I first and foremost want to say that I hated my presentation. I didn’t feel prepared and everything seemed to lap over one another. I presented my last speech on how to play the game of tennis. I felt that I was knowledgeable to speak on this subject since I played tennis for the last 6yrs and have been a fan of it all my life (Go Serena!!). The only thing is that I should of thought again before I choose this topic because only having 4 minutes to give a “how to” play this game is impossible. I tried to explain the court, which is one of the most important elements to know when playing tennis. Without knowing anything about the court someone can go out there and just hit balls all over the place and eventually, God forbid hurt someone or themselves. I then explained the scoring process which has to be the other most important thing to tennis. The scoring allows individuals to know when to serve and where to serve to. I felt comfortable explaining these things but that’s not all that tennis is made up of. In order to play you must know how to hit so I needed to explain the different serves and swings which I felt stated to complicate my speech.

I felt that my tone was good, but because I had so much information to speak about, I lacked eye contact and the whole ideal of it being an extemporaneous speech went out the door because I had to continue to look on my note cards in order to stay on track. If I had the chance to do it all over again I would probably do the same topic but I would cut some of the things I spoke about. I would practice more cause time was not my friend during this presentation.