You will be performing in front of a large audience, and was the last time you stood on stage at a school matinee? Study the topic in advance, try to grab the attention of the audience and not let the audience get bored.
Instructions
Step 1
Stay confident, straighten your shoulders, straighten your back. Greet your audience. If you have to sight-read, be sure to watch your posture. Do not put your head down, even if you peep into the cheat sheet. When the speaker's head is bent over the table, speech is quieter. And if the audience has to strain their ears, then they will quickly get tired and lose interest in the performance. Shortsighted speakers should wear glasses or lenses to feel more confident.
Step 2
Divide the hall visually into three parts. Throughout your talk, look at each part for a few seconds. The fact is that continuous reading without eye contact with listeners turns into a monotonous set of words that are difficult to discern by ear, let alone analyze. Pause, change intonation.
Step 3
If you have a long presentation planned (lecture, talk, etc.), remember that any audience will best accept a monologue no more than 20 minutes long. Therefore, focus your audience on the main points of the talk at the beginning of the speech. Your task is to interest the public. To do this, from time to time ask the listeners questions, preferably alternative ones, the answers to which can be chosen from two options, or closed ones, requiring a “yes” or “no” answer.
Step 4
In order not to experience panic in front of a large audience, study the topic of the story beforehand. The better you know the subject of your presentation, the more likely you are to deliver it flawlessly. If it involves follow-up discussion, consider the answers to all obvious and provocative questions. Even if those are not foreseen, and you will need, say, just make a solemn speech, be sure to rehearse it in front of the mirror.
