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Vocabulary to learn after watching the video :
- What is TED for those of our viewers who may have been living under a rock
- TED stands for Technology, Entertainment and Design
- In 1984 a group of professionals in those three areas got together and thought it would be a good idea to create a conference
- Ideas could be shared about these subjects
- People could become inspired
- Ideas could be spread
- That’s where TED talks were born
- The x in TEDx stands for an independently organized event
- It’s a completely different group of people, it could be a church, it could be a school, a business
- They have received a license from TED to conduct TED like events
- These events feature talks and performances
- I have three loves
- The first one is Science, I’m a conservation biologist
- The second one is public speaking, I’m a toastmaster and I compete a lot in public events
- The third one is performance, performing arts I’m a dancer and I do a lot of theatre
- I merged these three loves
- I was coaching my colleagues, my scientific peers
- They don’t have a good reputation for being able to speak well
- I was helping them to create effective messages
- This caught the attention of a few people who were organizing a TEDx event
- I happily signed on
- TEDx talks are a potent cocktail of all sorts of public speaking and rhetorical ingredients
- You’ve got a formula or a structure which starts normally with a very provocative beginning
- This catches the hook for the audience
- Story telling techniques
- Anecdotes
- Vocal variety and body language
- Telling a story something interesting something empowering or passionate
- It ends with an action, the audience can be inspired to think or do or say
- My job as a speaker coach is to bring out these elements in the speaker
- A good talk has been rehearsed about 100 times
- There’s hundreds of hours of practice
- Detailed choreography
- Talking slowly, quickly
- It is a mixture of work, an idea worth spreading
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