Fancy Days~

Now, I'm gonna review on selected speakers today. Oral test, free topic. How we all manage to pull this test off?

Christin.

She chose a topic that is very closely related to her which became her bonus. No need to memorize unnecessary facts nor figures to back her topic up. Having a hobby to kill pests. I'll definitely not forget this Christin. You opened new perspective of hobbies in my 'jakun' mind. She made a great impact through her speech. Though the effect, impact of her speech was no doubt a good one, but the topic selected grossed out most of us. That's not something pleasing to listen in the morning, in my first class and at the same time I was nervous about my upcoming speech.

Yes, selection of topic is not a wise one. But as a speaker now, her facial expression was very convincing. She touched a little of our emotions when she spoke about her first kill of the frog where the gate sliced it into two. Grrr.. Typing this out gave me goosebumps. Message delivered were very clear. And definitely, she's got everyone's attention. Something that's quite hard to achieve as a speaker.

Jeremy

What is love to you? Eros, Agape, Storge.. etc. Jeremy did quite a good teaser before it was his turn to present. He gave out little pieces of heart to the audience on the right and ask to write how we define love. Some of us were quite excited when we received that little heart.

For a topic about love, it should be something very closely related to everyone. But the way Jeremy presented love is like some sort of dry facts which sort of making the audience to lose their interest. There was a moment, in the beginning where the crowd were excited, Jeremy lost control of the audience who was discussing about the topic out loud among one another. He settled it by ignoring the audience and continued his speech. I think he should address to the audience properly and tell them that he's going to move on to such and such points.

However, yes Jeremy, you did improve. Don't get too discourage by my comments. It's just the content. But the way he presented was good. It was obvious for a moment that he was a little nervous but he managed to carry on with his speech slowly and smoothly. I think he should be familiarize with the facts instead of looking at the cue cards most of the times.

Don't give up Jeremy!

.angeline :)