Preparation
Corresponding to the third and fourth grade curriculum, teachers led students and few parents to take a Chu-Kuang Express field trip from Changhua to ChuNan. The field trip ended with the last stop at CRH. We, Cool-Bow, certainly took the chance to give a narration to present this dynamic and living landmark to our teachers, juniors and their parents.
Assign tasks
Four of our teammates were going to give narrations, so we organized all the information and distribute it into four parts, history, features, Steam Locomotives and Q&A.
Process of preparation
【Make Narration Script】Nov. 27, 2012
It was our first time to give narrations, so we discussed over and over again to make the scripts.
Perusing and making the scripts.
Discussion and suggestion.
Ya! We finished it!
【Make Props】Nov. 28, 2012
To assist with the narration, Chan-Rong, who was responsible for the history part designed the X-mind Chart to present the times and issues. Yu-Hsuan made a fan with folded paper to explain the reason of the name derived from.
Historical X-mind chart by Chan-Rong.
Using the chart to help narrating.
The paper fan helped teammate to introduce the Roundhouse.
【Practice】Nov. 28 to Dec 3, 2012
We tried to memorize our own narration script, practiced to each other in turns and provided suggestions.
We were memorizing the scripts.
Listening to teammate’s narration.
Planning some interactions with teammates in exercise.
Some Tips for the Narration
Speak loudly, clearly and naturally. So the microphone should be prepared in advance.
Try to give the narration in some humorous ways to make the visitors pay full attention in a good mood to the narration.
It might be very nervous to give a speech, so you can take the listeners as the stones to relax and present the narration well.
To memorize the scripts over and over again for avoiding absent-minded situation due to the nervousness. Eye contact with the audiences would show your confidence on narrating.
In addition, narrator should arrive at the scene half an hour earlier to check the condition and weather and make everything settle down.
Source: Changhua Cool-Bow
