My Oral Presentation - Video, Transcription & Self-Evaluation

Here's the transcription:

So, good morning everybody, I hope you all did well on the weekend and you'r ready for my oral presentation. So, today I'm going to talk about an island you all should know and.. Well, the image should say everything, today I'm going to talk about Madagascar. I chose it because I think it's a country everybody knows, but noone pays much attention to.

So... You all should know where Madagascar is, it's that quite big island at the eastern coast of Africa. Ummm... some.. general things about the country: it has a population of approximately twenty-milion five-hundred thousand people and there are three official languages: Malagasy, English and French. It was, some years ago, a French colony, but it became independent in nineteen-sixty. Umm.. there are four religions, these are.. half of the population still follows the traditional religion, fourty-five % are Christian and there are some people that believe in Islamism and Hinduism. Umm.. for now, I'll focus on the traditional religion, because you all should know the other ones.

Soo, the traditional Malagasy religion focusses on the link between life and death and they think that dead people still can influence their fate and their future. Soo... mm.. they have a great respect for their ancestors. Umm..

There are different festivals in Madagascar, so I just the two people consider most important there. So the first one is Hira Gasy, it's a festival that only lasts one day but is really important for the people there. The celebrate it in honor of an ancient king that saved the people from a natural catastrophe. There are three parts: The first one is like an introduction that only lasts ten minutes and it's called Sasitehaka. The main part, that lasts several hours, is called Renihira and there are dance and music performances and it's when the main topic of the festival comes out. the last part is like the ending, it's not really so special.
the second festival is Famadinaha. They celebrate it to represent the main point of their religion, the link between life and death. They actually take the bones of the dead people and take it to another tomb called Lambamena. It's to show them their respect.

then, in Madagascar there's simple, but food with great variety. It's basically nearly always rice, called Vary, that goes with some kind of accompaniment called Laoka. It can be chicken.. nearly anything: crab, porc, lamb, fish.. And a very famous snack is called Koba, it's a plate of rice with coconut, chicken and other things.
Umm.. soooo... yeah, I think I didn't forget anything, so.. For me it was a quite interesting country and.. that's nearly all I can tell you about it. Soo, are there any questions?

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Now my self-evaluation:

I used a Powerpoint which pretended to be very visual. I wanted to put some music, but I couldn't find what I was looking for. The Powerpoint helped me quite well, Because there were some difficult words. My presentation was almost too short, the next should be a bit longer.
My body language was OK, I looked at the audience and my gesture was also better than last time. Bad thing is, this time I read more from my notes than last time. That needs to improve again.
I organized my ideas in order of importance, Divided by different topics, such as geography and general information, religion, culture... I used connectors, but should have linked better the different subtopics.
I think I explained new and interesting things to the aduience because it's always (at least for me!) interesting to know more about foreign cultures. The information is clear, but not too detailed because it was difficult to fit a lot of details into the 5-7 minutes limit. My information comes from different sources on the internet, I don't knew about the festivals and other things. So I obviously looked up the information.

I think my grammar is correct, I sometimes said some things wrong, but corrected myself. I think my vocabulary could have been a bit better because I didn't use too many synonyms. I used sentence linkers, but they could have been a bit more. Pause fillers were almost too much! I shouldn't say so many the next time.
I knew how to pronounce all the words, but sometimes I pronounced them wrong without knowing. I didn't check most of the pronunciation because I already knew it, but I think I did it allright. I spoke with quite a few breaks, but I think it was still ok.

In conclusion, I think I deserve a 7, because the presentation was not bad, but a bit short, I read a bit too much and got stuck sometimes.