EF56 Class 40

 

Today’s Agenda

·      Attendance

·      Public speaking

·      Spoken presentations 1

·      Continue adjective clauses

·      Continue essay work

 

Final week
Write an essay-optional Thursday

Quiz5 adjective clauses- Tuesday or Wednesday

 

Tuesday

·      Spoken presentations 2

·      Quiz or essay

 

Wednesday

·      Spoken presentations 3

·      Quiz or essay

 

Thursday

·      Optional opportunity to do a replacement quiz and/or test.

·      Optional essay- for marks

If you write it, I will mark. If you don’t write it, it won’t affect your mark.

 

 

Friday- final day

·      Non-instructional

·      One-on-one meets

·      Final marks and comments for report cards. You will be able to see your final marks

*You will be able to pick up your record card in the office the following week.

 

 

 

Advice on Public Speaking

 

It’s very normal to feel nervous about talking to a group.

Everybody is scared or at least wary of speaking in public.

#1 fear of most people is public speaking

If you feel nervous, you are in good company.

worry about   wary of

 

when faced with an opportunity to do some public speaking

autonomic responses – unconscious, automatic body responses, we can’t control them

-                      nervousness

-                      heart racing

-                      upset stomach

-                      knot in your stomach

-                      butterflies in your stomach

-                      jittery, shaky hands

-                      sweating

-                      clammy hands

-                      vision blurred

-                      tunnel vision

-                      voice cracks

-                      have to go to the bathroom

-                      red face, blush, flush

-                      mind goes blank

-                      feel faint, dizzy, light-headed

-                      crying, screaming?

 

These are normal and predicable responses.

Most of us are all in the same boat here. We are in the same shoes.

IDIOM in good company, in the same boat, in the same shoes- we share an experience

 

REMEMBER: We’re all on your side. Everybody wants you to do well.

 

Try to relax, if possible. We are interested in what you have to say.

If you mess up, just take a moment. Take a moment. Then keep going. Don’t apologize.

 

 

Three Tips/piece of advice I Gave My Children for Public Speaking

 

1. Deaf grandmother- speak up, speak a bit louder than usual, slow your rate of speech down a bit, slower than usual- listen to CBC radio announcers- projecting their voices

2. Good dog- energetic tone, energy in your voice, animated, avoid monotone

3. Magic eye – eye contact, right between the eyes

4. Body language- hand gestures, be careful of pacing

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

EXTRA TIP: Reframe in my mind- no group, just individuals

Everybody is on your side.

 

EXTRA TIP #2 – mic usage, proximity to your mouth

 

Slips for giving feedback