My oral presentation and my own evaluation.

DIALOG:

Hi, I’m Paula De Scheemaeker Cruset and this is my oral presentation and I’m going to talk about Belgium, my father’s country, a lot of my family is there and I love Belgium too.

Structure of my presentation:
First, we’re going to talk about the general characteristics (global situation, climatic temperature, landscape).
Then, the characteristic food (waffles, chocolate, beers, and mussels).
Then we’re gonna see the diferences between the sports here in Spain and there, and finally the political situation (the Walloon people and the Flemish people).

The general characteristics:
Belgium is a country in the middle of Europe; it was created in 1830 when it became independent from Holland.
It has always been a cold region and there it’s always raining and snowing.
The landscape it’s so beautiful, and the most of the houses are made of slate and most of the streets are made of stones. There are so many forests, and it has a cold coast, and because this most of the people there comes here for the warm beach.

Characteristic food:
Waffles: it’s a food that you cannot forget to eat if you go to Belgium. Usually people here know them like “goffres”, and there are a lot of combinations of them (with chocolate, sugar, ice cream, strawberries...)

- Chocolate: the best chocolate you can eat is in Belgium, usually pralines. The most important companies of Belgium chocolate are Leonidas and Neuhaus.

- Beer: There are 250 types of diferent Belgian beers, and the origins are with the friars in the Middle Age. In the winter, the companies make special beers. Ex: Judas, Duvel, Leffe...

- Mussels: The most classic way to eat Belgian mussels is “moulés mariniere”, and it’s presented with white wine.

- Sports:
Here in Spain most of the sports are outside, and because in Belgium it’s very cold some of them are inside. Two examples of them are ice skating and ice hockey.

The political situation:
Belgium is separated in two parts: Wallonia Land (the people speak French), and Flanders Land (there is the capital Brussels, and they speak Nederlands and Deutch).
In Belgium there are three oficial languages: German, Dutch, and French.

THANKS FOR LISTENING!!

Paulaa

Now it’s time to improve for next presentation.Write down a LITERAL TRANSCRIPTION of your presentation.
Well... My presentation was going to be better, but I’m a human and I got nervous, and my words didn’t came out of my mouth. But, anyway, I think that it has been satisfactory if you know that it’s the first of this year.

LANGUAGE
Is your grammar correct, complex? (verbs, word order, tenses learnt inclass)? YES

Is your vocabulary rich and varied (synonyms, idioms, phrasal verbs,expressions, topic-related vocabulary…)? NO

Do you use sentence linkers? (and, but, moreover, also, furthermore,although, however…) MEDIUM

Do you use pause fillers? (well, you know, for example, one second,repeating a word…) MEDIUM

STRUCTURE
Do you organize your ideas in order of importance? YES
Do you use discourse markers to make your ideas more clear? (First, then, secondly, on the one hand, on the other, finally…) YES

All my mistakes are into the language, into the expression.

Are you a teacher? Your note! 8'5

Paula