The topic of my demonstration speech was how to write a thank you note. I chose this topic cognizant of my audience; the speech would be delivered to a room of my peers as well as our TA, Bentley. With this in mind, I tried to select a topic that wasn’t too obscure and somewhat applicable to everyone’s daily life, but not so elementary that the speech would be boring to listen to. Also, this speech was delivered to fulfil an academic assignment, not in a professional setting. Based on that situation
2.1. Advantages of PowerPoint 2.1. Producing Better Visual Effects and Deeper Impression The contents of a science lecture is often abstract, sometime they are hard to explain using chalkboard. However, by presenting PowerPoint slides inserted with pictures, flow charts, schematics, animations, even video clips, the lecture may become vivid and attractive to students. For example, in chemistry, the shift between two conformations of a molecular is hard to explain using chalk writing, but it could
about what is important in the story, poem, speech or other nonfiction text. Plus, it can be fun to find out whether things turn out as they expected. As children read, they should stop every once in a while, and think about what the author has written. They should check the text and images for clues about what might be important. If they are reading a story, they should try predicting what they think will happen next. If they are reading a poem, speech, or essay, they should try predicting the themes
Constitutional Growth Delay, Pediatric Constitutional growth delay is a growth pattern. Children with constitutional growth delay grow: • At a slower-than-average rate from late infancy through early childhood. • At an average rate through childhood. • At a slower-than-average rate through most of adolescence. • At a faster-than-average rate in late adolescence. Children with constitutional growth delay grow to a normal height, but they tend to be shorter than their peers during childhood
I challenged myself to work on my nerves. Second, I challenged myself to work on not rushing through my speech. I usually like to talk fast to get it done with. Last, I challenged myself to make the time requirements. I think I addressed these pretty well. I didn't rush through my speech and I made my time requirements. The strongest element in my body was my facts. At the 1:50 mark I had really good facts about Blarney Castle. I think I did a good job describing it and how to kiss the stone. My
Self and Peer Evaluation Self Evaluation: My speech on Jumbo the elephant was decently presented overall but did contain several mistakes. The opening was meant to be intriguing and emotional to catch the audience. I failed at keeping a slow pace and adding dramatic pauses due to nerves and fear of going over the time limit given. I attempted eye contact with the audience through out and managed it better than I have in the past. I tried my best with giving some body language but definitely needed
is affected by influences coming from the culture we live in. That is why the surrounding ideas, customs, skills, and tools, have impact on any language. As our culture provides us with guidelines to behave appropriately within our community, our speech must include those qualities that our culture regards as positive and desirable; otherwise, we will have trouble to fit into society. Thus, the underlying questioning of this paper is whether we should make use of every single language device available
2.1. Introduction This chapter presents the related studies about incidental and. intentional vocabulary learning through extensive reading. There will be a brief look at the incidental vs. intentional vocabulary learning. After that, the impotence of extensive reading on vocabulary in second language learning will be summarized. Finally, the previous studies relevant to the current study will be reviewed. 2.2. Importance of vocabulary learning Vocabulary is central to English language teaching and
communication scope they are involved in (Brown, 1994). Knowing a word means more than knowing the word’s meaning or definition. It also means knowing the word’s role(s) in different contexts, its spelling, how it sounds, its other meanings, it’s part of speech, and so on (Juel & Deffes, 2004). Stahl (2003) makes the distinction between the dictionary definition of a word (definitional knowledge), and the way a word’s meaning adapts to different contexts. In the acquisition of word meaning, it is important
within the education system, like the usual “show and tell” type of speech or presentation in the United States. I attended elementary school in Mexico, where this type of activity was very common for history and natural science classes. Not sure if it still continues to this day. I would have to say, it was an informative type of speech, because I would present information about the chosen subject to classmates. An Informative Speech is to inform an audience, to present the information in a clear