I know a certain English teacher who loves making her students do free topic presentations about literally anything throughout the semester. Great, fantastic, awesome. I don't see why she expects all her students to pay attention and have their eyes literally glued onto the presentation, though.
As adults, it's understandable that we're required to follow certain rules in class and an etiquette. Sure, but jesus christ, It's actually difficult not to fall asleep on a presentation about Naruto, personal presentations about cartoons are not exactly the most interesting thing in the world. So come on, teacher, chill out!
This is just food for thought, honestly. It's okay if you want to challenge your students into presenting something in English, wether it's their favorite tv show or food or what-not. But supervising everyone into listening to it for over 2 hours is kind of mental torture.
I think a better way to make students present something is to encourage them to make it engaging and relatable to their peers. Yes, presentations do not have to include the audience in them every single time, but when it comes to free topic, it's good practice to make the presentation more bearable, interactive, and interesting. As if they were talking to a friend about a topic, when people talk to their friends about their favorite tv show, they don't run along 2 hours about it without letting the other person say something or without making a comment that the other person may find interesting, y'know?
As adults, it's understandable that we're required to follow certain rules in class and an etiquette. Sure, but jesus christ, It's actually difficult not to fall asleep on a presentation about Naruto, personal presentations about cartoons are not exactly the most interesting thing in the world. So come on, teacher, chill out!
This is just food for thought, honestly. It's okay if you want to challenge your students into presenting something in English, wether it's their favorite tv show or food or what-not. But supervising everyone into listening to it for over 2 hours is kind of mental torture.
I think a better way to make students present something is to encourage them to make it engaging and relatable to their peers. Yes, presentations do not have to include the audience in them every single time, but when it comes to free topic, it's good practice to make the presentation more bearable, interactive, and interesting. As if they were talking to a friend about a topic, when people talk to their friends about their favorite tv show, they don't run along 2 hours about it without letting the other person say something or without making a comment that the other person may find interesting, y'know?
A would say that a better option here in order to prepare more interesting presentations is to talk about something you feel passionate about!!
ResponderBorrarSomething you really love! It usually shows when someone is passionate about something :p