Yep, I failed. I messed up my speaking evaluation. I had to present a book in front of a class. First of all, I'll put you in context. Our teacher, facing our lack of participation and of expression, told us we were lame and then told us about this evaluation. So since I don't like being told I am lame, I decided to put some... life in my presentation. I decided to insert jokes inside my initial, boring text. I decided I wouldn't be lame. So yeah, I started saying: "Hi, like everyone who stood here today before me, I will present you a book that I read." On the spot, all my classmates laughed, which was my plan. I also decided to make others laugh for a big strategic reason. We had to make at least 7 minutes in front of the class. Writing and learning a 7 minutes worth text in a week is hard so I wanted to make other laugh so I would stop speaking until others stop laughing and also, when people laugh, they don't really listen until they are serious again. So I kept joking and making others laugh. Then I made a critical mistake. I looked at my teacher. Others were laughing, she was getting mad. She was red, just like a tomato, and I could see that she was mad and despair. At this very moment, I made another mistake. I thought. I thought: "Damn, I just fucked things up and I got a zero." That made me lose my minds and I lost where I was, what I was saying and also I lost my comfort. I tried to get my things back correctly in my head but I failed since I couldn't watch somewhere else than the teacher's face. I managed to improvise the end of my presentation and then, when I went back to my seat, I knew it wasn't done yet. The teacher had something to tell me... in front of the class. She said: "Were you prepared?" so I answered, in all truth: "To be honest, not really. Having a week to do that is hard when you have a life and other school subjects." it was a mistake to say that. Then, she started to rant about how bad were our introductions. Oh damn. She wanted to kill me. She also said that if I was to use humor, I had to be funny. I laughed when she said that, just like everyone. That made my teacher extremely angry. During that time, I was smiling. Why? Because of what I was thinking. I was thinking that if someone else did that and that I was at my place, listening, I would have laughed a lot so why not laughing when it happens to me? So now, when I'm looking at this with a calm head, I'm still amused but a bit more concerned about what I did, since this year's grades will be very important in my future. What I have to give you as a tip is: When speaking in front of a class, never look at the teacher if the said teacher don't know what it is to have fun.
When ever I do a presentation, I always look around the room and try not to make direct eye contact with anyone for for than a few seconds. If you get stuck, you should take a deep breath to relax yourself.
Try getting on her good side. When I have mean professors, I smile at them,laugh at their stupid jokes, and I look like I am interested in what they are lecturing about. If she likes you, she won't try to kill you with her eyes. If there's anything I have learned from having multiple teachers, is that they know when they are liked or not. They now when you think ill of them so they dislike you in return. Kindness makes a difference.
thats right at least pretend to like the teacher n look eager in class...it does really make difference trust me lol
The thing isn't her. She is a nice person outside of her job. The thing's that she takes her job extremely seriously.
Well if you want an A you best take it seriously too. You kinda have to act like she does about the subject. Next time, no jokes....this is a BIG thing to do but...you can apologize to her. Tell her your sorry but you were nervous and you panicked and joked...I usually do not apologize unless I do something really wrong but if you got your teacher like that maybe...
yea there r people like that..the ones who r quite serious at their job unlike in real social life. i say the best way is to show her that u r serious in wat ur studying. better than regretting later wit bad grades
Just never let your parents know. Mine grounded me for like a month when I got an F in Gym for "disrespecting the teacher and interrupting class." Otherwise.... VIVA!
She had a bad day maybe? Or she's an evil robot in a teacher costume.. Still when I present something I just scan the room n don't look at anyone really. Say the presentation sit back down then I'm done. 7 mins is really long tho we normally have 3mins. N I'm in college so u would think it was longer.
I received my results. A note of 67 percent... Surprisingly, it was not the lowest result of the class. Just to introduce you, I needed 60 percents to succeed. It's even more amusing now.