Oral Presentation（self-evaluation）

黃怡儒

Throughout this semester, I think the most valuable lesson I learned is how to be professional in mock interviews, oral presentations, being a tour guide or being a flight attendant.

I think having conversations in English is not a hard thing for everyone in this class since we all major in English and have been learning English for quite a few years.  But how to make the conversations sound professional is a totally different story.  For example, I remember in one class, we were all required to pretend that we were people with different occupations.  Then we broke into groups and started to talk about our jobs.  In this dialogue, we had to convince others that we were reliable and professional.  However, the discussion in my group became unprofessional and turned into giggling and useless chitchatting.  Finally, Jo saved us by coming to our table and showing us the correct way of professional talk.

Besides being professional, it is also important to learn to make people listen.  The easiest way may be making yourself interesting first and I think this is something I need to work on.  I don』t regard myself as a good speaker because I don』t think my speech is that appealing as my other classmates.  Maybe I should add some jokes or anecdotes in order to arouse people』s interest so that they put down what they are doing and listen to me.