PUBLIC SPEAKING

Me cosplaying “choosing wine” moment of Rowan Atkinson performance:

I definetely love the topic Irina spoke about. Talking about structure, I must say for me there wasn't enough linkings, sometimes I felt totally lost, didn't notice when and how we moved to the next sub-topic. I liked the tempo, the volume of the speech, but I think that the pitch should be improved, to avoid monotone and keep the audience's attention for every second (but I noted the moments when Ira changed the intonations and I loved it! Don't be afraid to play with your voice!).  I paid a lot of attention on  physical representation of the speech, as that was the topic itself. I noticed how it differed greatly from privious speakers' ( even in the small window on my computer I saw Ira was using gestures and tried to be active. Before she said the phrase the speakers are to avoid fiddling with the hair, she had done it herself for 3 times. I'd reccomend to be more emotional in voice and facial expressions :) The timing was perfect, the main points w...

Sometimes making phone calls makes you put aside small, but important things. Does it sound familiar to you? Well, it does for me... This week I needed to make a call to computer services and ask if they can fix my computer. I swear, I was sitting for 15 minutes in front of the mobile phone and thinking "how should I start?", "should I tell everything at once?" or "should I ask questions?" Then I realised - I need just do, that's it. Well, now I can't even remember how I started the comversation.  Finally, I told what was wrong with the computer and my printer. We discussed how long it will take and all of the details. During the conversation I caught myself thinking I have no stress or worry, this is just service and I need it. Unfortunately, I refused to fix it here as there is a mismatch of timing (I need to leave the city in 2 weeks and it won't be done by that time). It's funny, how we feel confused and insecure before some tasks,...

To see the situation with my speech, I've created the chart, where you can see the average on each aspect. 1. Organisation 19,5 . This criterion was estimated very high. Most of the topics were presented, when I made corrections to my text, so I could work with attention-getter, linking, the body better. 2. Support 13,25 . The topic was mostly practical, so I presentet tasks and to dilute the descriptions of them, I tried to show them myself. 3. Cohention 9,5 . I tried to summarise everything in the end, but there was a comment, that I'd better say something different as conclusion. 4.Vocal Presentation 19,25 . I'm defenetely glad most people noted I took advantage of all rules I spoke about in my presentation. There was an opinion that my tempo was fast to comprehend the information, though in my opinion I did long enough pauses between the words and ideas.  I believe that this happens because of my quite fast tempo of speech in both Russian and English in colloqui...

★ - pause CAPITALS - emphasis yellow - rising tone blue - falling tone GM, everyone! I want to show you some pictures and ask★: what associations do you have with them? Excitement   ★, happiness ★? Maybe prestige and luxury   ★ ? Unfortunately, these pictures display the lie   ★ , the illusion of happiness the companies want to sell us together with the clothes . Getting back to photos, I'm sure none of you associated fashion industry campaigns with damage   ★ , violence ★  and deaths   ★ . However, this industry now is more about destruction rather than wealth and aesthetic . Things weren't like this all the time   ★  that happened when the phenomenon of Fast Fashion appeared. Fast Fashion is cheap, trendy clothing that samples the ideas from catwalk or celebrity culture.★ 95% of the shops in the malls are FF brands - Zara, Adidas, H&M, Mango, Bershka, etc. While preparing the presentation I created a poll, wh...

Only dead fish goes with the flow. People say this phrase when people don’t want to change anything in their lives and just content themselves with what they have (even if what they have is of bad quality, uncomfortable or not-what-you-like). You can start with petty things in your life such as I did. it with perfect cup of coffee. I‘m not obsessed with coffee, but I can easily recognise if the coffee is burnt, there is way too much milk or wise versa. And betweentimes I was in situation when I take sip and  make the “ugh” sound.  Some people just take the cup and drink and feel discontenct. This week I took better for myself.  When I got my cup of coffee,took a sip and and feeling this bitter flavour. I have lots of friend who are baristas and I know how busy they actually are, but that time I said: "Could you redo, please? It is way too bitter". The boy made a wry face, but anyway, he left to da a new cup of coffee. I felt bothersome, confused and annoying. Long after...