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Threatened

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I wasn't paying attention when my name was being called. It was only when I stood up that I knew she was expecting me to answer her question which was very much unclear to me.  She seemed reluctant to repeat her question but she did. She expected me to come out with a sentence. I guessed.  I threw a sentence then I happily sat thinking everything was over ... ... yet I was wrong.  She started blabering. Saying how incompetent, how undetermined, how unenthusiastic I was.  I kept silent. Partly guessing her expectations.  Then I knew all she wanted from me was a lengthy introduction that contained all the 5W's. Phewwwww *** The task given was an  easy  one yet having to spontenously answer the question, standing up with the words being typed and was closlely observed by a troop of Grammar Nazis, made me felt  judged ,  insecurd   and  threatened .  Her aim of questioning might be to nurture insights yet what she had nurtured in me at that m