If you are not confident in talking to the public, I think it is worth the challenge. Alex gave us good instructions, including preparing and delivering a structured and persuasive speech. He listened to everyone's voice and provided useful advice to everyone. I also learned something from my classmates. Completing the practice speakings and the final presentation, it's a milestone of my English learning experience. Thank you Alex and all classmates. : )

Alex, thanks for your encouraging feedback and doable advice each week. I am really glad to meet you again in public speaking class. You are an active listener and empowering teacher who creates a safe place for trying new things and makes speaking in English easier for me.

Alex is a very encouraging teacher and he also provides lots of opportunities for students to practice presentation skills. I especially like how he guided us to think deeper about our final presentation.

The target of this class is to improve students' ability of public speaking. We had to do a final presentation at the last class. Before that, each student had chances to do practice presentations based on different Ted talks. Those Ted talks were not all good in terms of public speaking skills. However, they were all helpful since you could try to avoid the mistakes appeared in the bad ones. In order to do the practice presentations, we had to absorb the content of the Ted talks and turn into our own words. That process was really challenging. It was interesting to see all the practice presentations because I found everybody had different focus even though we all watched the same video. I felt that we learned from Alex of course and learned from our classmates as well. Alex was very patient and gave sincere comments. He not only told us which parts we could improve but also gave us compliments. At the end of the class, I found myself become less nervous speaking in front of classmates.

Every class was great. I had enough time expressing myself and discussing with other classmates... enjoyed the class! :)

I'm a return student because I feel like practicing English publicly again and again. Alex's class provides the opportunity to do that. Also, thanks for Alex's patience and kindness. I learned something new from my lovely classmates as well. Thank you all for being here, Vivian, Cody, Ed, Steve.

Alex is a great instructor. I am gaining knowledge and tips to make my presentation better. We have ample of time to discuss openly for various topics. I recommend to anyone who wants to improve their public speaking skills.

This is probably my favorite class in MDT ever. Alex knows student's want and need, and is always ready to offer the most useful advices. In the end I find everyone in this class made a big progress. We truly learned a lot from each other. I love all our classmates' final presentations so much, each showing how much effort one had pour in, which fully demonstrate our own abilities and possibilities.

每個人都有至少2次機會針對Ted talk影片做簡報，另外還有期末報告，期末報告的主題不拘，可依照自己的興趣決定。課堂指定的Ted talk影片可以學到很多實用的簡報技巧，由於最後一堂課期末報告的主題是自己決定的，從資料蒐集整理、報告架構、投影片排版到最後上台做簡報，覺得簡報功力進步很多。同學們的報告也十分有趣，學到很多東西。

First of all, massive thanks for Alex' teaching way - patience, positive feedback and encouraging me to relax myself speaking on the stage. I appreciate his kindness and heartwarming quality, especially creating comfortable atmosphere to speak. Actually, I highly recommend those who want to share their ideas and practice public speaking fluently can take his course! More importantly, I hope I will have chance to attend his "Public Speaking" again because I always need second chance and spend more time improving myself. Ha Hopefully, see you soon! Eddie