Do you want to know what's going on?

I'm glad to say hello all of you! My name is Daria and I’m a fourth-year student at NSPU. I study German and English languages and this year I have “Public Speech” classes, so I’ve decided to do this blog. I’m sure it will help me to see my progress and be better at this particular topic.

So, let’s start then. First day of new discipline was absolutely nervous.You know, it's like an unexplored area for me. Our first task was to tell about our past year, we were meant to choose three-five main events of the year and present them to our groupmates and teacher. We also recorded our speech and now I need to analyze my speech and write about three things that I liked the most about it and three things that need to be improved.

Here is the video of my speech:

So three things that I liked about my speech are:

1) My emotions

It is obvious that I’ve enjoyed my speech, especially you can see it at the moment when I was speaking about becoming a godmother.

2) Body language

I was open to the audience and wasn’t afraid to use gestures (I was waving my hands, smiling). I wanted to tell my story and I hope it worked out.

3) The composition of the speech

Almost all of the events that I’ve chosen were about adventures and I’ve done it on purpose, because I wanted my presentation to be complete and coherent.

And three things that I think need improvement:

1) Reading

I was peeping into my notes a lot and I think that I need to be more confident and try to speak without my notebook, because it is way better for the audience.

2) “Body image”

I was fixing my hair a lot and was trying to “fix” my appearance and I’m sure that it was because I was very nervous and tried to calm myself down.

3) Pauses and “erm”

When I lost my thoughts I made a lot of pauses and it was distracting. I definitely need to work on it and avoid so much pauses.

That’s it for today. Hope you enjoyed this post, because I like the task a lot.

By CAMOMILE