ORAL PRESENTATION ABOUT MY RESEARCH PROJECT

The 24th of January I did an oral presentation about my Research Project, called The music and its role in education. Now I’m going to comment it a little bit.

First of all, I think the recourses that I used were fine: I tried to do the Prezi as visual and dynamic as possible, and I also put three short videos. About the body language, I tried to look at the audience as much as possible, not to read from my notes and make gestures and movements to keep everyone’s attention.

About the structure, I think I organized the presentation well; I did a brief introduction and a conclusion and I used connectors and markers. I also think the content was good: I tried to summarize and keep the main ideas of my Research Project to make it as interesting as possible.

In my opinion, the language I used was correct. I don’t think I made too many mistakes, and the ones I did I tried to correct them fast. Of course, I’m not perfect and I could do it better. I was a bit nervous, so that’s one of the reasons I was mistaken sometimes. About the pronunciation, I think it was good, but I’m sure my teacher found some mistakes; I still have so much to learn.

So, in conclusion, I think I did a good presentation, although I can always improve.

LOVE SONG

CALIFORNIA KING BED, BY RIHANNA

LYRICS IN ENGLISH 

Chest to chest, nose to nose
Palm to palm, we were always just that close
Wrist to wrist, toe to toe
Lips that felt just like the inside of a rose

So how come when I reach out my finger
It feels like more than distance between us?
In this California king bed
We're ten thousand miles apart
I've been California wishing on these stars
For your heart on me, my California king

Eye to eye, cheek to cheek
Side by side, you were sleeping next to me
Arm in arm, dusk to dawn with the curtains drawn
And a little last night on these sheets

So how come when I reach out my fingers
It seems like more than distance between us?
In this California king bedWe're ten thousand miles apart
I've been California wishing on these stars
For your heart on me, my California king

Just when I felt like giving up on us
You turned around and gave me one last touch
That made everything feel better
And even then my eyes got wetter
So confused wanna ask you if you love me
But I don't wanna seem so weak
Maybe I've been California dreaming

In this California king bed
We're ten thousand miles apart
I've been California wishing on these stars
For your heart on me, my California king
My California king

My California king
In this California king bed
We're ten thousand miles apart
I've been California wishing on these stars
For your heart on me, my California king


LYRICS IN SPANISH

Pecho con pecho, nariz con nariz
Palma con palma, nosotros siempre estuvimos así de cercaÇ
Muñeca con muñeca, pie con pie
Labios que se sentían como el interior de una rosa

¿Entonces cómo es que cuando extiendo mis dedos siento
Como si hubiese algo más que distancia entre nosotros?
En esta gran cama de California
Estamos a 10,000 millas de distancia
He estado pidiéndole a las estrellas, al estilo de California
Para que tu corazón sea para mi, mi rey de California

Ojo con ojo, mejilla con mejilla
Lado a lado, tú dormías junto a mí
Brazo con brazo, desde el crepúsculo hasta el amanecer
Con las cortinas cerradas y un poquito de anoche en estas sábanas

¿Entonces cómo es que cuando extiendo mis dedos siento
Como si hubiese algo más que distancia entre nosotros?
En esta gran cama de California
Estamos a 10,000 millas de distancia
He estado pidiéndole a las estrellas, al estilo de California
Para que tu corazón sea para mi, mi rey de California

Justo cuando sentía que renunciaría a nosotros
Tú te giraste y me diste una última caricia
Que me hizo sentir que todo estaba mejor
Y aún entonces, mis ojos se humedecieron más
Estoy muy confundida, quiero preguntarte si me amas
Pero no quiero parecer tan débil
Tal vez he estado soñando al estilo de California

En esta gran cama de California
Estamos a 10,000 millas de distancia
He estado pidiéndole a las estrellas, al estilo de California
Para que tu corazón sea para mi, mi rey de California

Mi rey de California

In this song, I don't really know what kind of love is. The song is about a girl who remembers her nights in California with a boy, when they were loving each other. She knows that his love wasn't pure, I mean, it was like fake love. She felt like they're not perfect for each other.

I don't know exactly why I feel so identified with this song. When I was little I loved this song but I didn't understand what the song was saying. This summer I listened to this song again and I felt so identified with it because I had lived a experience that it more or less fits with the song. And that's why I have chosen this song.

MY WORLD

WINTER DAYS 

Do you love these days when it's so cold outside and you're in home with a cup of hot chocolate watching a movie? Yes, I think everybody loves this. 

The last week it has been so cold and, on Saturday it also snowed a little! Unfortunately, the snow didn't last enough and it doesn't stay at the ground. Nevermind, what I'm saying is that I love the cold days if I stay at home. This weekend it was like that. In Saturday morning I played a basketball match (that my team and I won) and the rest of the day I stayed at home. I watched an episode of American Horror Story in my bed with my Colacao and my blanket and it was so perfect!


These are my favorite days in winter. But, to be totally perfect, I need a boyfriend.

Also, one of my favourite parts of the winter (when I'm at home) it's going to sleep. I mean, these super cold days that you have to put 2 thick blankets to stay comfortable at your bed. And, in that moment when your bed is warm is totally perfect. And it's more perfect if you read a book. Call me weird but I love reading good books at night in my bed.

And when you wake up and it's saturday and you know that you can stay in bed for a few minutes more... Just Per-fect.

LOVE MOVIE

THE LAST SONG

The Last Song is an american movie directed by Julie Anne Robinson and protagonized by Miley Cyrus and Liam Hemsworth. It's based on the Nicholas Sparks' book The Last Song.

This movie is about a girl, Ronnie, who come at her father's house to spend the summer. In the village of her father, she meets a boy, Will, and they fall in love. A part from this, the doctors diagnose a stomach cancer to her father.

This movie have pure love and romantic love. Also it has paternal love. About the pure and romantic love, the main characters are totally in love and their love story it's so beautiful. And about the paternal love... At the begining of the movie, Ronnie and her dad doesn't have a good relationship (because, in the past, her parents were divorced and her father moved to North Carolina without her, and leaving Ronnie, her mother and her brother alone), but, during the film, Ronnie understands her father and it's nice and super beautiful to see how their relationship improves! And, at the end of the movie, their relationship is full of love and it's so emotional. The sad part it's when her father dies because of cancer... It's so sad because Ronnie finally has a good relationship with him. But it has a emotional part: when Ronnie, at his funeral, plays with the piano the song that her father wrote for her (and, also, the song was not finished, so Ronnie finished for him).

I liked that movie because the love story between the main characters is very beautiful, and it's not very very very romantic (because, it's like, that types of love stories that it's always happiness and love and more love... No, it's too much for me). Also, there are parts when Ronnie and Will get mad and you understand Ronnie and also you understand Will and then when they forgive each other is so perfect! And I like the movie because, a part from teenagers love, it has a familiar problem that Ronnie have to fix and also dramatic parts (like the cancer). And the end, it's my favourite part. I think that it's the perfect ending for that movie (I don't want to reveal the final part, but I think that I have told to much things about the movie and maybe I said some big spoilers so... Sorry!).



TRAILER:

UNESCO WORLD HERITAGE LIST

Cultural Landscape of Honghe Hani Rice Terraces

The Cultural Landscape of Honghe Hani Rice Terraces was inscribed in the UWHL in 2013 and it's a cultural site. 

The Rice Terraces are in China. They are an spectacular terraces that cascade down the slopes of the Ailao Mountains to the banks of the Hong River. They were created many years ago by the Hani people, who wanted to built a system to bring the water of the mountains to their terraces of rice. Some animals (like buffalos, ducks, fishes...) work on these terraces and, obviously, so do the people. The people adore the sun, moon, mountains, rivers, forests, fire... They live in villages situated between the forests of the top of the mountain and the terraces. Their houses are called "mushroom houses". The people are also in a extraordinary harmony between they and their environment.



I like this site because I found it very impressive and beautiful. It's a nice place where there are nice people. Also, I like it because is in China, and China is far away from here and I like to discover new and distant cultures. I think it's a amazing place and very different from the rest that I've come in my life.

But, the main reason it's because it's very beautiful and if I go there, I'll learn so many new and interesting things and have a great time!

SHAKESPEARE

William Shakespeare was born on Stratford-upon-Avon in 1564, and he died in 1616. He was a poet and a playwright and he's considerate the greatest writer in the english language. His work consists of 38 plays, 154 sonets and some poems.

He married Anne Hathaway when he was 18 and he had 3 children with her. Then, he went to London to work as an actor and a writer. In the Globe Theatre, built in 1599, Shakespeare performed his firsts plays. In 1613 the theatre was destroyed, and in 1997 was built another one similar to the fisrt one.

Shakespeare’s work is still popular today because of these fantastic and quite simply action-packed stories that Shakespeare wrote.

THE MERCHANT OF VENICE:
This is the story of Antonio, who have to return money to a man, and, if he don't return it, he will lose a piece of his body.

HAMLET:

The story is about the dead of Hamlet's father, who is murdered by the man who will marries his mother. Also, everyone wants to see Hamlet dead. He wants to take the revenge.

AS YOU LIKE IT:
A romantic love story about a battle between two evil brothers and 2 good brothers.

HENRY V:
This play is about a famous English king and a famous battle (Agincourt).

NEW YEAR RESOLUTIONS

- Learn languages. This summer I will not get on a job (because I'll be 16 on 16th of August, so I will be too young to work in the firsts months of summer), so I want to improve my english and french by my own.




- Go to the United Kingdom to learn english. This resolution is basically into the first one, because it's basically the same. But, go to the United Kingdom one or two weeks to learn will be so cool and I want to do it. I think it's a very nice experience to see how the english people really are, how they life and improve the english. 

- Getting my motorbike license. I want to do it because, for me, it will mean a lot. I want to do it in summer, because it's when I have free time to study and practice.






- Learn how to cook. I know how to cook basic things, but I want to learn more. This resolution also I want to do it in summer, because my mom doesn't work in summer, and she can teach me how to cook.





- Spend more time with my friends. I see my friends in the high school and, some of them, I often meet them. But I want to spend more time with them, like, all together, because this is the last grade that we'll do together, and I don't want to distance with my friends.





- Be happier. I considerate me a happy person, but I think that all of us can be happier, and that's a thing that it's very important to improve;)

XMAS SPECIAL

HARD SELL AND SOFT SELL:


HARD SELL: is an advertisement or campaign that uses a more direct, forceful, and overt sales message. A hard sell is designed to get a consumer to purchase a good or service in the short-term, rather than evaluate his or her options and potentially decide to wait on the purchase.

SOFT SELL: is an advertisement or campaign that uses a more subtle, casual, or friendly sales message. A soft sell is designed to avoid angering potential customers and pushing them away. Because soft selling is a low-pressure sales technique, it may not result in a sale the first time a product is presented.