The 500-word description by group 4.

As a group (Helen Galkina, Jonathan Ouedraogo and Yiming Zhang), we got assignment to pick one grammar topic and present it. Unfortunately, all of us had different topics and it was hard decision to choose one. After checking all topics, we decided to present “Writing a business letter or memo". We thought that it could be helpful for students to learn something from this topic because we believed that students should know how business letter and memo look like and how to write them.

            We divided our topic on three different sections. First section was about “Business letter” and it was presented by me (Helen Galkina). I used two internet resources for that:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_letter and http://www.ehow.com/how_8662903_write-business-letter-sample-consultant.html.  

Second section was about “Memo” and it was presented by Jonathan Ouedraogo. He also used two internet resources for that: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memorandum and http://www.ehow.com/how_4827518_write-formal-business-memo.html.

And the last section was about “The difference between the Business letter and Memo” and it was presented by Yiming Zhang. He used two Internet resources as well for that: http://www.blurtit.com/q391547.html and http://www.ehow.com/info_8520853_difference-letter-format-memo-format.html.

Later on, when we found all information about our topic “Business letter and memo” Jonathan Ouedraogo and I (Helen Galkina) decided to present it in new program which called PREZI. “It is a new and impressive "zooming" presentation editor that currently is making the rounds at numerous design blogs and online press. Presenting with Prezi enables one to follow non-linear storylines, embed movies, show meta relations between topics, zoom into the finest details, and have transitions that pan, zoom and rotate.” (http://infosthetics.com/archives/2009/04/prezi_online_zooming_presentation_editor.html).

If you are interesting in this program you can check this video out:

         

 

Also, you can go on this website www.prezi.com to find some more information and register for free if you want.

            When we were done with editing all information in Prezi we faced difficulty that someone of us wasn’t really familiar with the program. That was one of our bad parts of the presentation. The second bad part was that not everyone was prepared to present the topic. That’s why some of us had to read. In fact, when we were presenting our topic we had some kind of problems.

              Therefore, we have to practice more if we want to give a good presentation. I think the best ways to present topic are:

• To make outline in your presentation which helps you to get an idea and follow that idea step by step;
• The information should be short and clear;
• Think about your audience that they won't fell asleep;
• Give examples from your personal or someones life experience;
• Be prepared for the presentation;
• Avoid plagiarism. (Don't forget to use quotation marks when you are using someone else's work and always cite it as reference)
• Also, we have to remember that our presentation should always has introduction, body and conclusion.

All in all, I think our presentation was good. Thank you my partners for help and my classmates for attention! I believe that we learned our mistakes and hope we will improve them next time.