Saturday, February 20, 2021

 

Evaluations - should you say you, or the speaker's name and then he/she?

 I have seen evaluators literally look at the speaker in an in person meeting and lean towards them or walk towards them. If the evaluator uses 'you' it sounds as if everybody else is eavesdropping on a private conversation. As an audience member I would go off and make a cup of tea. 

Include the rest of the room. Furthermore, another bonus to using third person: if you tell the speaker that he or she did well, that's just flattery from a friend. If you tell the entire room the speaker did well, the speaker will feel much prouder at being praised in front of everybody.

If you need to remember the name or pronunciation of somebody you are interviewing, write it on the back of a fan.

Author

About the Author

Angela Lansbury teacher of English (advanced and English as a Second Language or English as a Foreign Language, French and other languages, aspiring polyglot.

Angela Lansbury, travel writer and photographer, author and speaker. Member of many toastmasters  speaker training clubs and speaking contest judge.

Angela Lansbury, the author of 20 books including Wedding Speeches & Toasts, and Quick Quotations, has lived in the USA, Spain and Singapore. 
She  has several blogs and writes daily on at least two of the following:

travelwithangelalansbury.blogspot.com

dressofthedayangela.blogspot.com

translateforfun.blogspot.com

To buy silk fans

http://silkfans.com/

 Please share links to your favourite posts.



Labels: , , , , , , , , ,


Comments: Post a Comment



<< Home

This page is powered by Blogger. Isn't yours?