Week 5

In week five the topic of the lesson was in relation to Presentation and also about our group formation.

There are seven elements in relation to the Presentation and they are the following ones:

• Tone: While talking you can sound angry or calm

• Emphasis: This one is important because while talking you can emphasize certain words and differentiate your tone of voice to calm, angry etc
• Content: It focuses on what someone says and if what s/he says contains technical words or other words that may be misunderstood by the people around him/her.
• Humour: It is good to use it but without overdoing it because in the end your speech may be not that credible and may not deliver the message that you wanted it.
• Speed: Don't talk too fast so that your speech won't be understood by your audience and also if you have important points that you want to emphasize you can use pauses.
• Pronounciation and Pitch: Before presenting your speech you need to be sure of the meaning of the words that you read, how they are pronounced.
• Visuals: You can use different means in order to present your founding, your speech but you don't have to overdo it. It is also important that you maintain eye contact with your audience.

(London Metropolitan University)

The Presentation structure is divided in three sections:

Introduction: in this section you introduce yourself to the audience, you introduce your topic to them and state what you will talk about during your speech's duration.

Developing your argument: Be sure that you have a knowledge of the time limit of your speech and that sometimes you may have to explain some parts of your topic earlier.

Conclusion: In the last part of presentation, you summarize what has been said, you ask the audience if they have any question in relation to your presentation and you thank them for taking part.

Something that is important always in everything that someone chooses to do is practice. Practice helps you maintain what you have learned and also to expand this knowledge to a higher step

(London Metropolitan University)

I had the chance many times in the past, and also now, to present a topic in front of an audience which at that time was my classmates and instructors. It wasn't easy for me to stand in front of an audience and talk about a particular topic and even if i knew these people and my response to it was to get anxious (nowadays i still feel anxious but it has been minimized in relation to my very first presentations). A presentation of a topic is important because today it is a presentation in an academic level but tomorrow it may be in my future job so i feel like everytime i gain something from each presentation and what was wrong or right, what i need to eliminate or add.

Lastly, we talked again about our upcoming project and our group members. In this group project we'll be four people and we'll talk about "Hard Drives." It is an interesting topic and i hope to learn more about them.