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Read or Recite
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To provide you with an opportunity to exercise vocal variety and body language in the delivery of a piece written by someone else. Children's stories and excerpts from famous speeches are examples of such material. |
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Choose a piece of poetry or prose and decide whether your objective will be to read or recite. |
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If you are going to read from a book, make a photocopy with enlarged print. This will help you follow the text more easily and enable you to look up and maintain some level of eye contact. | |
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As with all assignments, prepare and rehearse to ensure correct timing. Readings seem to be particularly prone to going over time. | |
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Inform Chairman 1 of your title, and how you would like him/her to introduce you. |
| What to do during your assignment |
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Keep any introduction short, maximum of 15-20 seconds. |
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Allow yourself to concentrate on your delivery: voice, pace, pausing, gestures.... The whole idea is to relieve you of the burden of worrying about what to say. | |
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When you are finished, hand back to Chairman 1. | |
| That is the end of your assignment. You will be evaluated by the General Evaluator |
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