Oral presentation: Egypt

NAME: Sònia Ibañez Soussi

TOPIC: Egypt

PRESENTATION 10 %

• Do you use any resources: powerpoint, video, images, sound, realmaterial…?Are the resources relevant and attractive and focused on the topic?Do they support your presentation?Is the timing 5-7 minutes?

-Yes, in my oral presentation I used a powerpoint and I think it was relevant, attractive and it focused on the topic, and the timing of my oral presentation was 5 minutes.

BODY LANGUAGE AND EYE CONTACT 10%

• Are you looking at your audience most of the time?Are you reading occasionally from your notes?Are you doing any gestures / movement to hold the attention of theaudience?

-Yes, I was looking at my audience but I also look at my teacher. When I was doing my oral presentation I didn’t look from my notes all the time, I only look on it when I was saying the typical dishes because they are strange for me. The movements I did were to show to the audience where is Egypt situated and the evolution of its flag.

STRUCTURE 10%

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

-More or less. At the beginning of mi presentation I did a little introduction of what I was going to do.

CONTENT 30%

• Do you introduce interesting, NEW information to your audience?Is your information detailed and clear? Do you give / show examples?Is your information copied from a source or is it original?Did you look up information/facts/ideas in the Internet/books…?

-When I was preparing my oral presentation, first of all I looked for information about Egypt, then I did a summary of the most important things, and finally I organized the information which were detailed and clear.

lANGUAGE 20%

• Is your grammar correct, complex? (verbs, word order, tenses learnt inclass)?Is your vocabulary rich and varied (synonyms, idioms, phrasal verbs,expressions, topic-related vocabulary…)?Do you use sentence linkers? (and, but, moreover, also, furthermore,although, however…)Do you use pause fillers? (well, you know, for example, one second,repeating a word…).

-My grammar was correct, but some of the words (especially adjectives) I said wasn’t correct, for example in my notes I wrote the adjective hot which is correct, but when I was talking I said hots which is not correct because the adjectives have not plural.

PRONUNCIATION & INTONATION 10&%

• Do you know how to pronounce all your words?Did you check the pronunciation with a dictionary, a classmate or theteacher?Do you change your tone of voice or use a monotone tone all the time?Did you speed in a fluid continuum or with breaks and interruptions?

-I checked the pronunciation of some words but not all of them,that’s for these reason why I didn’t pronounce Although well.

SELF-EVALUATION 10%

• Now it’s time to improve for next presentation.Write down a LITERAL TRANSCRIPTION of your presentation.Check your language and structure.
  Can you correct your mistakes? You are your teacher! What mark did you get?

• EGYPT
• INTRODUCTION
  Good afternoon everybody, as all you know my name is Sònia and today I’m
  going to talk about Egypt. First of all, I’m going to talk about Egypt’s
  geography, secondly I’m going to talk about its flag, then about the food and
  drink, and finally about places you can visit if you ever travel to Egypt.
• GEOGRAPHY
  Egypt is located in northeastern of Africa and its capital is El Cairo.
  The official
  language in Egypt is Arabic; although in Egyptian schools also teach English and French.
  Egypt is in the subtropical zone. Summers are hot and dry and winters are mild andstable.
• FLAG: These are the flags from Egypt from the oldest to the newest and more recent nowadays.
• FOOD AND DRINK...

*Some of the typical dishes of Egypt are:
-BABAGANNUJ SALAD
-CHICKEN KESHK
-KAMMUNEYA
-KIBBEH
-BASTERMA
-SAMBOUSEK
-HUMMUS BI TAHINA

*And some of the typical desserts of Egypt are:
- om ali
-baklava
Things
to visit...

• PLACES TO VISIT...
  *If you ever visit Egypt these are some of the most important places you should not forget to visit:
  -PYRAMIDS OF GIZA
  -THE RIVER NILE, which is the 2nd largest river in the world.
  TEMPLE OF KARNAK
  THE CITY OF ALEXANDRIA
  
• And that's all. I hope you have enjoyed it.
• Do you have any questions?