Well i got a speaking test nex week and i need advise on speaking right in front of the class without any stuttering or without any of umm, err ( that kinda stuff), also i need some advice on what techniques should be used in an argument and how to use em.
the argument is about ‘why the government should put more money in education’ any additional ideas or points will be highly appreciated.

JacobWilliam - 11 November 2009 08:44 AM

First of all, you need to conduct a discovery session and find out exactly what kind of filler (um, er, ah, you know, I mean) problem you have. That way you can get to a solution much faster. My suggestion is that you ask a colleague to videotape you the next time you have to present, or just record your own voice. I like to divide the um, er, ah, ok filler words into three main categories, and it is important to know in which context you use fillers.

Intra-sentence fillers. This is interjecting filler words as a form of punctuation within a sentence or a thought. For example; if you, um, look at the screen you’ll see this, um, pull-down menu, which has, er, all the file formats we can, er, export to.

Hi Jacob, Thanks for your great answer!!!