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 We have had a class activity where 4 groups did presentations and talked about their respective chapters while giving everyone as much information as possible, and thanks to these presentations I was able to learn a few things about public speaking and ways that I can improve it. I believe everyone did great in their presentations and I have little to no feedback but I would say a few things.

First of all group 1, they talked about how public speaking had changed during the years and how it compares to how it was before, they had also talked about ways to be more confident, and how to build it and speak in a public setting, they had also explained how to be a good listening and how its important in public speaking, and that despite the class being about speaking, listening is a core part of it, and lastly they spoke about your audience and how one could adapt to it and that not every audience is different, everyone thinks differently so you need to change your ways of speaking depending on who you are talking to, though I do not have many complaints I just think that they could of at least memorized their parts as they were always looking down reading and were not interacting with the audience.

I will not talk much about group 2 since it is the group that I was in, but our main idea was research and how to build your topic and speech, and how to properly prepare for it and research your materials. overall I think my group did good but as one from the group id rather have an opinion from another group.

Group 3 talked about how to properly begin and end your speech, they also covered ways to use language effectively, how to properly deliver your speech, and had also talked about how to integrate presentation media, and group 3 did really interesting as they delivered the topic and explained it almost perfectly, though I still have my complaints about how the group was not as interactive, they managed to overcome that and I believe they did a pretty good job.

Group 4 is the group that covered the most subjects out of all and In my opinion it was my favorite out of the bunch, but it was mostly because of the topics, they talked how to be informative during your speech, they had also talked about how to be persuasive when giving a speech, and how to understand arguments as arguments, as long as you win actually help you making your speech stronger and more believable, they also talked about distance speaking and media appearances, and lastly they spoke about special occasions and group presentations, which put me to think considering that it was a group presentation itself, but overall I believe that group 4 had the most interesting subjects out of all of them but this does not mean that the other groups were not good.

These past days when we were presenting I was able to learn much, even from my own group, and I was able to understand things thanks to all of these and learned many new things as well as skills that I could put into further use on this class, but overall it was a fun activity to do.

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