Yes, so I have a speech coming up in spanish class...oh yay!  Haha, anyways, I need some help.  \n\nFirst of all I divided it up into eight sections because it's an eight minute speech.  The problem I am having is coming up with one more subject.  So far, I have an intro, closing, different types of cameras, printing pictures, projects, taking a picture, and camera parts.  I need one more and I may do it on the history of the camera, but I don't think thats a good idea.\n\nAnd secondly, I'm not the best at giving speeches because I hate being in front of people.  Does anyone have any suggestions on over coming my fear?\n\nThanks for the help!
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focus on the class and just be yourself as if your at a party and jst chillin out, they're your friends in there and the ones that aren't your friends are just people who want to aspite to be just like you (a confident strong woman who desires success), so why give them the opportunity to see you nervous.\n\nGood luck on the day but i guess you dont need it now, get out there and be smart, real and full of confidence girl.\n\nIt's just a sea of faces and they all blend into one.... one, other person who is wishing, i hope it's not me next.
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PRACTICE, i know uve heard it a million times.By now you expect yourself to stammer. you are going to need to do alot of talking to yourself practice getting it right when theres no audiance, plan what u are gonna say and pactice just being able to get it done. then mov on to publick stuff, MAKE yourself speak up in groups. and remember that everyone has problems, you arent gonna get thr over night, but one of the best publick speakers ive ever heard STAMMERED a little during his speach, i met him aftrward, and he said about what you said in your question. it had been a life long struggle for him too.
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Google is a wonderful idea. I would also have business cards printed with your certification or experience listed and the website. There are many adults that would be interested. When you meet people then pass out your card. Of course this would just be local, but could be a start.\n\nMail your cards to friends that live in other cities/states.\n\nWould you tutor high school students online? Put that on the card too! Take your card (a few of them) to the guidance counselors at local high schools. \n\nDo you have a web page that explains how people will learn? What is your curriculum? Will they speak? Will there be listening? If you do not have that, then perhaps make a flyer explaining it for when people inquire. Or make a web page and print it and keep it handy.\n\nYour friends can help. I am a Spanish teacher and hear people say all the time "I always wished that I could speak Spanish...". I would hand them your flyer, or your card with the web address.\n\nIf that does not get you where you want to be... try selling your course on ebay. List it as a course with a fixed "buy it now" price. When people sign up you can have a start date. It might just work...
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If the stories are full length, you don't have time to read them all tonight.  I suggest skimming them and (this is BAD and I DISAPPROVE of it but in your case it might be necessary) check out the cliff notes (or some similar site that gives summaries) on them.  If you're a fast reader, or even if you're not, you should give yourself a few hours to get familiar with the texts.  But unless your class is first thing in the morning, DON'T pull an all-nighter because you will feel the effects and will not be able to concentrate.  This may sound cliché, but you need a few hours of sleep and a good breakfast the day of the test.  And next time, don't wait until the last minute!
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Okay, Sherrah, I can tell you that it sounds like your big problem might be succinctness.  It's not how much you say but what you have to say and how you say it.  If you can replace five words with one - do it!\n\nOther than that, make sure that your grammar and spelling are perfect and that you stay on topic.  Tangents are bad.  \n\nThat is my best advice.  I also found a couple of websites that give you some great step-by-step advice. \n\nGood luck to you!
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I take spanish, but the class is really, really slow. I suggest getting tapes at a library to learn some basic things, listen to all of Shakira's spanish songs, go to spanish websites and translate them with Google Translator, etc.
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My college Public Speaking class did similar presentations. Here's a few that I remember:\n1.How to re-pot a potted plant.\n2.How to pack a bag for a trip to the beach.\n3.How to make beaded necklaces.\n4.How to make brownies.\n5.How to deal a hand of Texas Hold 'em\n6.How to get dressed in the morning. (Really...the kid came to class in a robe and his underwear and showed us step-by-step how to get dressed!)\n7.How to fold a paper airplane.\n\nThat's all I can remember right now, but there are a million things you could do! Pick something that you already know how to do and something that you are familiar and comfortable with. And something that you can have fun with!
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For any paper, here's a few good fool-proof tips. \n\nFirst of all, no whether you enjoy outlines or not, make one, and  you can't fail. Just think about what "social" or "cultural" effects your family, culture, or even home town have on you, and seperate those effects into what will later be as many body paragraphs as you want. \n\nSecond, somewhere in your introduction you need a sentence that states your number one main point in the whole paper. This should include a "what" and a "why". For example: My mother taught me to be an independent latina by raising me alone in a strange city when she moved to Chicago from Spain.\n\nNext, each paragraph has a topic sentence, which includes one of the "effects", and this topic sentence should relate to or prove the main sentence in the introduction paragraph. \n\nAdditionally, any following sentence should relate to your topic sentence, and should go in the order of fact, and then afterthought. \n\nIn the conclusion, keep it light and simple, and just quickly wrap things up. \n\nOfcourse we've all learned these things in elementary school, but when you lay it out like this in a formulaic type of way, it all just sort of seems to flow. Take it easy, and stay on topic. And more importantly, whatever class this paper is for, include as many vocab words relating to it as possible. \n\nThis formula on its own can get you a B. With a little hard work, you got your self an A. Good Luck!!
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Other than Spanish class, or maybe a supplemental to Spanish class, would be a Spanish/English dictionary. I had that and a book on conjugating verbs (I took a Spanish class in high school, but unfortuneately my Spanish still sucks).
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Here are some more thoughts ....\n\nMake sure you project your voice, and make your voice interesting and expressive. Speak clearly, and slower than you would if you were just chatting with friends. Don't move around while speaking - try to stand in one spot, which makes it easier for those listening. Don't fidget. Try to use some humor. Use an ice breaker for the beginning of your presentation. One good one is to get everyone to tell something they have done that they think no one else in the room has done. You find out lots of interesting stuff about the group. Start on time and finish on time. Get their attention - don't try to talk over a lot of noise. Find ways to involve them - try to plan some activity that will teach them something and that will fit well in your time frame. Dress in a manner that suits your topic.\n\nI hope this helps.
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Online Speech Bank\n\nIndex to and growing database of 5000+ full text, audio and video (streaming) versions of public speeches, sermons, legal proceedings, lectures, debates, interviews, other recorded media events, and a declaration or two.\n\nhttp://www.americanrhetoric.com/\n\nhttp://www.americanrhetoric.com/speechbank.htm\n\nhttp://www.speech-topics-help.com/good-persuasive-speech-topics.html\n\nhttp://www.historyplace.com/speeches/previous.htm\n\nhttp://library.albany.edu/usered/dr/speech.html\n\nhttp://www.history.com/media.do\n\nhttp://yahooligans.yahoo.com/school_bell/social_studies/history/speeches/\n\n\nSpeechTips\n\nLooking for Good Persuasive Speech Topics?\n\nhttp://www.top101persuasivespeechtopics.com/\n\nhttp://www.speech-topics-help.com/index.html\n\nhttp://www.goodpersuasivespeechtopics.com/persuasive.htm\n\nhttp://www.leeogle.org/byron/bhs/library/persuasion.htm\n\nThis is a very good site with very easy to follow step by step instructions.\n\nSpeechTips.com Your free guide to speech writing and public speaking for eulogies, graduations, best man, father of the bride and any other public speaking engagement.\n\nhttp://www.speechtips.com/index.html\n\nhttp://www.speechtips.com/preparation.html\n\nFREE Articles on Public Speaking\n\nThis site has so many tips that I was unable to pick any, you will need to see for yourself and see which, if any are useful to you.\n\nhttp://www.public-speaking.org/public-speaking-articles.htm\n\nThis site seems OK but once again see what is useful.\n\nhttp://members.shaw.ca/toasted/services.htm\n\nI liked this one.\n\nThe fear of speaking to a group of people is one of the most common forms of social phobia. Here are several suggestions for working with this fear.\n\nhttp://www.rpeurifoy.com/anxiety/pubspeak.htm\n\nPublic speaking do's and don't's\n\nhttp://www.lifehacker.com/software/feature/public-speaking-dos-and-donts-161531.php\n\nGood luck.\n\nKevin, Liverpool, UK.
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Aaaa ... ok. Now I see the fine print. I was going to suggest you tweak your quote to something like, "to be a great speaker, you really need ideas." Maybe you can rework it in a clever way to include both ideas.
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El profe de español me dio una tarea.  \n(My professor in Spanish gave me an assignment.) \n\nMe puse a estudiar los pretéritos de español para esa tarea.\n(I started studying the past tenses of Spanish for that assignment.)\n\nYo sabía nada así que vine a Yahoo Answers en busca de respuestas. \n(I didn't know a thing so I went to Yahoo Answers to look for answers).
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There are some definite changes that need to be made but you got bad advice from the other poster!  \n\nYo ME LEVANTO en la manana porque yo tengo que despertar A mi hermano para la escuela.  Mi made dice, "Haz la cama!"\n\nYo ME lavo la cara con jabon y agua antes de MAQUILLARME.  Yo ME DUCHO y uso el champu y jabon.  Yo me visto. \n\nYo pongo la mesa y como desayuno con mi hermano.  Yo debo DAR DE COMER A MI PERRO.\n\nYo ME cepillo los dientes con LA pasta de dientes.  Yo voy a la escuela rapidamente.\n\nYou need an upside down exclamation point before "haz", a tilde on the first n in manana and accents on:\nthe o of jabon\nthe u of champu\nthe a of rapidamente\n\nHope this helps!
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1. Turn your speech into an outline\n2. Make it really short and to the point\n3. Turn each outline item into one 3x5 card, where your notes should be large and highly legible.\n4. Practice, practice, practice. In fact, practice at least 3 times.\n5. Time yourself. You will make more impact if you come up to the audience and said something like, "I am going to spend less than four minutes to tell you about..."
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heres what i do, group ideas together, and if possible make a word out of it... like milc N Cookie Treats (the bones of the foot are the first 4 and the capitols) also group things together into a rememberable pattern, like find a relationship between numbers, or make a story out of it... and lastly i also will try to visualize things, and remeber it a different way from the words, like back o the previouse example, il remember what a foot looks like, then fill in hte answers from that...\n       and ive made deans list 7 out of 8 semesters, i hope this works for you, \nGL )
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like make a general guide of what your presentation with be. something like this:\n\nI. topic 1\n  A. subtopic 1\n  B. subtopic 2\n\nII. topic 2\n  A. subtopic\n\netc.\n\nhope that helps