December 4, 2015

Toby's Presentation Experience!

Toby here!


On Saturday, 28th of November, class 1J took part in a presentation contest with the other classes of year 1. Our topic was 'The differences between American and Australian life and dialects'. We had been preparing for this presentation over many days and also many late afternoons.


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We started our presentation with the differences between American and Australian life. For example: America and Australia drive on different sides of the road and have the steering wheel on the opposite sides of the vehicle.


We then proceeded to explain the differences between pronunciation and spelling of core words such as tomato and colour respectively. Another key point we added was the dialect and pronunciation of Australian English. For example: In a clear English accent, "I went today" makes perfect sense but in some areas of Australia the accent and pronunciation may be a little unusual and thick, so this phrase may sound like "I went to die". This example was a major part of the presentation and it collected a couple of laughs amongst the audience.


My role within the 1J group was to provide examples and fact check the given information. We choose the best examples and situations and explained them with great detail. We put in a huge effort and it paid off as 1J won the entire competition between 10 other classes.


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It was a great experience as I got to to stand up with a couple of my class mates and say a couple of lines amongst the 400 students. one thing I found interesting while taking part in the presentation was the use of Katakana / loan-words in Japanese that come from American counterparts such as 'pinchi-hittaa'.


I am very lucky and fortunate to be in this class as they are very helpful, friendly and welcoming to me.

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