16. Self evaluation

Today it was our turn to make an oral presentation. As to talk about the text, it was a bullshit in my opinion but it also enabled us to talk much. TV and family are two concepts that you can talk forever, so although we are not native speakers it wasn't a big trouble talking. I think the presentation went well in general, the awareness that the text I was talking about was something I carefully read gave me great comfort. To talk about our negatives, I felt regretful as soon as I started to read a quatation out loud, asking myself, why didn't you put that in a slide, man? One other negative point was that I lacked eye contact with the students. There are many reasons behind this, and I am sure television is not one of them. Two main reasons were my lack of experience and the lack of interest of the audience. I witness this in my other classes: some teachers tend to be looking straight at the "best listener", and that was what I mostly did: looking at Sonja. I think mentioning things that are to improve is more important than writing positives, because there's no need to praise yourself, there's more we can take out of "constructive" warnings.