Hi, class

So, we have almost finished our mid-term test with the presentations and the role plays. In my opinion, we have made some mistakes but we also gained many successes and experiences.

First of all,about the failure of presentation, I personally think that the presentation is not as interesting as I had hoped. We just reorganized what we had studied without many interesting activities. Some body talked and the others listened, somtimes answered some questions but I think that's not enough. G7 group really did better than the other groups with the video clips which were actually attractive and interactive. In general, we wrote too much the expressions but we didn't have the collerative illustrations, for example a case that we had to use some expressions which had been presented.We just use some single questions and feed backs, which couldn't show our understanding of the usages of the expression. Besides, we still talked a little bit softly and I sometimes couldn't catch what you were saying. I think they are some reasons made our presentation not very successful. Therefore, I think that the next time we present, we should focus more on the activities and try to speak as clearly as possible.However, we also show our attempt in reading and organizing the lessons as the way we understand them so as to we can learn them again, more actively. Moreover, there were some groups adding some more extra expressions which weren't provided in the lessons,which is pretty good. And this also help us in reviewing for the coming final test.

Next, the role plays were really different from the presentations. We still made some mistakes but we attract the viewers better and we could show our pronunciation, our understanding of the expressions. And I personally think that's much better than what we had perfomed in the presentations. We all prepared very carefully for our plays with clothes, music, acting skills and some expressions. The class were really attracted by a variety of plays performed. We had fun and we also both the casts and the viewers learned how to use some expressions correctly . It's more funny ,exciting and usefull to review our lesson by this way because we apply the expressions for the specific cases, which requires the ability to understand the expressions we learned.Everyone has chance to speak before class and improve our speaking skills, and our confidence as well. Nevertheless, I think we may have focused too much on our acting to make the audience to pay as much attention to our performance as possible but we didn't notice on the expressions, or sometimes, we were so nervous and forgot the expressions we had to say or we spoke too softly, which partly made our plays less perfect.So, when making a play, we need to practice many times to get accustomed to the dialogues, to speak as loudly and clearly as well. Then, the audience can follow our play more easily.
These are all what we think about two parts of our mid term test. May be we didn't make a very good job but we tried our best and we got experience. I hope that we will get better results for the final test! Good luck to all of us! ^-^