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What are the first words you should say in a speech?

And what are the last words you should say in a speech?

Now tomorrow, I don't know how many of you are speaking, but I guarantee if you go to conferences,

19 out of 20 speakers will start in one of these ways.

Number one, my name is Connor Neal, I'm from Tango, Tango and this talk is about the latest trend in monitoring strategies

Now all of you are sitting with a piece of paper in front of you

that says I'm Connor Neal I've come from Ireland, and I'm going to talk about tango 04 on this

So by repeating what you already know I'm giving a signal that it's a time to get your Blackberry out

I've just signaled that this talk is Opportunity to reconnect with Blackberry make sure the office is okay

maybe get some plans together for the weekend.

Another way to start.

The lights, the mic's working.

How much time have I got?

Okay, right.

Okay, is it plugged in?

And you laugh, but I guarantee tomorrow there's going to be some moments They get a little bit of that And why

because this is for some of you the first time you

see this individual they're here as a leader in their industry and

Your kid at school presenting on giraffes does a better job That's sad

So I think there's only three ways of starting a speech.

And it's the same if you went into a bar and there's a group of people, it's a networking event, much like you were at before you walked into this room.

And maybe I came up to a group, there's a group of three people who are having a little conversation.

I walk in and I say, Hi, I'm Connor.

I'm Irish, 38 years old.

I have an interest in sailing.

I like running. And they've walked away.

How do you get people to engage with you when you're networking?

I say, in networking, the best thing you can do is walk up.

I think we know someone in common.

Try and walk away when someone comes up and says that to you.

Hopefully you've done your research so you do know that you know someone in common.

But with LinkedIn, you can find out who knows who on anyone you want.

How to start a speech?

First way, with a question that matters to the audience.

how do you phrase a problem that the audience faces in a question

so that'd be the third best way of starting a speech

the second best way of starting a speech with a factoid that shocks there's more people alive today than have ever died.

There's more people alive today than have ever died.

There's a lot of speeches that can follow on from there.

Every two minutes, the energy reaching the Earth from the Sun is equivalent to the whole annual usage of humanity.

All the energy, all the cars, everything moving, all the lighting, all the air conditioning of the world,

in one year is equivalent to two minutes of sun.

Does that change how you think about energy?

So, what's a fact that shocks the audience into rethinking?

And Google has transformed your ability to get at these facts

given two or three minutes you can find out one whether anything I said is true

but you trust me because I looked the part and I'm from ESing those are in fact two true facts

I usually get someone come up to me and, are you sure?

How do they measure dead and alive? But it's true.

And it's not even close.

But the best way to start a speech, and the way that I hope all of you use from now forward,

is the same way we start a story to a child.

Now, how do we start a story to a child?

Erase una vez.

Once upon a time.

And what happens when you say once upon a time?

I can tell you what happens when I say once upon a time,

my daughter leans forward, gets ready to hear, engages.

And we were all trained as kids to know when a story is coming.

We also know when a teacher is about to deliver a 40-minute boring lecture that has no impact on our lives.

But in business, you don't hear Jack Welsh saying, once upon a time.

Steve Jobs doesn't start his speeches, once upon a time.

So there's a grown-up way of saying once upon a time.

If you listen to the conversations that are interesting around you, at a dinner table, in a networking event, if you listen to the people that are gathering the group of eight that are listening to them,

the way they're talking is different.

The way they start is different.

The way you tell stories as an adult is, in October, was the last time I was in this room, there were 120 people in the room,

and I was having a little conversation with one of the world experts on public speaking And he said something to me.

He said something to me That's had me thinking ever since

He said something to me that changed What I think about what's important in speaking

Now I can pause for about 30 seconds two or three minutes and you want to know what he said

so in speaking in sales we assume self-interest

so if you can tell a story from your own life

that connects you to why this topic is important to you why you first joined the company

when you first saw someone benefit and you saw how their life was changed

And I think here exploring what quality of life means for you In your business,

how do you affect quality of life for a customer?

Because that's where the stories that will start to connect you to the audience will come from

Because stories are about people They are not about objects, they are not about things.

It's about the people behind the things.

If you want to tell a good story about Tango, don't talk about the software.

Talk about the people who built the software.

What they do, how they are, what's important to them, what they sacrifice.

And in your own life, what does quality of life mean?

What sacrifices have you made to achieve something that was more important?

And if you can tell stories and the audience connect with those stories, then they want to hear what you have to say.

And all the reasons and all the benefits, they're all written in the document and in the PowerPoint.

But they need to trust you.

And they need to care about you as a person to engage with you and then decide that they will act.

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本節課學習內容

本節課將圍繞“如何開啟一場演講”展開，學習者可通過影片內容掌握實用的演講開頭技巧，同時結合影子跟讀練習提升口語表達的流暢度與感染力。課程不僅適用於日常演講準備，也對雅思口語練習等場景有直接幫助，幫助學習者在不同場合下自信開口。

核心詞彙與短語

factoid：有趣的小事實（用於引起聽眾注意）
engage with：與……互動（建立聽眾連線的關鍵）
self-interest：自身利益（演講中需關注聽眾需求）
quality of life：生活質量（故事敘述的情感切入點）
networking event：社交活動（演講與日常溝通的共通場景）

練習技巧

影子跟讀是提升口語的高效方法，針對本影片的語速和語調，可採用以下策略：首先，選擇影片中演講開頭的示例片段（如故事式開頭），逐句進行英語影子跟讀，注意模仿 speaker 的停頓和重音，例如在“Once upon a time”後適當放緩語速，增強故事感。其次，關注演講者的語氣變化，如提出問題時的升調的使用，這有助於提升口語表達的感染力，對提高英語發音的準確性也至關重要。最後，可將練習場景擴充套件到日常對話，嘗試用影片中的技巧開啟話題，例如在社交場合用“我們可能有共同認識的人”替代直白的自我介紹，強化實際應用能力。建議使用專業的shadowing site進行反覆練習，逐步縮短跟讀延遲，實現與原音的同步輸出，從而真正掌握演講開頭的藝術。

影片中的語法

說話人最常用的結構，並附上影片中的原話：

結構	影片中的用法
現在完成時 have/has + 過去分詞 — 過去發生但與現在仍有關聯的事	I've come · I've just signaled · they've walked
定語從句 who / which + 從句 — 補充說明人或事物	people who are · people who built

什麼是跟讀法？

跟讀法 (Shadowing) 是一種有科學依據的語言學習技巧，最初開發用於專業口譯員的培訓，並由多語言者Alexander Arguelles博士普及。這個方法簡單而強大：您在聽英語母語原聲的同時立即大聲重複——就像是一個延遲1-2秒緊跟說話者的影子。與被動聽力或語法練習不同，跟讀法強迫您的大腦和口腔肌肉同時處理並模模擬實的講話模式。研究表明它能顯著提高發音準確性，語調，節奏，連讀，聽力理解和口語流利度——使其成為雅思口語備考和真實英語交流最有效的方法之一。

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本節課學習內容

核心詞彙與短語

練習技巧

影片中的語法

什麼是跟讀法？