Analysis of our oral presentations

Dividing the topics into groups for oral presentations was a good idea. It allowed us to focus on the details of the part assigned to us without worrying about the text as a whole. Therefore, when the time came for us to deal with each topic on its own, we were able to pay attention to the details, whether because we had the time to work on them or because someone else had already done that for us.

Our presentation in particular was not very good. We had prepared a powerpoint presentation on google docs that would aid us and serve as a guide, apart from providing examples and pictures. Unluckily the internet connection was not working that day and we could not show it. This made the presentation awkward. We had to resort to the blackboard sometimes, and tried to explain things in the air some others. This increased our stress, which sometimes made us make intonation and pronunciation mistakes which led to further misunderstandings. Still, our classmates asked questions to clarify what was not clear, which allowed the topic to be developed properly.

Our classmates presentations, especially those in which there was a visual aid, were very helpful. They provided a different point of view on the same topics we had already read about. Class notes based on their presentations are an important aid for studying later on. Their examples, also, allowed us to see another way of applying the new information to the classroom, different from that presented by the material and different from that of our own.