齐全的英语演讲比赛点评模板.docx

There are several aspects of language and speaking that I would like to focus on today for considerations to allow you to improve moving forward.　First, the area of pronunciation and delivery. Some of you, especially when you are nervous, should focus more on diction and pronunciation. Specifically, try not to swallow your articles like a and the or little connectors like of Take a breath, take your time. and let each word be sounded. Similarly, make sure you sound final consonants, especially the -ed in your past tenses. This is one of the things that Chinese, even the good ones, the really good ones, when you start speaking quickly and passionately, forget. So, pay a lot of attention and be conscious that thats something that you may know that the grammars, grammatical and structural rules and not sound that final consonant or you may be a little fuzzy on what the past tenses, but that some- thing that makes a big difference in a competition,　Finally, in the area of pronunciation for all you students, not just the contestants here today, please, the word the, th-: put your tongue between your teeth. Its not da, its the; its not der. its their; its not utter. its other. You can do this, you can do this, Practice on the way to class, practice in the shower, practice wherever but dont say da, its the.　Second category of feedback is I want to talk very briefly about lexicon and vocabulary. As I mentioned, I felt that your use of lexicon in todays presentation was quite sophisticated and showed a lot of preparation. Most of you may have noticed that in the contemporaneous, spontaneous remarks and questions, the level of vocabulary came down a notch or two. Thats very natural: some- thing that we all have to work on. But there were a couple of I think. theres three examples that Id like to share with you to take home to work on. Number one, since the topic was ecology, when you talk about living in harmony with da za ren, is it the nature or nature? Nature! Is not the n