tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3569094693374678535.post5900775480813820145..comments2024-01-16T03:18:55.800-05:00Comments on Vidkid20's Sim Lair: 2nd day of college: I'm stuck making speeches! Blah!Vidkid20http://www.blogger.com/profile/04625001532414981412noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3569094693374678535.post-41158736177303433492012-09-20T06:58:03.544-04:002012-09-20T06:58:03.544-04:00Choose a subject you know really well so you don&#...Choose a subject you know really well so you don't have to remember the content. And make it something you enjoy too. I remember a Thai student I studied with wasn't very confident about speaking in English so she did a cooking class for her favourite dish as her presentation. missticklehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11890060421069914561noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3569094693374678535.post-26604670736309711562012-09-20T04:47:33.797-04:002012-09-20T04:47:33.797-04:00Poor Vid! Text books are very expensive for any c...Poor Vid! Text books are very expensive for any course, I think, certainly they are over here. At uni I bought a lot of them second-hand from students who were moving up into the next year, as long as they were the right edition and they hadn't scrawled all over them, lol! <br /><br />If it helps at all, giving presentations does get easier with practice. The first couple might be unnerving, but you get used to it. The best advice I received was to purposely talk a little more slowly than normal, because if you are nervous the natural tendency is to speed up and then you can just sound like you're gabbling. Also then you can say less in the 4 minutes if you ;)Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12688137748312371428noreply@blogger.com