This piece of news talks about some investigation into the Mediterranean diet, that can prevent heart attacks and some issues.
As you know, the Mediterranean diet includes a lot of fruit, vegetables and fish, olive oil, legumes and cereal. It also involves small to moderate amounts of alcohol, but these last sentence, we know that, for everybody it's different, nowadays we consume a lot of alcohol.
Personally I think that eat a balanced diet is a good way to protect yourself and be healthy. Everybody should eat a Mediterranean diet. I believe that it’s famous and has a lot of fame, but still if you force American people to eat some vegetables and fish maybe they will go to hellJ
Obviously, if I have to choose my diet, I choose pizza, hamburgers, pasta, some meat and sometimes seafood because I love it. But if I ate fast food every day, I would be crazy!
I don’t have the custom to make resolutions so sometimes I say this year I’ll study a lot but the next day everything is forgotten. Before finishing the year, one day I stayed with Anna and we decided that we had to study some days before, and everything that we didn’t understand we would ask the teacher.
So my resolutions for 2010 are,
Health: As you know, last year I was in the hospital for a lot of days and I was very ill thus I ask for health for my family but especially for me. I know that this is a typical resolution, but sincerely I need it.
Licence car: Secondly, I have my theory part of the licence for the car and I hope to be 18 for my practical part and have my own car. But my birthday is in November and I have to wait some months, with my mother someday I will go to do practices. Ladies and gentleman move your children away!!
Enjoy my life: Like everybody we have to enjoy our life, we’re 17 or 18 and we are in the flower of life. I hope to spend my life with all people that I love, my friends, my colleagues, my family and obviously continue with my boyfriend, but I don’t need to do this resolution because I know and I’m sure that we’ll be together for a long time.
In my oral presentation I used powerpoint as resource with some images, tables and graphics that I did myself. It was focused on the topic that we talked. Doing a powerpoint presentation is good support for the presentation, it’s a way to show your hard work, imagination and be entertaining. I talked for about 5 minutes.
Body language & eye contact
During my oral presentation I tried to look at people. At first I wasn’t nervous but when I started to talk, all my nervousnous came. I still move my hands and arms, but this is not an anecdote for me. I knew my presentation perfectly but we know that the nerves are very bad and I needed to read my notes.
Structure
I think that my presentation and structure was ok; I introduced the topic and I justified why I chose this topic, then I spoke about my objectives. The research project was divided into two parts, firstly I spoke about my theoretical part, but only by paragraphs, later I tried to explain with more details my practical part, because these were an important part for my project. I tried to organize my ideas in order of importance. First of all, I explained the interview that I did following by the vaccination card, compared different doses and ages in the European Union and Spain. The last part was conclusions, then I tried to show everybody a video that I did at Christmas. I introduced a lot of new information to my audience; this project wasn't toinformation but doing a study of the vaccines helped by interviews.
Language
For me this is the most important part, I tried to do the best I could but I also tried to speak simply because if I wrote difficult words it would be useless. But I needed to say specific words related to the topic. Also I tried to use connectors but I was nervous and I spoke very quickly. Pronunciation & Intonation
Like many oral presentations, everybody told me that I spoke very quickly. Now I know that I spoke very quickly because I’m nervous, but when I spoke I didn’t think that I was speaking very quickly, I did unconsciously, it wasn’t my intention. This wasn’t my best oral presentation I know, but I had to do it and I couldn't prepare it well. The pronunciation was comprehensible; my tone of voice was loud.
For all these reasons my final mark, would be an 86%. I think that it’s ok but I need to improve my pronunciation and eye contact.
