Introduction
Good morning we are Alba and Judith and now we will explain different things about Italy. Well, first we wanted to talk about New York but we thought that was a bad idea because it's very global, and finally we decided to talk about Italy, for the simple reason that we were there last year for the end of term trip.
Ok, to begin we will talk about:
• The geographical situation of this country.
• Flag
• The climate
• The languages
• Traditions
• Food
• Interesting places
Map
In this picture you can see Italy, it is boot-shaped. On the right side is the Adriatic sea, on the left side is Mediterranean sea. In this country we can find the microstates of Vatican City and San Marino. The capital of this beautiful country is Roma!!
Flag
The colours of the Italian flag represent several things. Green colour represents the hope for an union of the country. On the other hand, white colour represents the Alps, and finally red colour represents the blood of the dead who died defending their nation.
Climate
In general the climate of this country is tempered, in the north the weather is colder than the south, because at the north there are mountains and in winter snow. In the south is hottest because there is coast.
Language
The most important language in here is Italian, but there are a lot of different languages for example:
-Occitan
-Tuscan
-Southem
Traditions
The most traditional dance is the tarantella. This dance is very active because you can’t stop dancing, as a result of you can’t move your legs. Tarantella from the south of Italy although this dance originated from Argentina.
The night of the end of year is called San Silvestre and the first day is called Capo Danno. A habit of this tradition that can't miss are lentils, this is equivalent to the twelve grapes. They say that if you eat a plate of lentils at midnight, you have a lot of money next year.
Another tradition is wear red lingerie on New Year's Eve.
Food
The Italian food is Mediterranean with a special aroma and flavor. The traditional food, as you know is pasta, for example: ravioles, fettuccinis, spagetty... acompanied by sauces. Another of their specialities food is pizza.
On the one hand, the common desserts are the tiramisu, panna cotta, ricotta tart and in particular the famous ice cream! This ice cream is the most famous because the ice-cream man have retained this office as a family tradition.
Interesting places
Italy have got a lot of cultural sites, the most important we visited were:
– The Roman coliseum
– The Fontana Di trevi
– Sant Pedro's dome
– The amphitheater
– the Tower of Pisa
Conclusions
In short, this presentation wasn’t very hard because we had been there before. However, there isn't anymore accurate information, in Internet there are global information.
We have had a little problem with this country because we thought this country had the English language, but it isn’t and we have realized later.
We hope you haven't had a very bad time hearing us and if are there any questions you can ask us.
EVALUATION OF PRESENTATION
Presentation (10%)
We have used in our presentation different digital tools, for example: imagies and little information included in the prezi, that supports the topic of our presentation, Italy. In the other hand, the time of the presentation I think that, it was good because the presentation ocupied seven minutes approximately and the content was well. (10%)
Body language and eye contact (10%)
We tried to look the audience the long time as possible, but nerves betrayed us some and, sometimes we looked the paper to remember some things, but even so I think that, it wasn't all bad. In some of our interventions, we point out some things of imagies. (7%)
Structure (10%)
In our presentation, we follow a logical structure. The introduction, the global information and finaly the conclusions. The global information follow a logical structure too, of less important to more. The sentences were shorts and easy to understand, and we used conectors to link sentences and phrases.
The different parts were separated well, the introduction, where we comented and introduce the topic; the global information, where we inform us about different topics of interes from Italy; and finaly, the conclusions where we give our opinion and the problems of this work. (10%)
Content (40%)
The objective of this work was introduce and teach new information about Italy. I think that this objective was fulfilled. The images helped us understand the information and the message is clear. (30%)
Language (20%)
In our presentation the vocabulary was good and variated, we use some connecors that have given wealth and fluency to text. The grammar was the most correct that we could. (15%)
Pronunciation and intonation (10%)
The pronuntiation and the entonation have been good. We made some mistakes, but it's normal, oral presentation can't be perfect. We did the best we could. (6%)
FINAL MARK 78%
We will try to control nerves and we be more confident with us and with our work.
