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Rehearsing … speech

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Rehearsing his speech for three days before the conference had greatly boosted his self-confidence.

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a keynote speaker

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The task of a keynote speaker is often to introduce the theme of a conference and give the main talk.

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a hostile audience

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Just because people did not clap frantically does not mean that you had a hostile audience.

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a pep talk

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The aim of a pep talk is to encourage and energize the audience.

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to fire questions

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The audience had been rather quiet so I did not expect them to fire questions at me at the end of my talk.

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hold conference

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We are pleased to announce that our next conference will be held in May.

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to do a speech

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to do a speech

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a publicity speaker

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a publicity speaker

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an accurate audience

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an accurate audience

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a session talk

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a session talk

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to arise questions

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to arise questions

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to delegate a conference

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to delegate a conference

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