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I'm nervous about presentations
I am a thirteen year old girl and whenever it comes to presentations...i start getting nevous. Not only presentations...reading out loud. My voice gets stuck and i cant read properly. Even if its in front of 16 students including my teacher. Im really scared. We have a presentation to do alone which is 7 minutes long. Practicing in front of the mirror does not help me. what else?? please i need advice so i wont be scared for the presentation
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I'm a lot older than you are and I get nervous doing presentations, too. Everyone does.
There is NO substitute for practice, practice, practice. Don't worry about the mirror. Look out into a big room and speak out loud into the big room. Practice your 7 minute presentation 50 times out loud in a room by yourself - go where you can practice out loud.
If you are allowed note cards - only put little reminder words - not full sentences. Glance at the reminder words and make your point.
Practicing 50 times does several things.
1. It makes the presentation better and better each time you do it. After the 50th time, it is awesome!
2. It makes you less nervous when you speak because you know you are totally prepared and much more confident in what you are saying.
3. You will remember everything to say very easily and it will come out your mouth out of habit no matter how nervous you are.
When it's time to give your presentation, look just over everyone's heads at the back of the room. This will help you concentrate and not be distracted by their faces. And, smile.
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You have to remind yourself that YOU and you alone are the authority on what you are presenting. You MUST tell yourself this over and over as well as that your classmates and teacher MUST hear what you have to say about it. They're craving the info you have to deliver.
Most actors in theater use this next trick. Find a spot on the ground and plant your feet there and don't move. Pretend there's a spotlight shining down on that spot and don't move. Look dead ahead at something on the wall, focus, breathe and keep speaking until your speech is done.
Block the teacher out, block the classmates out and focus on that spot. You'll have a better delivery, less nervousness and higher mark if you do this. Forget practicing in the mirror and just go into it this way.
I Know your voice will be fine if you do this. Even if it does crack just breathe and start again. Nobody is going to shoot you for being a tad nervous or uncomfortable as 90% of them probably are. Shit, if you want to be realistic they're worried about their presentation and marks and not anything else including you.
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I used to be like this at school and college too, i used to find myself going bright red, getting panicky, stammering over my words, i found that explaining to the teacher really helped, they were more than happy to just let me do a presentation with them in the room and no one else.
Try explaining it and see if that is an option x
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