Listening and Speaking

LnS has always been my favourite class since it is quite relax compared to the other classes and it involves a lot of giving speech in front of the class (which is something that I love because it develops my confidence). Madam Ain was our lecturer for this semester and I love herrr.

Demonstrative Speech

We were assigned to do a demonstrative speech where each one of us needs to deliver a speech on how to make or do something. It can be anything that we feel like sharing. As for me, I did a demo on how to make coffee scrub for buffing away the makeup residue. I felt the topic was quite interesting since everyone takes care of their skin appearance and wear makeup everyday (even the boys too! Ive seen a boy wearing makeup and he slayed like Bretman Rock lol). Okay my point is, even boys can relate so why not.

So to sum it up, I guess I did pretty well alhamdulillah. Here are the things that I learned through out the process of completing this assignment :

I learned how to keep my speech organised

I was able to overcome my stage fright and control my nerve while delivering my speech

I managed to do two things at a time, which is to do the demo and to explain my steps.

The result :

14.8 / 15

The IPA chart

The moment I saw this chart, the first thing that popped out in my head was 'Are we gonna learn a new language?' Yet I was wrong. Tbh I have never heard of IPA chart before. This is something new to me. Yet I had fun learning this topic because it made TESL students like having a secret language and only us can read it haha ok just kidding duh.

So, to apply this thing you would need a lot of exercises since our pronunciation is different to the natives. For me, I look for the past years questions and use it as my weekly exercise. Wew sounds weird but that's just because you're not used to it. I love this topic so I don't think doing phonetic exercise weekly is something weird or nerdy.

By learning this chart, it helps me to know how words are pronounced. For example, thou is pronounced as th-aw and not dow. So it improves my English knowledge as well as act some sort of entertainment to us. (We even tweeted using these symbols yalls)