Talking About the Talk

We have spent a long time writing this speech, from researching to revising, meeting a lot of problems and fixing them steps by steps.
First of all, I think there are several things I have done well. To begin with, I extremely like my topic. China is one of the most familiar things with me, therefore I can easily write the true content sincerely. I picked five small topics at first, but found it difficult  to be detailed and shortened it to three topics that I interested in most. To my surprises, these topics also interested my roommates and they have given me a lot of useful advise. Secondly, the personal experience in my speech are intriguing. When I first wrote the speech, I hardly added any personal experience but most resources. However, when I noticed that personal experience is needed, my speech started to be more fluent. I added a lot of happy memory during my childhood. The process was fun, thinking back the old days really brought me a bunch of happiness and it is the first time that I wanted to spread my felling by this speech. Luckily, that worked. The special experience attracted my roommates' interests which made me a little proud. 

Nevertheless, significant weaknesses are showen in my speech while using resources is one of the biggest problem. In my first draft, I used nearly all reasources to construct my speech. What was worse, I even did not do correct citation. Many resources were confusing too. Their language was complicated and hard to understand. Besides, I even could not state my thesis. The contents and the thesis were sometime out of relevance. 

As for my in-class delivery, I personally think it was fine. Although some of the pronunciation was incorrect, most of them was articulate. My pace was a little bit fast which I can control next time. In my opinion, the most of importance thing is that I should get more familiar with the content. There were times that I could not breath smoothly because the sentences were too long... However, the good thing is that because of the familiarity, I could express my emotion correctly and genuinely like telling a story without hesitating. 

Finally, I have learnt from watching others practice and deliver their speeches. First, I noticed that while standing without an iPad, people's hands might have a lot of small movements out of control. To deal with this, I think that I would like to have some gestures which could express my emotion with my hands like putting them on my heart. This may help me cover up my tension. Besides, pauses are needed. When putting forward a question or transfer to another topic, pausing for a while would help audience follow the speaker better. Last but not least, being confident is always better than being nervous.

All in all, I belive that this Tedtalk will be really good after a long-time preparation. I hope that I can get familiar with the speech as soon as possible and even memorize it.