Welcome! Usain Bolt!
I was pleased
to have you in my Monday Euphony Presentation Class. In your Moojuk history,
not a day went by without delivering presentations on the stage, not a week went
by without being on the stage, especially in my class. All your blood and sweat
for having your English skill improved paid off. And this became a driving
force to get ahead in your lifetime in Moojuk!
Ahead of
beginning my comments, I would like to explain the purpose of this class. It
was expressly designed for checking each person’s presentation
manner on the stage. On Mondays, presenters would convey what they had
memorized during a week. Keeping gestures, pronunciation, stress and chunk
between words in check comes to a quantum leap of your English Presentation
Skill. Let me allow check out these matters.
<Pronunciation>
Please imitate each word by listening to voice records on the
following site.
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary
My words cannot
describe how superb your presentation was. Great! Only one mistake was found.
D[o]se
Above alphabet ‘O’
sounds like somewhere between ‘ㅗ’ and ‘ㅓ’, not ‘ㅏ’.
D[o]cumented
Here is ‘O’ sounded like ‘ㅏ’
Uni[q]ue
Your ‘Q’ sound
is often voiced like Alphabet ‘C’. For having your pronunciation enhance, I
would like you to check your shape of mouth by the time of voicing ‘Q’ sound.
Making your lips round (O-shape) is best way to pronounce ‘Q’ exactly. And its
phonic sound maybe heard like ‘Qwuh’. Listening to pronunciations of ‘Queen,
Equal, and Quality’ would be helpful to understand this.
Syllabic, Phoenician
The above words’ pronunciations was about to be wrong. Check these
matters on the online Dictionary.
<Long Vowel Sound & Stress>
From now on,
rather than showing each phonetic alphabet, I will let you know stress and long
vowel sound on words with simple method.
Red colored character = It is the alphabet you ought to put stress on.
Underlined
character = It is the
alphabet you must voice long vowel sound.
Feeling, Uneducated,
Accompany, Gradual,
Evolution, Current,
Precedent, Illiteracy,
Existence
<Ending Sound>
‘Of these one
hundred languages, Hangul is the only alphabet for which the inventor, theory
and motives behind its creation have been fully documented. Roman characters have their origins in the hieroglyphics of
Egypt and the syllabic Phoenician alphabets, and had to undergo a
process of gradual evolution to become what they are today.’
Above sentences
were hard to understand and catch. Especially, the words highlighted by red
color were too fast, and you stumbled over the words. Do not be hurry and
attempt to convey this story in peace.
<Intonation>
You successfully followed its audio file’s intonation. However,
you would better to make all the sentences fluently through reading your part more
than 20 times.
<Manner>
Being on the stage requires not only wearing smiles on your face,
but also pretending to be outgoing so that audiences are able to focus on your
presentation. In this point of view, you would better keep your facial
expression in check and try not to seem like a person who has cold heart. Be
gentle and tender with audiences.
<Presentation History and Problems>
Date
|
Problems
|
02-09
|
Wrong Intonations
|
02-23
|
Busan
Dialectal Intonations, No Smile on Your Face
|
I had noticed
your problematic manners on the above table. According to my research, 100% of
your unappropriated behaviors were related to your intonation. What is the
better way to tackle this problem? That is listening. You must to keep this
habitual thing at bay though listening to its audio file attentively and
intensively.
<Mission>
Hey, Usain
Bolt! Have you won many friends around you? What if you and I ran across earlier
than now, we would share many things together. But unfortunately it would not happen.
Watching your improvement in your presentation for two weeks, I have been
gratified. While joking with you, I was satisfied with the fact that we built
ourselves friendship. Even though I have been amused and delighted by your
presence in my class, a wave of indescribably sorrowful emotions are surging
onwards. This is because two months of my assistant’s life is now drawing to an
end.
While I was
thinking of what would be the best quote for my farewell greetings, I found the
words which took to my heart.
It is Dalai
Lama’s quote;
Old
friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day
passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful. A
meaningful friend or a meaningful day!
My classmate! My
days are now passing away to an end. It means the days with new assistant will
appear. Though my days passed, you will spend many days meaningfully and
academically with the better person. .
Therefore I
decided not to feel sad, filed with sorrow. On Mondays, what better way was there
to develop your day with a good command of English than to attend Euphony
Classes, especially Monday Euphony class?
Make your day
meaningful, develop your day with Euphony class, and do not forget to get
involved in weekly presentation contest in Monday Euphony Class. Thank you
always.