Open F2F Class Notes _ 31st Mar (Harmony)

There’re 3 types, first, sounds like ‘er, ah, um/uh’ and so on; For example, “Er, Mom always er said ah life is just like er a box of chocolates…. ” what are you feeling now? Come on, you’re not Forrest Gum, but you’re really smart people, that’s why you come to E//?

Second, repeat words excessively. For example, “You know, I finally got my hair cut, you know, it really hard to find a nice barbershop, you know. It’s even harder to find a nice barber in a nice barbershop, you know?” I know you want to throw rotten eggs to me now.

At last, use inappropriately long silence; For example,(wait for several seconds) do you want to ask: hey! What are you waiting for? Come on, just speak out. Therefore avoid it, don’t let your audience wait so long, otherwise they’ll be annoyed.

There are 3 types of verbal crutches, first, sounds like ‘er, ah, um/uh’ and so on.  For example, “Er, Mom always er said ah life is just like er a box of chocolates…. ” what are you feeling now? Come on, you’re not Forrest Gump, but you’re really smart people, that’s why you come to E//?

Second, repeat words excessively. For example, “You know, I finally got my hair cut, you know, it’s really hard to find a nice barbershop, you know. It’s even harder to find a nice barber in a nice barbershop, you know?” I know you want to throw rotten eggs at me now.

At last, use inappropriately long silence; For example, (wait for several seconds) do you want to ask: hey! What are you waiting for? Come on, just speak out. Therefore, avoid it.  Don’t let your audience wait so long, otherwise they’ll be annoyed.

Verbal Crutches:  things to lean on while speaking.

Magnify:

Attract them attention to these sounds – attract the audience attention to these sounds

Ummm (mmmm)

UH (ahhhh)

To me:  catch, pass back and forth

At me:  you’re not catching it.  You’re not prepared, it might hit your face.

Punctuate: (punk – tuate)  to add punctuation, to add importance or show how to read something.  (. , ; 🙂

to give emphasis or force to; emphasize; underline.

Ex:  Sometimes you have to punctuate your speech to emphasis something or give some space for your audience to think about it.

The guideline will told you that – the guideline will tell you that

Brain fart:  your brain isn’t working well, or is only releasing stupid stuff.  (drawing a blank)

Fart:  slang word for when you need to release gas from your butt. 

Verbal diarrhea:  when someone won’t stop talking, and the words aren’t very good or useful. 

“think on your feet”:  to be able to think quickly, and respond to things quickly while speaking.