Question 7 • 2025-2026 TPS IC Speech- Introduction to Communications and Speech B with Mrs. Roudybush
Helen is an experienced public speaker and has been practicing medicine for over 20 years. She is at a regional physician’s conference, and has just been asked without any prior warning to stand up in front of hundreds of doctors to describe a very complicated medical procedure. What should she do?
Answer
A
quickly decide on the main points she’d like to address and how to transition from one point to the next
B
excuse herself and hide in the bathroom until the conference is over and everyone goes home
C
script out her speech on a napkin before she stands up in order to read it word for word
D
carefully prepare notecards and rehearse a few times in order to be flexible and seem more natural