brain.
The findings of this research have physical base. Children are born with 100 billions unconnected or loosely connected neurons, or nerve cells. Each experience a child has, like seeing people smile or hearing them talk, helps the brain to link the cells. Music may have an influence on the way the neurons connect, stimulating the development of spatial-temporal reasoning skills, which aid in understanding proportion, geometry and other mathematical and scientific concepts. What did the reserch show? An experiment conducted on rats showed that those which had been expose to Mozart ran through a maze faster and made fewer mistakes than those which hadn't. Other experiments, done with pre-school children who were given keyboard lessons, showed how their spatial-temporal skills improved. These findings were supported by a publication in the journal Nature, in May 1996. A group of students were taught music and played musical games involving rhythm and pitch. When compared with students who hadn't received specific music instruction, they not only had better reading skills, but also showed a significant improvement in their maths skills
Though we still don't know exactly how music affects our brains, it is certain that somehow music helps the shape our minds.
FROM A BOOK ( EXAM PRACTISE, UNIT 4)
Write a summary of the text, Use 50 words. Music and the mind talk about recent experiments that are interested in how the music can help our brain. They prove hat listening to and learning music have postive effects. The reason has a physical basis. They would like to study what it shows and for that they did some experiments with rats and pre-schools children. In all the experiments is that there is a good improvment they prove that music helps our brinds.
In our oral presentation we use the power point and some images that we downloaded from the net. It was focused on the topic that we talked. For me, doing a power point is a good supported for the oral presentation, it’s a way to show some images and be interesting and entertaining. About the time, I think it was a little long, but we talked 5 minutes.
Body language & eye contact
During my presentation, I looked to a fixed point, because I was very nervous. I knew perfectly my oral presentation but I was very nervous and sometimes I needed to read my notes. Unlike high oral presentations I haven’t made any gesture. I tried to don’t look at the power point but occasionally I did it. Also I tried to don’t look my notes but I was so nervous I finally I did it.
Structure
I think that the structure was ok; we had an introduction where we explained what the oral presentation was about, why we chose these topics, what we explained and which were ours aims. When we finished explaining the topic, I did a little conclusion and we showed two videos from “family guy” and “the Simpsons”. Basically our aims were that people had a basic Knowledge from each sitcom. Also I finished asking to the audience what sitcom they prefer. We tried to organize our ideas in order; we started with an introduction, describing the main characters, the principal places, some opinions of the experts (controversy) and a small comparison of each sitcom.
Content I guess that we didn’t introduce new information because everybody has watched the Simpsons or family guy. In my opinion, the information that we exposed was extensive and detailed but for understanding the topic we needed to talk about this one otherwise has been a bad oral presentation, we need minimums. When we showed some photos people laughed, and also when we showed videos of family guy.
Language
We use some adjectives to describe the places and the characters, the grammar was correct and we use synonymous and some expressions. But in general we use easy vocabulary (except some words) and simple grammar to describe, and introduce some parts. For example “now Anna is going to talk...” As connectors I use “and, but, also, etc”. Clara told me that I said one “bueno” and I think that some “emm”.. Also I said “for example”.
Pronunciation & Intonation
At first people told me that I spoke very fast. I suppose that was because I was very nervous and I didn’t know what I was saying. While I was doing my oral presentation, I didn’t know that I was speaking too fast, but when I watched the video I was surprise. It wasn’t my intention. Also I think that I spoke with a loud volume. But I think that has been one of my best oral presentations without interruptions or breaks. Before, when I didn’t be sure for something I used to speak softer; now I think it has changed. About my pronunciation, I tried to pronounce correctly each word; before the oral I tried to pronounce the most difficult words, for example: behaviour, although, kidnappings, “pewterscmidt”, “antropomorphized”. For all these reasons, my own result would be an 75,5%. I think it’s ok, but I need to improve the body language & eye contact using fillers and perhaps improving my vocabulary. I’m happy with our power point. Sincerely, I thought that it would has been more wrong.
Hunting farming and pollution are threatening the wildlife on our planet. National parks could be a progress and the protection of the environment.
On the one hand national parks are very important for maintaining a biodiversity. Moreover parks can also play a role in reintroducing some species to an area where they are already extinct. For example the giant panda in China, in general all animals that are in danger extinct. In spite of the destruction of most of their habitat, pandas for example are survive thanks to the creation of this types of areas.
On the other hand plants and animals that life in these types of areas and parks are not totally safe. They have to pressure the people who live around the park. Animals are also in danger from poachers or cars on the roads surrounding the parks.
Clearly, people must help preserve natural habits. National parks are an important way of protecting wildlife.
