Presentation Day. Some of them had dressed up in suits and ties, no baseball caps - they took it very seriously.
I was surprised at how nervous they were - they presented in pairs and the first to go had a couple of long silences before they could compose themselves and carry on. It seemed to set the tone and the others were nearly as scared. Overall though, they did extremely well and I felt quite proud of them. I only spotted 1 spelling mistake on Powerpoint and one glaring pronunciation error. There is absolutely no excuse for pron errors, particularly as there are good pron dictionaries online. It was the pair doing the effect of the internet on society who gave the wrong stress for 'pornography' but it was so glaring. One pair did 'Nuclear power: good or evil?' and gave the position of both sides very well. Unfortunately the physics teacher couldn't be there as I wanted to check how good he found the technical content but others more knowledgeable than me about such things (not difficult) seemed reasonably impressed.
There were about 30 in the audience made up of fellow students and teachers and the presenters coped very well with insistent questioning in the Q&A sessions, one even managing 'I believe that's beyond the scope of this presentation'. Good girl!
Now I just need to write up reports and give them actual marks. That can be quite drawn out as the criteria are fairly involved. Never mind, didn't have much planned for the weekend anyway ...
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