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Public speaking is a course that is only half a year and the intention of the course is to improve the speeching skill of every student in the class. Every day, students were challenged by different topic and forced to make up new ideas. In the beginning, everybody who has no idea about each other was sitting in a small classroom staring at each other. Soon, the teacher Mrs.Guarino start the class with an effective icebreaker that helped students to know each other by using a simple speech. Then, we start to practice how to add emotion into one speech to make it more interesting. At first, students cannot find the feeling but when the nervousness was reduced, everybody find their own way. Although I am still horrible at remembering the name, I can still remember how one student has so much confidence and humor inside his speech. Henry, the only white male's name I remembered in the class due to he has another class with me, has great confidence and sounds pretty passion. Throughout each speech, people can tell how each student slowly developing their own skill. Even more, because there are many speeches that closely relates to personal interest and fast reaction everybody get to know each other more which created a great atmosphere that nobody feels alone or awkward during discussions. This lovely atmosphere further made the speech from each person more engaging and more humorous which further increases the bond between each person thus creating a benign circle that keeps going on. For me, my original goal is to get more familiar with my English usage and practice my writing skill. Both of them were achieved throughout practices from Public speaking class. Every time I practice my speech by proofreading it and repetitively reading it, I find out many different grammatical errors which help me in next writing. Also, I can more clearly represent my opinion in a shorter sentence to others orally which make me happy that I took this class. Besides these original goals, I also received something I never thought I can receive: friendship. Before taking this class, I do not have an African American named Jaquan or hockey player or a music writer. But after this class, I did. Friendship is such an important thing that is hard to achieve throughout living alone. With this class and with my written speech of John Smith, I did. Especially, people like Sam and Jarett (I finally get some names!), they have a unique way of speaking and make jokes with others that I can learn from. Their humorous, thoughts, way of learning, and how they show respect teaches me. As a class, I believe everybody learn not only how to make a speech and perform it well enough but also a different perspective and culture interaction. In conclusion, Public speaking, a class that only is a semester, have not only teach me how to speak and write in English but also let me receive precious friendship that I have never consider about before taking this class.
Public speaking is a course that is only half a year and the intention of the course is to improve the speeching skill of every student in the class. Every day, students were challenged by different topic and forced to make up new ideas. In the beginning, everybody who has no idea about each other was sitting in a small classroom staring at each other. Soon, the teacher Mrs.Guarino start the class with an effective icebreaker that helped students to know each other by using a simple speech. Then, we start to practice how to add emotion into one speech to make it more interesting. At first, students cannot find the feeling but when the nervousness was reduced, everybody find their own way. Although I am still horrible at remembering the name, I can still remember how one student has so much confidence and humor inside his speech. Henry, the only white male's name I remembered in the class due to he has another class with me, has great confidence and sounds pretty passion. Throughout each speech, people can tell how each student slowly developing their own skill. Even more, because there are many speeches that closely relates to personal interest and fast reaction everybody get to know each other more which created a great atmosphere that nobody feels alone or awkward during discussions. This lovely atmosphere further made the speech from each person more engaging and more humorous which further increases the bond between each person thus creating a benign circle that keeps going on. For me, my original goal is to get more familiar with my English usage and practice my writing skill. Both of them were achieved throughout practices from Public speaking class. Every time I practice my speech by proofreading it and repetitively reading it, I find out many different grammatical errors which help me in next writing. Also, I can more clearly represent my opinion in a shorter sentence to others orally which make me happy that I took this class. Besides these original goals, I also received something I never thought I can receive: friendship. Before taking this class, I do not have an African American named Jaquan or hockey player or a music writer. But after this class, I did. Friendship is such an important thing that is hard to achieve throughout living alone. With this class and with my written speech of John Smith, I did. Especially, people like Sam and Jarett (I finally get some names!), they have a unique way of speaking and make jokes with others that I can learn from. Their humorous, thoughts, way of learning, and how they show respect teaches me. As a class, I believe everybody learn not only how to make a speech and perform it well enough but also a different perspective and culture interaction. In conclusion, Public speaking, a class that only is a semester, have not only teach me how to speak and write in English but also let me receive precious friendship that I have never consider about before taking this class.
