Practice quiz: Speaking

4 questions. Pick an answer to see if it is right. You can try as many times as you like. These are for practice: the final test has different questions.

1. 1.Which is a strong opening?

   "Thank you for having me, today I'll talk about...""Last monsoon, a farmer lost half her crop before anyone identified the disease.""Sorry, I'm not good at this."Reading the title slide aloud
2. 2.What should you memorise exactly?

   The whole talkYour first few sentencesNothingAll the numbers
3. 3.A pause after a key point...

   looks unprofessionalgives the audience time to absorb itwastes timeshould be avoided
4. 4.Brooks (2014) found that before speaking, saying 'I am excited' rather than 'I am calm'...

   made no differenceimproved how persuasive and confident speakers were ratedmade people more nervousonly worked for experts