Topic Oral: my experience living with an american girl

Hi, my name's Anna and today I'll talk about my experience living with an american girl. I chose this topic because I think it's an interesting theme and you don't know much about it.  

So, let's start, Quinn is 16 and she cames from California. She arrived in Catalonia on the 7th of September and she's living on the 27th of June. She came by an organitzation called AFS (American Field Service), who takes care of a lot of exchange students every year.

Now, she's like a sister to me, and when she leaves Banyoles I'll be very sad. I think this experience has changed my mind, I learnt a lot of things and I grew up, I met a lot of exchange students from every part of the world and some host brothers and sisters that are living the same experience as me.

So now it's your turn, I'll try to answer all your questions because its the main reason of this oral presintation. 

3. We don't want any more traffic jams!

I'm writing because I was going to my cousins' house and while we were on the road, a big traffic jam started in just ten minutes, it usually tooks two hours and this day we spent three and a half. And I have to say that it wasn't my only experience, this happened to us like five times in three months.

I think there are one or two reasons for this. Firstly, there's too much traffic for only one road, so perhaps we need one or two new lanes or maybe another road.

Secondly, there aren't enough public buses, people is going to the same place and they are one or maximum two in a five places' car.

We must do something about this situation. A lot of people use the car to go to work, mostly when they work into big cities. If we don't do anything our planet will become a black cloudy Earth because of the contamination of the fuel.

9. A piece of art

The son of man

The son of man was painted by René Magritte in 1964. Its an oil painting and it shows a portrait of himself and a green apple in the middle of his face, the man is in front of a seaside landscape. At the beggining, Margritte painted a portrait, but when he finished it he showed it as an anonymous man; we could recognize him seeing his eyes behind the apple.

This painting belongs to the “surrealism”, a type of art which started in the 1920s and came from de Dada movement. The surrealism tries to represent a fantastic reality and sometimes scenes from the dreams. It's between the reality and the “no reality”.

This painting isn't exhibited in any museums or galleries, it belongs to a private property.

8. A review of a film: NO RESERVATIONS

I'd like to recomend a film which I watch last weekend, called No reservations.The director of the film is Scott Hicks, and it was recorded on 2007.

The film is a romantic comedy recorded in New York. The main characters are a young girl between the age of 8 named Zoe, her aunt Kate, who is a very well known chef, and Nick, a new member Kate's kitchen.

Kate, Nick and Zoe are living separate lifes, until Kate's sister dies in a traffic accident and Zoe, the daughter of her sister who becames orphan. Kate takes care of her niece and during the days she was temporaly off of work, the leader of the restaurant were she works, contracts a new member: Nick.

The things I liked most about the film were the relationship between the main characters. I also liked a lot the mix of love and drama: how the director shows the streght of Zoe, who has lost her parents. Some of the scenes are memorable because they're really sad and hard.

All in all, I really enjoyed the film, I won't change anything about the plot, its just fantastic

6. Write an opinion essay

In our area, mostly anyone does home-schooling, the normal or common way to study in our country is in a school. I know a girl who did home-schooling during 3 or 4 months, she had a traffic accident and she couldn't go to school.

In my opinion, home-schooling is not very common because people who studies at home are usually people that live in the country side, where there aren't schools, or maybe they have problems and they can go to school or also are their fathers who decided it. Any way, mostly all ths students aren't in this situations.

Firstly, I think home-schooling would be an amazing experience. Secondly, I think that if you study at home you would have a completely different live than if you study at school. Finally, I think go to school it's better because you are with other people and different teachers, etc.

So all in all, I've never tried home-schooling and I can compare going to school with studing at home, I can only give one's opinion of it.

5. A biography of a star: MILEY CYRUS

Miley Cyrus is a singer and an actress who was born in Nashville, Tennessee in 1992. She's been involved in music since 2006 when she played Miley Stewart in the Disney's Channel serie Hannah Montana, in fact of this, she realised the sonor band from the four season of HM.

Her big break came in when she signed a contract with Hollywood Records to continue her single career. In the years that followed, she released many hits and she also broad cast many famous films. She once was nominated in the Golden globe prices for the best original song, realised by her self.

Since then, Miley Cyrus has became another person, she's became a rebel women and she completely changed her image and style. There are many opinions about Miley and she won many fans, and of course losed some of them.

4. A comment on an internet forum

HeyGazza! Its got a point. The problem is that some people can be obsessive with internet and I think that internet is like a trap for teenagers.

When I started to use the social network Facebook, I got so addicted in it: when I arrived from school I firstly went to my Facebook and spent all the afternoon in it and when my parents arrived they scolded me but it was a temptation for me, like the chocolate!

People who are internet addict must visit the psychologist.