I like the word "Yikes." As you get ready to make your informative speeches, remember--they should be 5-7 minutes, include 2 full citations, 2 bibliographic sources--listed in a mini-"works cited" or "reference section" at the bottom of your outline, one visual aid, a complete outline with all the details, including written-out transitions. Try to memorize your introduction. That is usually the part that makes people the most nervous...so for this blog, use the word "yikes" and tell us about what you do when you get nervous and how you plan to avoid doing this "nervous (yikes) behavior" when you make your fabulous, provocative, compelling informative speech and change the face of the world as we know it with all of your fancy "information!!!!!"
Now--Go git em', Tigers and Tigresses!!!!--S
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YIKES!
yikes...welll when i get nervous i take deep breaths and think of elvis...i know thats dumb but my speech teacher said to think of somethin to take the nervousness from your mind...also another think that i learned from drama class was just get in character become the character...be the character..lol..so yeah thats what i do...
marissa soto
Someone once told me that if you ever get nervous in front of an audiance, just image everyone you are speaking to is naked. YIKES!!! I really don't know if that will help or hurt, but thats the advice I was given.
M. Gandara
T/Th
When I have a "yikes" moment I think I tend to roll my eyes and/or wave my hands around too much, like I'm trying to signal in a plane for landing. At home, a simple lemon drop martini will take care of the "yikes" - - but I doubt I can hold onto one of those while giving my speech! I think it would help me if there were a podium up there like many speakers have - - you know, something to hold onto for dear life!
Mary King, Saturday class
Whenever I feel nervous I tend to focus on a single object that is front of me when I'm speaking. This is usually good to get yourself out of the "Yikes" moment.
George Furuhashi
well for me i think just being prepared helps me get rid of the yikes factor...but i still get nervous so maybe i'll read some of the posts and try out some of there ways
nick barker
Yikes, i get nervous just thinking about speaking in public...But i have developed a technique that keeps me confident when i speak in public. The secret is...i imagine there is no one in the room...But this requires imagination. If that doesn't work I try to keep eye contact with someone i feel comfortable look at ( some one hot...Lol :o)...using arm movement relaxes we...So that about it
Keeping these tricks in mind, i usually do fine. ;O)
Svetlana R. :o)
yikes...when i get nervous I have a problem making eye contact. Then I try to do funny stuff in my speech so that is probably why I tend to be funny it all nerves believe me. So there it is. Porsh aYancey
I never really get nervous during a speech because I try to familiar myself with my surroundings. I get to know the people I’m presenting for and I get comfortable. If I ever do get nervous speaking in front of my audience YIKES!!!! Because I have the tendency to throw up when I was younger before almost half my gymnastics performances I would throw up nervous that I would fall flat on my face.
Ms. Precious Wright
When I get nervous, I turn the color of a tomato....YIKES...to avoid this i am going to relax, and try not to get nervous and uncomfortable.
Victoria davis
Yikes, When I am nervous I talk a bit fast. But as I get further into the speech, I start to relax. I don't have too much of a yikes factor when I know a lot about the topic.
Carla Quintella
When I get nervous turn really red and try to speak the fastest i can yikes maybe next time i will try to consentrate on doing really good hopefully that r
eally helps me out.
Aida Lopez
I start to stutter, I start talking to fast, and I forget words, !!!!!!!!!!!YIKES!!!!!!!!!!Then I realize what I am doing and I say to myself Deanna shut up, slow down and get this stupid speech over with. That usually works knowing that it will be done very soon.
Deanna
Saturday
When I get nervous, my stomach usually feels like it's in knots. Perhaps some deep breathing or relaxation techniques might help. But honestly, they haven't helped my whole life, so I doubt they will now! YIKES!!!!! Sometimes I tend to talk fast, so I should pay special attention to pausing.
Kelli Rodriguez
Yikes! When I get nervous my heart starts pounding, I start to blush, and sometimes i forget what I'm saying. I plan to avoid this while giving my speech by imagining that the audience is a 6th grade class. Then I am less self conscious because I know that I am smarter and more knowledgeable than my imagined audience.
Sal Lopez
Dear Class,
Yikes! When I get nervous I tend to drive around illegally with my two love children or drive to the beach (also illegally) and then jump in the cold ocean clad in nothing but skimpy underpants. YIKES!
--Brittany Speers
I usualy get nervous when I am uupreparred for the subject I am talking about. I tend to look around and blush. If I have a pencil I will start playing with it. Or if I have a paper I will just start pointlessly folding it but I usually no longer get any nervous because I usually just think to my self F**K it and just do it without any worrys
Anthony Guzman
well, i really don't get that nervous anymore. i used to, of course. but since i started performing in front of others when i was 12, i just don't get the stage fright that i used to. so what's my nervousness cure? i just do it, whether it be singing or giving a speech. why let nervousness get in the way?
-----Colleen
when i get nervous all the information in my head suddenly diappears...YIKES! so then i just have to say something relating to my topic until i find my place again.
alicia m
t/th
When I get nervous, I tend to say like alot and I forgot alot of the things that I'm about to say. I think to myself, YIKES...
Marian Capulong
Well when I get nervous about speaking in front of people, I usually feel the "yikes!!!" right before its my turn, but once I get up there I tell myself I have already done the hard part, (wrote the speech and actually got up here) now all I have to do is finish it, and I can worry about it later.
Jessica Blocker
Yikes! Well when I'm nervous or unprepared I tend to say um, a lot. But I always try to really focus and concentrate on what I am talking about, and that always helps.
Bill Mattos
yikes...and ummm...ummm. this is so ummm... hard to do. When I get nervous I end up doing the Ummm... uhhh thing. Public speaking makes me nervous to the point that I forget where I was going, and what I was going to say. It is that being in front of everyone, and feeling like I am being judged by them for everything about me. I HATE IT!!!!! But put me in the back of the room and I become witty, funny, and confident (at least in my own world... you all should visit there some time. It is wonderful.) I don't think that this is something that I will ever completely get over, but I do keep trying.
Leah
Well this is an easy one. When I get anxious, particularly if I'm giving a speach, I often find myself taking on some sort of a character. Acting is easier than public speaking, although it is still a form of public speaking. If you're another character and you screw up, it's usually easy enough to turn the screw up into part of the character's personality.
Chris Z
My yikes moment usually is covered by humor, even when it's not intended by staring off far into the distance with glazed over eyes and smiling dumbfounded by how much time has been wasted... and then i say... 'crap.'
jeremiah
saturday
crap is alot like saying yikes!
By the time I get to the speech tomorrow, I hope to have all the "yikes" out of me. They've been coming all week, sometimes in the middle of the night when I wake up and remember that I didn't finish that darn speech yet! So my strategy is to have all the "yikes" out of me by being very prepared and practiced- then I won't talk too fast or forget something.
Mary Boardman
Saturday
I like Jessica Blocker's take, "...I tell myself I've already done the hard part (written the speech...)" That's actually calming the giant YIKES i'm feeling right now. Jeremiah is right on with his use of crap as a substitute for yikes. So here's me from now until 11:50am Saturday... "YIKES crap, YIKES crap, YIKES. crap crap crap.
-james-
Yikes!!!!!! I freak out when I have to make a speech. I dislike going in front of an audiences it just make me nervous, tense, and most of all talk really fast. For that I just think tht I am not the only who is nervous because everyone is nervous to give his/her speech too. I always try my best because it is beter to make a speech than get a zero.
-Maiker Yang
Well I'd have to say that I've had to give a lot of talks and different addresses throughout my life, but it still easy to become nervous no matter how many times you've had to speak to an audience. I guess what helps me the most is the thought that for the most part there will be two possible outcomes to your speech. One you do a great/good job and everyone enjoys it, or two its horrible. If it the first then great you don't have to worry about anything, and if its the second, well you're still in the same boat. Should you freeze, remember that life goes on and most likely you'll not see these people again, or if you do they'll most likely not remember the speech you gave unless it really moved them. So in the end I just try to keep this in mind that not matter how good/bad you might be, everything will still work out in the end. This helps me relax and face all of my YIKES.
Bryce Hayden
Just thinking about the fact that I have to stand up in front of the class and tell them about something they probably don't want to know about makes me wonder why I even picked the topic I picked and the fact that I have to smile when I am doing it YIKES! that makes it even worse, but apparently that is something I have to work on. Too bad I don't really feel like smiling unless I am making some snide comment. I tend to forget everything I am trying to say and start stumbling over my words and get really hot, or maybe its just the classroom. It gets really stuffy in there. So in light of all that I am going to try to be extremely prepared by tattooing the speech all over my arms and I am going to wear something really skimpy so I don't get hot. Or maybe not. I guess I am just going to go in there and get it over with and just pretend I am sitting down instead of standing up in front.
Kate Hall
t/th
I always get nervous when I will have a speech due to the reason that Sandra mentioned. I cann't memorize my speech. I have tried to breath deeply, but it doesn't help. So, I'm thinking about to use notes while speaking in front of the public.
Fortunately, I am not the only one who needs notes, even Steve Job ueses notes while giving his speech.
Peiyi Li
when i go up to give a speech I get really nervous set my hair on fire and I yell YIKES! then run around in circles screaming I'm a pretty little pony.........not really. most of the time i just relax and center myself before a speech. to clear my head of everything other than my speech. i don't get nervous a whole lot because i don't care if i make myself look like an idiot. which for me is not thst hard.
- Raveen
Andrew says,
When i was in 8th grade I gave a speech. I was so nervous that i couldn't stop shaking. When I got to the podium I opened my folder and YIKES!! my speech outline was upside down and flipped over. The perfect start to my first speech.
P.S. I did finish strong and everyone said they enjoyed it.
YIKES.... When i get nervous, my heart shake so fask and sometime my face get red, or my hands shake. However, I don't usually get nervouse while I am doing a speech. Proporly because I don't realize how bad I was doing. I don't know it is good or not, but at lease I feel comfortable while I am talking in front of people.
Chere
Sat. Class
When I get nervous I often say inappropriate things. This will not be an asset when performing a speech. I try to combat this by remembering that if I say something to rude, to an audience member. I will most likely be beaten to a pulp. That is my methodology.
XOXO
Kelly Bolderson
Yikes! Public speaking is one of my biggest fears! When I get nervous I stutter and it's really embarassing to me. I know it's not that big of a deal, but it's really frustrating to know what you're trying to say but not be able to get it out because of nervse. I also talk really fast when I get nervous so a combimation of the two things is sometimes overwhelming. I plan to practice my speech a lot to avoid these nervous habbits
Traci Brooks
"Yikes" it is every time I am asked to speak in public and for this reason alone I chose this class. What I have found in order to help alleviate my fear of public speaking is to always try to discuss a topic that I have a strong personal interest in. By choosing topics I have an interest in it makes it least likely for me to forget or get stuck in what I am presenting. The whole idea of picturing everyone naked has never worked for me because that is more of a distraction and a "yikes" in itself alone. Karyn Qualls tues/thurs
When Im doing a speech and I get that Yikes! moment because I forgot something I usually try to breath and stay calmed and add info to make it sound right.
Lizzeth Lopez
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