Fri, 17 July 2009
This ESL podcast is about giving a presentation and how to relax while giving one. Dialog: A: You look like you saw a ghost. What’s up with that? B: I’ve got to give a huge presentation for work today in front of 20 top execs from the company. A: What’s the big deal? You know your stuff. B: Ya but I have bigtime stagefright. At the end of my presentation the execs will asking me all kinds of questions. I freeze up when I have to think on my feet. A: Don’t psych yourself out. You’ll be fine. B: That’s easy for you to say. You’re not the one who has to give the speech. A: If you get nervous just picture the audience in their underwear. Aparantly that helps. B: I’ll do that only as a last resort. A: Why? B: The execs are mostly men in their 50′s.. |