Speaking

Period 1

For this period, we have to search and study some information about topics such as: How to Handle a Job Interview, How to train your personnel, How to start your own business, How to launch a new product, etc. 

This time, the dynamics were a little bit different as it had been in other courses we were taking a paper at random and according to what it said we had to talk for one minute about this topic. I had to talk about "How to star your own business".

This is my video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=up_2ANKDFlY

Some of my friendly classmates rated my performance. 

They took into account my organization, subject knowledge, mechanics, eye contact and elocution:

Also my wonderful teacher rated the same items and this is what I got:

Other activities 

In order to improve my pronunciation and practice speaking I did many exercises and activities in several useful websites that could help me with these issues. Exercises like small talks, pronunciation techniques, speaking practices with levels from beginner to advanced were the ones who helped me complete this part. I entered to the official website of BULATS to find the types of exercises usually are asked in order to practice them. Also I look into the topics of which I am going to be asked, so I did some research about them and I made some types of speech counting the time for being prepared for everything and finally I realized some of the online test that are on the same website. 

Reflection 1

When I was presenting my oral exam I was really nervous and I completely forgot that we have to conclude 15 seconds before so I started to speak so fast and the same nerves began to make me jam  I just stop speaking. The next presentation I ´m going to practice a lot of relaxation exercises before  speaking just for improve in that area handle the nervous and be prepared for the BULATS.

Period 2

For this period in order to improvise in our oral presentations  the teacher for about a minute did some questions to answer as to what we were asked. The questions were made at random.

I was asked the following:

- If you won the lottery what would you do?

- If you have 24 hours to live, what would you do?

- If you could be any animal, what would you be?

- Do you want to get married?Why?

This is my video with all my answers:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ICwd8z5ZPl0&list=UU7qQCYIEQab8kgIrV6xiq1w 

My classmates rated my performance doing that. They took into account my organization, subject knowledge, mechanics, eye contact and elocution. This is what I´ve got:

My beautiful teacher rated the same items:

Other activities

This time I try to focus more with BULATS type exercises. I read some websites with many tips that could help me when I were presenting the speaking part of the exam. Also of other special books I did many exercises in order to practice all parts of the examination from the portion of the questions about your name, your work, reading sentences, explain various topics, until the part where you have to talk about a graph or cover certain topics in a specific time. Like wise were studying some vocabulary such as connectors that could help me to connect ideas and give much more formality to what I want to say.

Reflection 2

During the oral presentation of this period I feel much better. Of course I was a little bit nervous but with all the exercises  that I had already practiced I could answer with much facility than the other times. I think I should keep practicing exercises about handling nerves to get much quieter my presentations because my exam and BULATS approaches so I should be ready by the time I need to present the exam.