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require including politics, entertainment, and leadership of large businesses. But did you know
that many other jobs require public speaking as well?
If you decide to become a teacher, you will speak regularly. It may be in front of a small
class sometimes, but you will still speak. Coaches speak to teams in the training courses, clergy
speak to congregations, and salespeople speak to buyers in small or large groups. Lawyers
present arguments to juries, customer service representatives talk to individual customers, and
tour guides speak to sightseers. You may have to make a presentation about a product. Or, you
may need to teach someone how to use something you are selling. You may work with children
and teach them how to read and write. Many of you may become foremen over several people
working in manufacturing or repair, and need to speak to your employees at times. Even if you
end up sitting behind a computer and talking on the phone a lot, that is a form of public
speaking.
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1 Fill in the blank with a suitable word of jobs from the passage.
1. ........................speak to his customers
2. ........................speak to juries.
3. ........................speak to their trainees
4. ........................speak to visitors.
5. ........................speak to their staff.
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1 Decide if the statements are true (T) or false (F).
1. Public speaking means you speak to a very large group of people. .....................
2. Public speaking is only made by very important persons .....................
who have high social status.
3. Talking with your individual customers is also called public speaking .....................
4. Public speaking can even made via a telephone. .....................
X Read the passage.
Anything good about natural disasters?
Everyone agrees that a lot of bad things come (1) ……………… natural disasters. No
one can (2) ……………… that the death and destruction most disasters leave behind are
horrific. (3) ………………, there are also several good things that can come out of a
disaster. In 2008, wildfires burned nearly 5.5 million acres across the United States. Yet the
truth is that those wildfires actually (4) ……………… larger wildfires from happening.
They (5) ……………… remove layers of dead underbrush that provide the fuel for forest
fires. Wildfires also put nutrients back in the forest soil. Fire can also (6) ………………
unwanted invasive plants. Finally, animals are often attracted to the tender new growth in
fresh burnt areas. When volcanoes (7) ………………, they belch out ash, steam, and
magma. On the other hand, volcanoes created Iceland and the Hawaiian and Galapagos
Islands. Volcanic ash also creates fertile soil for crops. Volcanoes can also (8)
……………… geothermal power. Power (9) ……………… are built to capture volcanic
steam. The steam is used to (10) ……………… energy. Then it provides another solution
to our country‟s energy problems.
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1 Choose the best answer.
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