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Good morning Ladies and Gentlemen,

first of all, thanks for attending to the meeting, I know it is very early in the morning, though. We are from Online experience, and the purpose of our presentation is to provide you with recommendations and advice to improve your website and sales....

That is the way I introduced the presentation. The presentation counts for 25% of the total grade. Thus, I have to be honest, I was very nervous. Usually, I do not prepare at all for presentations, but this time I had to, I mean it counts for 25% of the final grade as mentioned previously.

Nevertheless, let me start from the very beginning. Louis, Koen and my humble self made a little brainstorming and prepared the PPt.

Than, I questioned myself: Do I need to prepare anything else? Shall I write a script for myself?

Usually, I go in front of class and start talking, if do not know what I have to talk I keep smiling (as mentioned previously in my blog) and start my sentence again or try to make something funny to make the people and me relaxed. So far it worked out fine for me.

Unfortunately, I knew this time is no excuse I cannot mess it up. I have to be serious and try to minimize my mistakes. There is no time for mistakes anymore...

... to hold the presentation as good as I can I decided to prescribe my text and learn it by heart. However, I realized very quick I cannot learn my text by hard, I would do mistakes and make myself nervous. Thus, I decided to write down the most important keyword and learn them by heart. Since we had to present in a formal way and this time we had an English teacher in front of us and not like in all other courses, I thought it would be a good way to prepare the presentation.

And now to the presentation itself. As I said previously, I did the introduction part and was bloody nervous. I never had it before in Uni. Nevertheless, I got through the first part and made the stage free for  Louis so that I could take a step back and calm down. While Louis and Koen presented I could not pay any attention on them. I was thinking about my final part: What if I forget the keywords? What if I talk in an awkward English out of the sudden?

Anyway, the time flew and it was my turn now (I had to present slide 8 and 9). I tried to appear calm but I was not I guess. However, when I turned from slide 8 to 9 I wanted to look as professional as possible. So I put before the presentation a cup of water next to the computer to take a sip out to slow the presentation down, but when I grabbed the cup I recognized how I trembled. That is the point where I thought, what the hell is wrong with me? It is only a presentation! Thus, I was quite for like 5 seconds and smiled, since I learned it from my first presentation and finally continued my last part of the presentation.

All in all, the presentation was very good. Even the teacher was not able to ask any questions, so we covered everything. I did some little pronunciation mistakes and a little grammar mistake, but it is fine for me, because usually I do some more mistakes holding a presentation....

Finally I want to show you the difference between my first and last presentation in English 1:

The Big Help

Hi everyone,

I want to make a little entry and talk about what is a great help for me in my English course.
A few weeks ago we had an English exam, I have to be honest it did not went well for me. Nevertheless, I learned a lot of vocabularies for the exam out of the AWL (academic word list). I went through the entire list and marked every word, which I could not make up a sentence with. Thus, I ended up with an endless list of vocabularies...  I had no other choice than starting right away, obviously I did not had a look on the list in time. This might be the reason, why I was not happy with my grade in the exam.

Usually I do look pretty much the same. So my advice, start learning in time.

Anyway, I was not going to talk about my exam at this stage. Way more important is that the AWL helped me a lot with understanding the books better, which we have to read in other courses.
Learning the AWL made it easier for me to understand what I read and it is not just going to help me here in my first semester, this list will help me in my future study program as well as in my future life. So, it is a good advice to go through the list and learn all vocabularies which you think you do not understand.

Here is the AWL:

Awl

Go through and find out how many words you do not understand, write them down and learn every day 10 of them, I promise you, you are going to understand everything you read a lot better in only 6 weeks.

So everybody, keep on going with learning. I hope I could give a good advice.