In our final year of publics speaking we were brought to a local school hall to learn how to use a microphone and even walking onto the stage gave us the shivers. However our teacher stood at the end of the all shouting “Can’t hear, Can’t hear� until we had mastered the art of using the microphone without deafening ourselves and everyone else. She explained that our final examination would be held in this hall before an invited audience of 500 people. We would speak in groups of four giving four different sides to a topic. Mary was more agitated then the rest of us but the teacher had chosen as her subject “Gypsies� and she spoke passionately and caringly about them and brought the roof down. Only her classmates knew that her knees were knocking. Evidently all the hard work had paid off because the night was a huge success.

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