Entry 12: Summary of the class about Oral Report

Today we had on the Study Skills class we had topic called Oral Report. It was really interesting lesson because we had discussion between 2 groups. During the class each student said his/her problems on making presentations and speaking among audience at all and we tried to solve them. A big amount of the students said that they have difficulties with self confidence, concentration, memory and speech at all. Then each student said which method of the resolution of these problems he knows and tried to use. For instance, it was said that in the way to be more confident it's very useful to speak texts among the mirror, to represent speech to friends and listen to their comments and critics. If person has problems with memory this person should use methods such as "Loci method" that rise memorization and help to remember more information. Even one girl said that she repeats her words while cooking and remembers her text by connotation words with the steps of cooking process and advised us to try this. Also these are helpful on developing concentration and clear speech. At the end of the class we played the game in which students demonstrated actions that are not appropriate to do during the representing of presentation. Personally I learned many interesting details of presentation making and surely will use them in the future additional tasks. What about you? Do you feel confidence in your speech? What problems do you have and how do you try to solve them? What you would advise in the way to be successful speaker?

In the university there are many presentations that are given us as the additional task from all subjects. It's interesting to work on them but it would be better if we be able to choose topics by ourselves. Personally, I prefer topics that can make audience to think about aspects of life such as health, economical, cultural, spiritual levels of human being. Here some topics that I would like to work on: "Illnesses of children that bring death", " Africa- the Hell on the earth, or could live without daily comforts?", "Human sensitivity: which feelings do we have?" "Reasons of teenage suicide"