Home Session "Passive Voice"

On Friday our teacher gave us the liberty of working by ourselves. That same day I saw the PowerPoint presentation that had all the instructions that needed to be carried out. I chose my teammate and we agreed to work separately and use Facebook to communicate. First thing in the morning on Saturday we started working. I began to work on the essay as my other teammate began to work on the exercise given by the teacher. As we both finished, we exchanged our work in order to check out for any mistakes that may have slipped on each other’s work.  We finished without any problems and we were able to do a solid work, or at least we expected that. Overall, I think this home work was very useful for us since it helped us practice passive voice, which we can now use on our future assignments. 

Mark Zuckerberg Speech

On Wednesday I had to give my informative speech because there wasn’t enough time on Monday. At first I was frustrated because I wanted to do it on Monday to be free of work; however, I realized that this gave me more time to practice what I was going to say. Saying my speech on Wednesday actually worked out for me, since I had a lot of time to prepare myself. At the end, a positive result was given by all my effort, since I received a very good grade. I am looking forward for my next speech given that I realize I am getting better at speaking in front of the class. Thanks to all the speeches I have given, each time I feel more confident of myself as I am giving my speech.

First Partial Exam

My first partial exam was very interesting, since I used the same speech I said that same day at my Spanish class. It took me a very long time to finish my Spanish speech because I wanted it to be perfect; Therefore, I knew I had done a good job so I decided to also use it my Public Speaking Class. If I had decided to do I new speech I wouldn´t have finished on time. My effort was reflected on my grade which was very good. I think I´ll do good on this partial and I hope to keep up with the good work.

Team speech

Last week instead of making a speech and passing by ourselves to the front of the class, the teacher decided to do it this time in teams. The teams were of 3 members each, and we had to talk for at least 10 minutes. Our team got together to work on the speech, and everything turned out to be great. We talked about nuclear energy and its positive and negative impacts. I really enjoyed this activity because I improved my public speaking skills along with my teammates.