You are ready for presenting the first speech, and please check whether you have finished the following:

• Practice your presentation several times.

• Review your presentation with the teacher through Wechat.

• Discuss any special points, like in what aspect you hope he/she pay attention to, with your evaluator before giving the speech.

• Give the evaluator your draft or outline.

• Give the evaluator your evaluation form before you speak, so he/she can write feedback to you.

If all things are done, smile to yourself and go to the stage! Good luck!

After you finished your speech, don't be discouraged if your evaluator misunderstood your point. The evaluation is a learning-by-doing skill, just as speaking is. Your evaluator was merely showling his/her own opinion which you could simply understand as suggestions.

You are going to be the speech evaluator soon. Have you tried the following steps for your role?

• Talk to the speaker about his/her speech and make sure he/she prepared well.

• Read carefully on the Evaluators' Role in the previous session and know clearly about what are the objectives of this task.

• Ask teacher's suggestions for the points your are not sure.

You have finished the previous three steps. When your speaker is delievering the speech please listen very carefully about the following:

• structure of the speech

• the most impressive part that attract you

• the best use of words or sentences

I strongly suggest you take notes for the whole session which will be useful to organize your speech without doubt.

Yes, your notes are ready and you will give your evaluation soon. I believe you can make it!