1. My English 2007-2009

• About written document

- The first writing: http://laia26sportfolio.blogspot.com/2008/02/my-description.html
- The last writing: http://laia2bportfolio.blogspot.com/2009/04/writing.html

In my first writing I presented a little bit myself and, in the last one, I had to write about the influence of psychologists on our society as an opinion essay. Of course, it has been an improvement with my English expression, vocabulary, grammar and fluency.
To analyse them I’ll start with the structure and the content:
The content isn’t as mature as now because if I will have to write again a presentation of myself I will do it very different, moreover I didn’t structure the writing because I divided it in paragraphs but not at all, and I also mixted the information. Furthermore, in the first composition I didn’t use connectors, I only used a few pronouns (where…) and I repeated some words during the writing (now, maybe I do it too but less than before) and using short sentences. Nowadays, the things have changed in concretely things, for example I can do a structured writing, as the last one (about the influence psychologists), with its paragraphs, its connectors to make the composition in order and organized, its relative clauses and give a conclusion.
And finally, about the language and the vocabulary I can say that I’ve learnt more words to use and control a little more the verbs and the modal verbs, and the structure of the sentences. For example, in the first writing I wrote short sentences with repeated words, and now I’m able to use some synonyms of some words and use relative clauses to make the sentence longer…
As I said before, I think I’ve improved my English language practising to write compositions and thanks the grammar taught in class.

• About the oral presetation:

- The first oral presentation: I didn’t post the first one because we haven’t got the portfolio yet. We started in second term.
-The last oral presentation: http://laia2bportfolio.blogspot.com/2009/03/2nd-oral-presentation.html

The first oral presentation we had to do in first of batxillerat we had to do it alone, without a partner and the topic could be about ourselves, a trip we had done, talk about our hobbies… I chose, at first, introduce myself and then tell my classmates the trip I did with my family in Disney Land Paris in 2003. So, I knew very well the topic to be able to tell it them but, of course, I had to prepared it a lot at home.
Between both presentations I can see a difference with the vocabulary, the grammar, the fluency and the construction of the sentences, but not of the structure because it was well: it had an introduction, a body and a conclusion with some connectors as “at first, then, in conclusion…”.
About the vocabulary and the grammar, I can say that I’ve improve because I’ve correct some mistakes I did before (although I do mistakes still!!), I’m able to use a vocabulary and grammar more varied doing sentences longer and more complex sentences (as relative clauses). The thing I follow doing in the oral presentations is to speak with a calm voice and slowly, it hasn’t changed… Either it had changed my nervous before to do it, but it is my personality…I hope to lost them in few time!! An other aspect that it hasn’t changed, well..it has changed but I think a little, it is the pronunciation.
In general, I think I’ve improved in all, especially the fluency. And now it’s the time to practice and practice because we don’t forget it, concretely because we improve it more!!

2. My English competence in 2009

• My best oral evidence:

http://laia2bportfolio.blogspot.com/2008/11/1st-oral-presentation.html
About all my oral evidence of this course I’ve chosen the first one oral presentation as the best one. It was about the book we had to read the first term: Pride & Prejudice of Jane Austen, and I did it with a partner, Elisenda.
The oral presentation in London was original, I learn more things about the city and it was funny, but I think the Pride & Prejudice oral presentation is the best I’ve done. It is because, apart it was longer than the London one, it was easer for me to tell about a book I had read because you can remember what you have to say more than an information that you have to study. Also, I’ve chosen it because its topic.
In it we talked about the important moments that Elizabeth, the main character of the novel, and Mr. Darce had during the romantic novel and how their love were growing. The presentation was good structured because we showed the information in order using some connectors (moreover, although, furthermore…) and discourse markers (first, the second, the last, finally…) to make the presentation more fluency and to give the ideas more organized to the audience; and it also was attractive because of its pictures of the characters, the ambient music and some sentences characters said in the book or in the film.
Moreover, I think we could introduce some little things about the feelings between both loved characters than maybe someone hadn’t paid attention when he had been reading the book. And to finally my reasons why I’ve chosen this presentation I want to say that doing it I learnt new things about the story of the novel’s characters that I hadn’t understood before and I also learnt new vocabulary that I had to check in the dictionary.

• My best written evidence:

http://laia2bportfolio.blogspot.com/2009/03/writing-of-shepherd.html
Between all my writings (blog, portfolio, forum...) I didn’t know which of them choose but as the knowledge of the idiom improve through the long time and the English classes; I’ve decided to choose the last one composition which is about the shepherd’s life written with a dialogue.
I think in this composition I used the most of my knowledge of English until now, because I tried to write with different kinds of verbs (past, present, conditionals, past perfect…), some connectors, relative clauses and other grammar and vocabulary that I have been learning.
Apart of that, I knew a few things about this profession (shepherd) and to think and write about the differences between the past and nowadays of this profession it was, for me, a little difficult. Moreover, it had to be a dialogue and I hadn’t written it before that it was based in a concretely topic. However, when I was writing it the inspirations comes to me and the composition resulted very long, too much I know. I have to try to summarize and make the topic clear.
In conclusion, I consider writing is the best form to know, to show and to improve any language (if you have a teacher who teaches you and who corrects your mistakes) and to get fluency. So, I’ve learnt a lot writing and writing.