<p>Yeah so I have a big presentation ( a test grade) on friday. everyone had to read a book and do a presentation that is at least 20 minutes. i just did the presentation for my parents. it was 24 minutes. They said though that I say “umm” too much and I talk too fast. I’m really worried because these are things that I cannot really control . I dunno i guess just wondering if anyone has any advice for this…a cure anyone??? haha.</p>
<p>basically if your teacher is anything like mine, the presentations are just watched with a smile and they aren’t graded seriously…just a random 90-100 depending on if the teacher likes you…honestly. just pretend you’re talking to friends, but a teacher wouldn’t really care about the oral presentation that much.</p>
<p>My teachers really care! I had to do a 15 minute presentation last year and each time you said like/um/uh he took off a point. Luckily, I don’t say these things naturally… but other people got 60s and 50s!</p>
<p>Good luck, btw!</p>
<p>if you can avoid it, don’t go first. or last. go seventh.</p>
<p>Wow…that’d take like…weeks for everyone to present that long of a presentation. What’s your’s about?</p>
<p>actually, first usually gets extra credit or at least graded easier</p>
<p>i had an 80 minute health presentation in which my oral presentation isnt great but the content was awesome so i got a 110</p>
<p>Martha and Jon K. At the beginnning of the year we each got a date for a presentation. Mine is May 5th. We do a presentation every friday. Its spread out all year so its not like we all do it at the same time
Mine is about Walter Cronkite and his autobiography A Reporters Life.</p>
<p>i find it funny…you actually practiced in front of your parents? i think of what I will say while others are presenting actually…except that health one…i would never practice though especially in front of my parents</p>
<p>I practice in front of my parents for a presentation. Those are the only people around me who can give me some feedback.</p>
<p>logistics someone told me it would be a good idea. and im glad i did im a lot less nervous now.</p>
<p>i think you should bs it. maybe have a note card and leave the rest up to the old bser…the only teacher i had that actually noted oral presentation was spanish…with reason of course for that course</p>
<p>Go first, then they have no one to judge it against, or go last when the period is going to end as no one is paying attention :)</p>
<p>Speech and Debate is a god sent for presentations, especially policy.
Teaches you to ******** and sound good without any preparation.</p>
<p>I did an oral presentation and examination on the transition from paganism(Norse mythology) to Christianity in Skandinavia at the end of my freshman year. With almost a year of policy debate under my belt, I was able to make the presentation the night before and make up crazy stories.</p>
<p>Did you know that viking chief’s/slan leaders, at their deaths, would be placed upon a boat soaked in oil? His advisors and closest friends would take a virgin on the boat, and all would proceed to rape her after getting wasted. The deceased’s wife would then stab herself as the advisors/friends lit the boat on fire, there by incinerating the bodies of the chief and wife while the former virgin was burned alive?</p>
<p>That one is actually true and not a crazy story, but you get the idea.</p>
<p>Edit- forgot to say that I was the only person to get an A (98) on the presentation in the class. Minus two for losing eye contact.</p>
<p>oh man i hate presentations. i think teachers make us do presentations just to make us look bad.</p>
<p>A few quick suggestions …
- I also recommend going 2nd or 3rd and gettting it over with; if you tend to get nervous the longer you wait to go the more time you have to get nervous.
- Lots of people say um or like or other filler words without even knowing it … in my experience the best way to break the habit is to video tape yourself while you practice your presentation … this will show you if you say um/like/etc … it will also show you if you look ahead while talking … if you keep your hands in your pockets … if you talk too fast or too soft … etc</p>
<p>FYI - a lot of people rate giving presentations as one of the worst things they need to do at their jobs … very few people enjoy doing it … although lots of people are actually pretty good at it!</p>
<p>willmingtonwave and 3togo…there is no first or second or third we each have our own day. but thanks everyone for the suggestion ill try to use them.</p>
<p>de de de…you could go the second or third day, wow are you blonde greenday?</p>
<p>noo they said like…go second or third. and we are each assigned a specific say at the beginning of the year so yeah what i said made sense sorry im not blonde. and ur not funny.</p>
<p>i beg to differ</p>
<p>no i plead</p>
<p>denied…</p>