Speech video is a significant tool to judge and evaluate the performance of speech. After watching my speech video carefully, I found several ways that I could improve in the future.
My initial response to seeing myself is really awkward because I thought my performance was poor at my speech day and I do not want to recall about that. After watching it, I felt it was even worse than I expected. I understand that facing up my weak point is important to improve in the future; thus, I still watched it completely and evaluated myself although I was really reluctant to do this.
The most obvious problem in my speech was that my language was not fluent at all, which sounded like I did not prepare enough. Actually, I spent plenty of …show more content…
I had a clear thesis and stated it at the introduction. The introduction was excellent, which started with a story about the open-crotch pants, and it hooked my audiences successfully. The body paragraphs also were very good, which maintained enough details and a clear structure. The conclusion only had three sentences, which sounded a little weak. Also, I liked the visual aid that I made, which exhibited some cultural products directly that I mentioned in my speech; moreover, some pictures in the slideshow made people laughed, which is an important signal for me to know the success of this slideshow.
If I could do the speech again, I would improve me improve the fluency as much as I can. I would practice much more than this time. I would try to be more calm when I delivery speech next time. I would make my oral English sound better, and I also would write a better conclusion.
Although I am unsatisfied with my performance, this speech helps me a lot in some ways, which indicated my weak points such as English ability, eye contacts, nervousness and so on. Finding out my limits is so valuable for me and my future college life. I am going to improving my public speaking skills as soon as