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Week 1.
Developing Self-Confidence


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Stage Fright / Presentation Anxiety
• Talk yourself out of
negative thoughts!
• Face it, accept it, deal
with it, and then let it go.
• Identify your fear,
replace it with positive
thoughts, plan and
prepare, and then
breathe deeply and
slowly.


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Speaking to Develop Self-confidence
• To overcome speech fear.
• To express opinions or personal experiences.
• To share feelings in public.
To speak about a very familiar topic.
YOURSELF!!


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Introducing Yourself
• Introduce yourself to others, i.e. classmates.
• Your goal is to impress your audience, so
that he/she would remember you and your
special traits easily.
• Not only to introduce your personal info
• But also to add sth personal to bring the
audience closer.
 A personal experience
 A strong emotional reaction


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Personal Experience
• Everybody has had experiences that are
unforgettable in some way.
• Your challenge is to make the audience
relive the experience with you.
Embarrassing

Frightening

Funny

Interesting

Happy

Unique

Uncomfortable

Sad

Educational

Exciting

Dangerous

Surprising


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Strong Emotional Reactions
• Strong emotional reactions are easy to
arouse echoes among the audience.
• Feeling thrilled > happy
• Feeling furious > angry
• Feeling heartbroken> sad
• Feeling panicky > scared


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A Specific Fear
• Being able to talk about sth you are afraid of
and to share your feelings with the class is a
good way to gain confidence when speaking
before an audience.
Flying in planes

Being in the dark

Public speaking

Going to a new country

Meeting new people

Interviewing for a job

Snake / Cockroach

Large dogs

Taking tests

Going to the hospital


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Creating Social Network
• 2 minutes for you to think about how to
introduce yourself impressively.
• Introduce yourself to one of your classmate.
• Then go around the room and introduce yourself
to another classmate.
• Bring your new partner back
to the original partner, and
introduce each other.
(Take turns)


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Social Language
• Greeting: “How do you do?”
– “How do you do” “Pleasure to meet you”
• Shake hands when you first meet someone.
– In some cultures people shake both hands, but
in most cultures people shake the right hand.
– Male handshake should be firm. Weak
handshakes are sometimes referred to as 'limp'
or 'cold'. More about handshaking or gestures: Week 3
• Ask a few personal questions as “icebreakers”, and
then move into professional mode.


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Introducing Yourself &
Creating Social Network
• Introduce yourself to one of your classmate
during a 1-minute conversation.
• Go around the room and introduce yourself to
another classmate.
• Create your social network & Impress other
people!
• Create your social spot!


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Introducing Yourself
• The conversation will carry on for 10 minutes.
Meet as many friends as you can.
• Come to the stage and introduce one person
that impress you the most and why. Impress us
too!!
• Remember: No repetition!!
So you better know MORE friends, or you
volunteer to be the first in every circle!
• A introduce B  B introduce C  C introduce A
 (new start)…  Left: introduce yourself (&
punishment?!)


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Now, Go!!
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