Entry No. : 3 Date: 5th February 2015
Lesson Description
The class started with “Traffic Light” as warming up exercise, followed by “Bomb and Shield”, “Catch the moment” and “Stage direction”, and ended with the presentations on William Shakespeare’s Life Brief Candle. The activities that impressed me the most are:
1. Bomb and Shield: In this activity, we assigned someone in our group as “bomb(s)” and “shield” without telling the persons. When the game started, we would have to avoid the “bomb(s)” and stick to the “shield”.
2. Catch the moment: It was a free-style activity that we walked around doing all kinds of actions. When Ms. Pat whistled, we would have to stop in the midst of our actions. The activity then carried out in pairs,
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Also, I have learnt to relax to balance when I were to do a live statue. I realized that I am not open enough to express my actions as adventurous as others’. In “stage direction”, I have learnt the right directions for an actor on stage. I also learnt the different kinds of pattern to go off-stage. When I was doing the presentation of Life Brief Candle, I feel comfortable in expressing emotion but not in action. To be honest, I thought I have eye-contact with the audience. In fact, I was looking at a middle point between Ms. Pat and the audience. Through the presentations, I learnt about my ability and weaknesses. As comments from Ms. Pat, I have good internalization with the story, yet I am not good in expressing my actions (I was blocking my actions) and eye-contact with the audience. Also, I would need to improve my English …show more content…
Somehow, maybe due to my previous experience, I was comfortable in expressing emotions but not actions. Action is a really a weakness to me. Hence, I think I would really need to work on it. For my weakness in eye-contact, I think it might be caused by my experience too because my primary school teachers used to teach me to look at somewhere else other than the audience to prevent nervousness. However, this doesn’t work in acting. I agree with Ms. Pat point of view, a performance would be better if the performer looks directly into the audience eyes. Next, I specifically like the “Catch the Moment” activity in this class as it gave me a different kinds of experience. Although it was tiring, I like when a story was formed subconsciously through the actions. Thank you Ms. Pat for her comment. Thank you the class for the fun in this class. Thank you for everything. Thank you, thank you and thank
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During my Duke of Edinburgh expedition I succeeded in communicating well with people that I did not previously know and was able to motivate others under time pressures to be able to get back to the camp before dark. I am a very hard worker and always like to help others. Although I believe I am very independent, I also flourish when working with a team. During my work experience at Concord Youth Centre I worked well in a team and led a group of youths from the community to prepare and present a presentation about community cohesion. Before the presentation I first had to advise and present my knowledge to the young people. My presentation and public speaking skills, as well as my confidence, has grown and developed during my time at sixth form. I am a very confident speaker as further shown through my participation in a Conference against FGM (Female Genital Mutilation) at which I read and presented a poem. I also love acting because it allows me to express myself and present important messages to lots of people and express my feelings through
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The teacher will evaluate the students’ comprehension of the lesson through the participation of the students in the class discussion, the quality of student responses to the paired translation exercise, and from the homework of the remaining passages to translate which were not discussed in class.
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The main problem was me that I was kind of nervous so I forgot to introduce my thesis. I also learned that I need to speak louder from the video, instructor and my peers comment. Because of low volume, my audiences and instructor hardly heard my voice which can make them curious of what I’m saying. Also, when I speak, I was kind of hesitating to speak which is very distracting the audience. Some of my audience may understand that English is my second language but when my audience want to learned about the problem and the solution, the audience may find that my speaking is very hard to understand when I hardly articulate the words. As I saw on the video, I was staring a lot on the note card than the audience which I lost the attention from the audience. As I mentioned on the previous reflection about the importance of eye contact, I just lost on this speech. I will learned from the mistake that I done during this semester in this speech class and try to use the good thing that I done and keep
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