Reflection on oral

This oral presentation is different from the traditional idea of a presentation. This is a changeable work since students are not allowed to use any other ways to project other than speaking it out. Before I really start to try a practice, I thought this 12-15 minutes must be really long and suffering because I need to keep talking. However, after I really tried once I realize this is not a really long presentation if students are confident and clear about what they are going to say.

When writing the oral presentation, I realize that not only the performing part, but also the thinking part is important as well. I thought a lot about each character that I performed before acting. I also tried to understand what makes Caroline’s mom become such a controlling parent, and I also thought about the girl’s character which she is extremely rebellious because of puberty. So I put my early thoughts into my oral presentation in order to clarify my reason to combine Children of the Sea and Caroline’s wedding together.

As Ms.Guarino said: the more practice, the better you can do. I didn’t realize that I am going do my final version of oral presentation until yesterday, and I started on my notes since this morning. Since I didn’t manage my time properly, I didn’t get much time to practice, which makes me really nervous when doing the final one. I had 5 pages of notes, and when I reach the end of my third page, I used about 8 minutes during practicing. But I only used 7 minutes when doing the final. Since I was too anxious, I spoke really fast and my voice was trembling. I made lots of grammar mistakes and had no logical when talking. If I get a chance to redo it, I will definitely do more practice and be well prepared for it.