Here’s the kind of exercise we did in class yesterday, which you have to do again on your own in order to improve your fluency:
Think about your earliest memory and distribute the information according to the following outline:
1 – When and where the event took place
2 – What happened
3 – How you felt then / feel now that you remember it
You may take notes and look up vocabulary to build up a beautiful account. You can even write the whole thing down, although you shouldn’t read it when you tell it.
Practise your mini-presentation with a timer in hand. It should be at least two minutes long.
Rehearse a second time, telling the same things as the first time. But now set a time limit of 1m 30s.
Produce your mini-presentation a third time, limiting it now to 1 minute only.
If you record the whole exercise you’ll see that the third time you do it, the words run together, there are fewer hesitations, and that you have even corrected yourself as regards grammar, pronunciation, and so on.
Be prepared to present your earliest memory to the rest of the class on Tuesday!
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