For the first speech, the topic is “What Makes Your Heart Sing?” To be honest, when I first heard this topic, I just wanted to quit. I know that this topic was asking me to talk about what made me happy. However, for me, the hardest thing is talking about myself. To give a good speech, I think the most important thing is to move people. However, I think my life so is commonplace that I cannot think of a story to make people moved. It spent me a whole week to consider what to present. Then I decided to talk about how I be a volunteer in China and help others, which I think will be best to rise the resonance with audiences. As I remember, in that day, before I went into the classroom for the …show more content…
However, I do have many weaknesses. For example, I will easily apply some movements to my speech, such as touching my hair, wringing my hands, or shrinking my shoulders. Other than that, I always stop the speech because of my unfamiliar with the article, especially the problem of the pronunciation. Sometimes, because of the unfamiliar with the text, when I am trying to remember something, my eyes will look at the upper right direction, which I believe that will look uncomfortable.
These two presentations help me figure out many problems I have on speech. In order to give a better speech, I have to make some changes. To get more familiar with the text, I should write the speech as earlier as I can. Besides, in order to avoid those unfavorable gestures, I will practice in front of the mirror, and try to use more efficient gestures to help others understand my speech better. In general, I learn a lot from the class, even though I still need to improve, at least, I am proud enough to stand in front of others. I believe, I can do better in the following