Gender violence

Presentation         10%	Do you use any resources: powerpoint, video, images, sound, real material...? Are the resources focused on the topic? Do the resources support your oral explanation? Is the timing 5- 10 minutes?	8%
Body language & 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 your audience?	6%
Structure          10%	Do you organize your ideas in order of importance? Do you use discourse markers to make your ideas more clear? (First, then, secondly, on the one hand, on the other, finally…)	7%
Content         40%	Do you introduce new information to your audience? Is your information  detailed, clear and...? Do you give/show examples?	30%
Language        20%	Is your grammar correct, complex? (verbs, word order, tenses learnt in class) Is your vocabulary rich, varied (synonyms, idioms, expressions, phasal verbs, topic-related) Do you use sentence linkers? (and, but, moreover, also, furthermore, although, however…) Do you use fillers? (well, you know, for example, one second, repeating a word…)	14%
Pronunciation & Intonation         10%	Do you know how to pronounce all your words? Did you check the pronunciation? Do you change your tone of voice or use a monotone tone all the time? Do you speak in a fluid continuum or with breaks and interruptions?	6%
Self-Evaluation	You are your teacher! :-)                                 FINAL MARK:	7,1

Stare to Unlock: This Phone Scans Your Iris

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Are you sick of that unblock the mobile with difficult passwords or digital fingerprint that be difficult to detect. Well, Fujitsu has created a prototype of a phone that is unlocked with your iris, thanks to a infrared cameras.

According to the creators, although the demo can not do it, in the final product, the software can recognize your eyes, even if you use contact lenses or glasses. The iris scan authentication provides a method much better and more faster than the reading of fingerprint or facial recognition.

Currently there is no model of phone that have this camera, but it is expected that in recent years these can appear.

This can be very useful, because now the modes of unlock mobile aren't very secure. For example if you use digits can be discovered and fingerprints aren't useful because if the button is a little dirty be difficult to detect.

PET: Part 2- Question 6/ Part 3- Question 8

Question 6

Hi Rosie.

I send this email to invite you to come to my town, because a new shopping center has opened. Although it isn't very big, because only contain shops of: supermarket, electronics, clothing, jewelry, restaurants and no more. If you want, we will lunch there and then in the evening, stroll there for see different shops and stores.

I hope to hear from you soon.

Question 8

It was the day before the birthday of Henry.Quickly I had to go to the store to buy a present. henry is one of my best friends, for this reason I can't buy any gift. In the end I bought the videogame that he told me heliked.
I woke up and I was nervous to go to the party. When I went to the livingroom I didn't saw the present, but I didn't careabout this. One hour before the party I started to prepare to go there. I wanted the gift but I didn'tfind it this anywhere. I asked my mother if she saw this, but she said that she didn't saw it today. Fiveteen minutesbefore to left, I was so nervous and I decided to caress my dog. In the doghouse I saw something strange on the floor. Surprisingly, it was the present for Henry. Unfortunately, was a little bit bitten.

Shrimp shells could provide biodegradable plastic alternative

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For many people "plastic" it means pollution, because it's a material created from oil and take much time to degrade.

Researchers at Harvard’s Wyss Institute have introduced a new bioplastic isolated from shrimp shells. It’s made from chitosan, a form of chitin. This material is cheap and easy to manufacture for a new method that retains strong mechanical properties of chitosan. The researchers say can be used to make large objects with complex shapes. Once unusable this breaks down into weeks and even can be useful for plants.

I think that if this is done can bring something very good and very bad. The first is that pollution produced from plastics will be reduced, also the oil consumption, as well as this material "favour the plants" according to the researchers say. But the downside is that this will mean a massive fishing of this animal, which result in a progressive extinction of this, and depending how fished this, imply a destruction of ecosystems in which it is located.

Describe a picture

Formal letter

C/ Del Mar 21

Castelló d'Empúries

13th March 2015

Human Resources Departament

Mercadona supermarket

C/ Mas Pau

Empuriabrava

To whom it may concern

I would like to apply for a job in this supermarket as a shop assistant this summer.

I have experience in this area, because I worked in others supermarkets like Lidl and Aldi, and I am keen on having contact with the people. If you like I can work in other job. I speak four different languages, English, German, Catalan and Spanish.

I want to work in the summer because the rest of the year I am studying. And this can be useful for  pay my university studies.

Yours faithfully

Pere Avellan

Ubisoft’s therapeutic video game Dig Rush treats ‘lazy eye’

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Ubisoft has joined with Amblyotech to create Big Rush, a game developed by researchers at McGill University in Montreal. This game is part of a trend that's "games for health", which are used to treat health problems. According to its creators the game has a 90% effective.

Recently, the video games aren't only for to play,but as you have seen with this game, these can go a step further and be useful to people. I think this is the beginning, and as a continuation of this will begin to design or consider if the gaming industry of video games can be useful for solving certain health problems.

Vocaburaly:

Therapeutic
Unveiled
Engaging