1. Learn public speaking in 3 days

Hardly any activity unnerves people as much as public speaking. This recipe by Roland Forster at the Preparatory College from Saarbrücken University in Germany helps alleviate such fears.

Ingredients:

* Students beginning their course of study who must learn public speaking without notes in a short space of time
* Intensive training atmosphere with
* total concentration on the goal (thus, public speaking training alone and no language training)

Preparation:

Providing effective guidelines at the start for putting together seminar papers, presentations etc is of vital importance.

Participants give speeches without notes and present seminar papers on predetermined topics.

This is done as group work (speaker, presenter, peer-groups). Videotaping makes the task easier. All speeches are discussed and analysed at a group meeting.

The special flavour:

On this programme, students are required to perform their first speech within six weeks of starting the course. Since it was first offered, this training course appears to have significantly eased the difficulties of beginning studies.

Would you like to know more?

Click here for a more detailed description of the project!
You can contact the project manager at roland.forster@t-online.de.