And Zeena, actually, the plant as well, if we could.

Lighting looks good and I'm just organizing my environment.

Let's do a sound check as well.

Good to go.

[Tips for public speaking]

Today, I want to talk a little bit about public speaking.

I have a lot of students who have to speak in public in English, whether it's at a conference, giving a presentation at work or just general day to day business meetings.

Public speaking can be nerve wracking in your first language.

When you start doing it in your second or third, I can't even begin to imagine how nervous you're going to be.

I have been practicing this skill, so would love to share my tips with you.

And I've organized them into the 3Ps: preparation, practice and performance.

The saying preparation is key.

I know can be a little bit cliche, but it's the truth.

Prepare your materials.

What you want to talk about.

What is the key information that you want to share with your audience?

Make sure that you have all of your data, all of your information.

Prepare them and look over them.

Next, prepare your environment.

If you are at home on a Zoom meeting, make sure that your office is quiet.

You're in a nice chair.

If you're in a meeting at work, prepare your meeting room.

Make sure all of your tech works.

There's nothing worse than going to do a presentation, realizing the projector doesn't work or there's no speaker or there's no HDMI cable.

Finally, and I know it sounds weird that I'm giving you hygiene advice, but prepare yourself.

Take a shower.

It sounds really silly, but being clean, being fresh gives you confidence.

Make sure that you're wearing something that's comfortable, but also makes you feel confident.

Our next P is practice.

So as the saying goes, practice makes perfect.

I would also suggest practicing out loud.

We are all perfectly capable of speaking to an incredibly high standard in our heads.

I'm fluent in many languages in my head.

Practice out loud.

Take the time to do this.

It gets your mouth used to moving around, saying all these words.

And if you can, I would even suggest using the voice recorder on your phone so that you can then listen back to the recording.

It's not only about what you say, but how you say it.

On that note, what you say is also important.

So make sure that you're feeling confident with any vocabulary, common collocations that you might need, as well as linking and signposting phrases.

You might have noticed that I've been trying to use them today to give you a little bit of an idea of what they are and how they can be used.

Our third and final P is performance.

Public speaking is like acting.

You're giving a performance.

Even if you're not feeling confident, fake it till you make it.

So stand up straight, smile, look at your audience.

And I also like to scan the room in threes.

In case you haven't noticed, I like doing things in threes.

So pick a center point in your room.

Talk to your audience.

Turn to your right.

Talk to an audience member over here.

You can go back to the center and then finally to your left.

That way, you're making sure that all of your audience feels included.

So to sum up, we have 3Ps: practice, preparation and performance.

Every time.

Not in that order.

They are preparation, practice and performance.

Do let me know if you started using those and how you get on.

I'd love to hear in the comments below.

Or if you have anything that you do before giving a public speech or presentation, myself and I'm sure the rest of our viewers would love to hear about it.

Bye, everyone.