Read/analyze and adapt to your audience.

Some public speakers have a natural ability to connect with the audienceand need never concern themselves with how to engage onlookers. But themajority of speech makers start out less confident of how they can and willcreate a rapport.

Whether your speech is five minutes or five hours, check out thesetechniques for keeping your audience rapt from start to finish.

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1.       adapt to your audience适应你的听众

2.       connectwith your audience与观众进行沟通

3.       engageyour audience吸引听众注意

4.       create arapport with the audience与观众建立融洽的关系

5.       create abond with the audience与观众建立联系

6.       pull off努力实现

7.       segue ['segweɪ] n.: to move smoothly from one song, idea, activity, condition etc toanother〔顺畅地〕转到，接入〔另一首歌、另一个主意、另一种情形等〕

8.       exude [ɪg'zjuːd;eg-] vt. 散发；流出；使渗出

9.       modulate ['mɒdjʊleɪt] vi. 调制；转调

10.   pitch [pɪtʃ] n.音高；

11.   sustain [sə'steɪn] vt. 维持；

12.   attention span [心理] 注意广度；注意力的持续时间

13.   boredom ['bɔːdəm] n. 厌倦；令人厌烦的事物

14.   rushe through快速通过；仓促完成

15.   embarrassingly adv. 使人尴尬地；令人难堪地

16.   podium ['pəʊdɪəm] n. 表演台；讲台；乐队指挥台

17.   monotony [mə'nɒt(ə)nɪ] n. 单调；千篇一律

18.    crutch [krʌtʃ] n. 拐杖；支柱；

19.   heartier亲切的（hearty的比较级）

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Questions to be discussed in class: 

How to adapt to your audience?

 Study the speech and immitate the speaker. 

Questions to be discussed in class: 

What’s the effect of the sentence “Now when somebody asks me how the remarks at Cardigan went, I will be able to say they were interrupted by applause.”?

Why did the speaker talk about what “other commencement speakers will typically say” before getting to his point?

What does it mean by “In a certain sense, you should not be yourself.”? How can a person be oneself according to the speaker?