English Language Proficiency (ELP)

ISL 4

REFLECTION On 12 July 2012, a forum has been held. The theme of the forum was Endangered Animals and the title was Why We Should Save The Endangered Animals. There was four speakers from different groups. The speakers were Muhammad Amar Safwan bin Hashim that was from my group, Aldzarfiq bin Roslan, Mitchell Yomin and Thumawathy a/p Balan. As a group work, my group members discussed and found the information for the forum. We helped our group presenter, Muhammad Amar Safwan to find the details and information about Endangered Animals.

As I look back on the forum presented, I definitely found that to make an interesting and meaningful forum, the presenter must have an interest and a great knowledge of the topic. Some of the presenter did not prepared well for the forum so, that would effect their talk for the forum. For future forum, I believe more research must go into the topic if I am not so familiar with it. Other than that, there were also a presenter that talked on the topic with a full of details. I also knew many reasons why we should save endangered animals. The animals became extinct because of logging, hunting and business purpose. From the forum too, I knew a new ways to save endangered animals by using Gene Bank to save animals that become extinct.

For the next forum or other presentation, I need to speak to my fellow trainees more often for me to speak more fluently, as I think I will be able to learn from them. Nervousness is a major problem for many people during public speaking. I was nervous when speak in front and I thought that it may have resulted in me leaving out parts of what I was going to say. I think that nervousness is a problem that can only be solved with experience and every presentation I believe that I will get better at dealing with it.