Reflection on the Oral Presentation 2

Last Thursday, our group had an oral presentation for the problem-solving project of module CG1413. The main objective of this project is to raise the awareness of the impact of diet change on global warming. After all the pressure surrounding us for a long time, now it is perfect time for reflection.

It seems that I had a great improvement compared to the last oral presentation with the project CG1102, not only because this time I spent more time for preparation but also because I felt more confident. First of all, about the content, I have to say that more attractive animations were added into my slides that makes my presentation energetic and interesting. I was also able to keep track of my speech by emphasizing some important points as well as interacting with the audience. In such a long presentation, the key to keep audience pay attention is to combine both informative and funny elements harmonically; and personally to some extent, I think I successfully did it. Furthermore, I also spent a lot of time for my presentation content, which in the previous I missed. That’s the reason that though I didn’t use index cards to support my speech, I felt quite confident and wasn’t lost during the presentation. Last but not least, by rehearsing with my teammate few times, I finally found some resonance between my part and others.

However, there are still some parts that I need to improve a lot. Firstly, though this time I tried to speak lower and control my volume as well that made my pronunciation clearer, sometimes during the speech I was awkward when making some grammar errors. Moreover, my gesture and eye contact were still not good enough to grasp all the audience’s attention. I strongly believe that such imperfections were mostly due to the fact that this presentation was only the second time for me. Sometimes during the speech, I felt not confident and that affected my fluency. I hope that by practicing a lot, I will be able to improve such weaknesses gradually.

Overall, I think that our group had a good performance. Firstly, the delegation of tasks for the presentation is appropriate that helped each individuals show his best. Secondly, by rehearsing few times before, we achieved a high level of cohesiveness between different presenters ’s content . Of course, there are still rooms for us to improve, here I want to focus on the consistency in each part’s slides. There are some differences about the layout, font size which I think we can get better in the next time.

Finally, I want to say thank you to all of my teammates: Kai Ren, Duy, Geetika and Michael. Without each of us, we couldn’t finish the project at all. Thank you guys !