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During this course we have to perfom 2 speeches, one of which is persuasive. To begin with I'd like to share the general statement and some objecteves. General statement: Stress is useful. Objecteves:  to talk about what stress is and how often do we face it to find positive and negative sides of the stress to tell why stress can be helpful and useful 

This time I decided to step over my fear of marshrutka-bus drivers and to ask for a stop for no reason. Actually, drivers are not the friendliest people in the world, so it's quite terrifying. It was not easy at all, I would say. It was morning, when everyone is smiling and happy to see you. Of course, not. People were angry and unfriendly, so was the driver. It's quite a distance between the town I live in and university, that's why marshrutka-bus sets off only when it's completely full and stops only at those places where people need. And that was my moment of glory, when I asked for a stop at the place where nobody ever drops off. Bus had stopped and I kept silence. After a while people and the driver asked me is everything fine or not and I answered that I asked for a wrong stop. Remarkable, that everything was fine. People did not look at me as if I were an enemy, driver asked where I need to stop and said, that he will remind me about it. Strange, but true....

I suppose everyone had an experience of being lost before starting to write a speech: all your bright ideas fade away, you find yourself an excuse to do it later and so on. And now there is a way out, some tips to make your brain work a get yourself prepared: One letter First of all we need to think about 10 words which start from the same letter. Let this letter be ''b''. So the words are: bycicle, beans, bright, bargain, beautiful, book, balloon, beaf, breakfast, basket, Random words This task is about making random words a unit, like creating a story with absolutely random words. The website https://www.textfixer.com/tools/random-words.php   will help me to create these words. I've been to the jungle and I saw an animal, apparently it was an iguana,  which is a good murderer because I could see a lot of preys. Fortunately, I was smart enough not to come close to it, and I put a grid to catch it.  Creative writing prompts ...

Life is something truly unpredictable. I was going to complete my second challenge, to talk to a quietest person in the university, but you can never know what life has prepared for you. So I accidentally have completed my #10 challenge and I have mixed emotions. Challenge was to tell a person I care about how much I actually care and I was absolutely unprepared for that talk. This person and I were alone outside and the words just broke out of my mouth. I kept silence afterwards for a couple of seconds and then we continued our commincation. I still feel quite ashamed that I literally shouted at person I care how much I care. I hope everything will be fine, but except that feeling I know feel free. Like something very heavy has fallen down from my shoulders. At least I was brave enough to do it, yet I'm afraid I spoiled everything. Next time I need to do something easy as a challenge I suppose.  

Some people can impress just in several minutes using just several words.  I've watched 3 absolutely different speeches but all of them have truly touched my soul.  Ken Robinson is a very smart man. He's got the knowledge, he's got sense of humor and magnificent life experience I would say.  I think he's put several objectives before his speech. Of course he wanted to be straight in time, he told about it several times.  He definately wanted to change people's opinion on the topic he was talking about. He tried to make people see and understand, that there is a talent in everyone but the problem is that some people cannot find it inside their head and also, that other people do not try to help them with the searching.  He also paid a lot of attention to the examples during his speech: each example was according to the certain point and was logical, it was easy to follow.  Matthew McConaughey is a man who has brought a great thought to my mind aft...

Everybody understands how important is to set certain objectives and to be sure in what you say. Of course, you have to be prepared, and it's not only about making speech, but also about preparing yourself psychologically, that's why we should ask ourselves some questions:  - Why should I want to talk about this? - Why should anybody want to listen to me? - What need in the audience do I want to have satisfied when I have finished speaking? - When they all walk away what state would I like them to leave in? Let's look at the examples and answer the questions.  1. If I were a school teacher and had to give a speech about childrens' behaviour I think I would answer "because once I'll have my own children'' to the first question. I am sure that it's essential to make children understand, that parents will not advise bad things and if they listen to them they will succeed in lots of things.  The second question is an easy one: people should lis...

I remember myself feeling awkward because I had stage fright symptoms but never talked to anyone about them. Now I feel awkward because I know about them, but I have them all.  I remember as it was yesterday how I had to give a speech during the university contests in my first year and how nervous I was. I came into the classroom full of confidence in my abilities, but one step forward of the main judge and all my confidence collapsed. My breathing became so loud as if I had a plane in my lungs which is about to be off the ground. I couldn't feel the pen with my fingers because they were cold like the temperature was below zero and at the same time I've been sweating as if I had run 5 km marathon. I couldn't sit on my chair because I wanted to move, to do something, but as soon as I came on the stage - everything vanished. I wanted to lay down and nothing more, all my energy left my body and I was alone, what's worse - I was alone and sweaty.  Anyway it turned out q...

You never know what is waiting for you just in a second ahead so it's easy to understand the fear of it. You don't know what is going to happen to you.  Once Antoine de Saint-Exupery said: ''Only the unknown frightens men. But once a man has faced the unknown, that terror becomes the known'' I am sure that this describes everything in our life, and even the course task helps us to be prepared for everything. You would never do anything from the list I mention below in everyday life, but when it is nessessary to do you will not hesitate.  It's like watching a horrow movie: when you sit in front of the screen for the first time you're shivering, but the next time you watch it you will be laghing about what had scared you the last time. So, my list of challenges is: 1) on Monday morning say "Good morning lady, how are you? " to a woman who sells the tickets on the train station 2) to start a dialogue with the quitest person ...

Only because you say more - doesn't mean, that people will remember I'm more than just impressed with the speech was given by Aaron Beverly. He reminded me of my school years when I tried to be noticed, I wanted people to see me and that's why I always gave my two cents in each small talk I entered. No need to say - people were not quite satisfied with my behavior and no one had told me that it was not matter how many words you say, it counts how valuable you make them. If I were a judge at the contest I would have given Aaron the first prize without thinking a minute and I will try to explain why. Speech content Aaron made his speech clear enough to follow, he started with the great simbiosis: introduction and an example which directs you to the main part, there was logical connection between subjects in his speech like statement - proof/example - statement which in the end followd into a conclusion. After each topic of his speech he provided a valuable exam...