A Treasure Trove - my first presentation

Hello everybody,

Due to the fact I cannot find my first PPt presentation for this course anymore I want to talk about it.
Dealing with presentation disasters (click to see the article) is the title. However, I do not want to go in detail about the article, moreover I want to talk about my experience and how I felt before and after the presentation.

I have to be honest, I did not prepare the presentation very well due to the fact we did not receive grades. However, I was not nervous at all. So I went in front of the class and hold my presentation. I received comments from Wouter and Jaap. Both said that I had some good and interesting points and I used short and clear sentences but I could put more effort in to the slides of the PPt. Furthermore, the overall PPt was to colorful.
In addition, I received some critics from our teacher Miryam Wijnhoven as well. I had lots of grammar mistakes and talked most of the time in an informal way. I said words like 'guy' or 'gonna' instead of taking my time to say 'going to'. 
My indicative grade (which became my favorite word in the first weeks of my English course) was 6.65. I was not very happy about my grade. Nevertheless, it was a lesson for me and I knew what I have to take care holding a presentation.
Furthermore, everyone has to hold a presentation, which counts for 25% in week 50 and 2. So I am curious if I can improve my English and my presentation skills and score a high grade.

One very important point in the article 'Dealing with presentation disasters', which I will always remember is you have to keep smiling! It does not matter what happen be relaxed, show that you feel comfortable and SMILE!!!

Even top managers and CEO like Bill Gates might have a presentation failure, but you can see that he keeps smiling, makes fun about the mistake and continues.

And here is my feedback by my teacher:

My learning goals for this course

Hi everyone,

This was our first task in this course. We had to write a 1-paragraph summary about our learning goals for this year.

Due to my first blog entry I want to talk about my goals for this course, English for IB&M 1.
I think everyone of us is able to speak English but who of us is able to talk to top managers and explain and show them his or her ideas.
My first aim is to improve my vocabulary. As you might remember in our first and last lecture we were taught we need only 2000 words to have a common conversation. However, we need around 10,000 words to have an intelligent conversation so that both sides can talk about important topics concerning international business.
Furthermore, I want to improve my reading skills. Although I spend my last ten month in Australia and gained a lot of practice in speaking, I never went through an article or other texts. After my first task to read two chapters in 'Organization Structure' I had some problems understand everything. Most of the time I had to go through one sentence twice.