these is an old arch as you can see is the key in the middle the renders holding everything up it's absolutely solid so repaired 1886 can you hear me now I'm in fun I'm in fun we're now filming a new DJI Osmo action 3 so hopefully this sounds good everything else is better than the GoPro so hopefully the microphones are better too there you go we're going to start knocking them in dropping it's getting to this we might just run this run the evolution store across the render and it's slotted in make it make it fit so get a trial mate just run a trial across it so yeah we'll stick you in time lapse and see what the time lapse is like on this bad boy and we'll catch you in a bit there's Jason rummaging in the bins see if we can find anything what we're doing with these drills is rattling the brickwork in it so just above where lintel's going and we're going it we're going to cut across that basically where the lintel's going so that brickwork could come out easier so we've got the evolution up and we're going to give it a quick whirl brew time go see Jason absolutely right we've cut everything out there's our seating we've just got to bring it up to here so probably get a concrete common in here I'm going to build this bit up build this up with a few bits of common and build across it these are these are a bit loose but they're fine we'll just wedge them back up these is an old arch as you can see there's the key in the middle the render's holding everything up it's absolutely solid so we're going to take this end out Alex is out send this seating end out ready for the lintel once that's done we're going to run across again with this key evolution so get the right height for the lintel get the lintel in got back up so there you go it's going to be a quick break and we'll get back up here all right we're back still try getting our head down i've used this camera but actually the signal time lapse that's what cuts out now playing to see where the other lintel is now so we just need to get our pieces cut for each end for our seating i'm going to patch this area up here so the seating it's got something solid to sit on and that bit there will actually patch when the window comes out and yet the lintel's here Jason and Alex got the lintel up there's the arch the original window from the that's the arch from there to there so it's already a small window and then you've extended it and then just put a bit of wood under it we've pulled the pieces metal out which we think probably caused the crack but that's been cut off and that's gone so yeah there's a concrete break to the and the lintel in and then took point it and a couple of splits to put on the top there and then that's it that's all steady away we've got a few to do on this there's a lot of timber which is rotted behind the renders now the renders off each for each one each window that happens in fact i'll put a couple of pictures in as i'm talking here now so um you'll see what we're up against uh the next couple are about 2100 this is a 15 so once Alex has got that mix done we'll get get our commons cut and get this put in catching a bit come down a bit because there's no bed on that so you put you make the last of your bed so i'm coming up yeah that's the most bricklaying i've done for you months two days on the truck you need your hand jay just watching so hello beds are on i'm gonna lift this thing in now top point above it put a couple of splits at that end but we've got the saw to do that in a sec so i think go to me be if you want just show you how you from up here well nice spot luckily it's quite warm and not too windy so that's it it's done we're almost done 98% done yeah we've got a good enough test to get close with this no it's a little bit up build that screw in you see it in new length and then just pass that as we need to do it cut this off sort of packing that out i just patched his end so we've just got a little bit left to do here and a little bit left to do there and that's finished the the crack the crack the crack the crack's now safe it's going nowhere now that's that's our morning done so we're going to head down now wait till you see that lintel but yeah that one's done so i'm going to pack up get set up down there and then go for this so i'll get another mix ready and now come up and get that finished yeah we're already out mixing today are we yeah we're getting the mix ready for today no it's just been nice and clean don't want to make it mucky again yeah so safe to dinner right hopefully oh yeah i can see i've got a little screen telling me the microphone's working so we're back on the farmhouse Alice's been getting the mix ready so this Saturday's job that'll be i'm not sure that's in this video or not right and then she's pointing up got a bit of points to do on the top here once that's patched in we can pinch this section of scaffold here to see this little up up here we can take this and slotted it around here so we're on the front today got two two point ones to go here and it's bloody freezing i've got my little um my little pet on today so hopefully that's helping with the wind noise because it's blowing a gale it's blowing right off the no shelter here so here we go i think the render was holding this place together so yeah the bay winds have been done in the past so you see the concrete lentils in there there we go there good seating on them we've got the old window it's just like a traditional shape right two little windows down front door two little ones at the top and then they've done a lot of alterations on it badly so they've just chopped you left the head in and just put a piece of timber underneath it which has rotted away which is on 50 mil there packed them a bit of slate and it's not holding much but still 100 mil there with a looks like a concrete common underneath it so that's all coming out the stone head we're going to score it and break it off because it's it's broken anyway it can't be saved all that taking out got some headers at the top supporting it what's left over there and if you look there let me see i think this camera zooms in here we go might just make out but that says repaired 1880 so if it was repaired in 1880 imagine how old it is so that's our next one there it's a bit weird because the the scaffold set up for the renderers so it's not really suitable for us you've got like this deck that i'm stood on and it goes up let's zoom back out again there you go yeah there's our deck which we worked off Alex is on our little temporary one we did he's cracking on there and so this one up one over the porch and then back down again and then up again so we're probably just going to work off hop ups off this area and we can put a spot bottom there but the the 2.1 concrete so quite heavy well i say quite heavy i can't lift him alex and jason are lifting them yeah so that's the plan today and that side is proper ropey down the jam of the window so we're going to patch that up while we're up here so yeah i'm going to get cracking here get a hop up and start taking all this crap out how you can hear this because it's wind up here but i've just taken one of those bricks out you see behind the phone Alex takes the next one out i'm just going to say this could be where the the heads work but the head is away so it's not it's just i don't know i'm in my phone so we're going to take that out patch that up for the fresh new season and we're going to have to point that as we go pointing that way to know the way you're getting at it this this is a 110 mil on the top of our brick it's gonna be difficult but as usual we'll get over it so back on time actually this looks a little bit and then we'll get this out probably we'll do time by then that's it it's all out that wasn't too difficult so that box lintel patch it around there for the uh seating same here take that out as well because i've split that it's very rickety yeah that's the past the plan build the seat and build the season up Jason get it in let's go a bit so there's the black repaired 1886 i'm not sure they're taking that out and bringing it forward is this afternoon's job it's even worse this one's got to stay to that and this one's got plans to work on the job as well it's even worse down that side yeah we'll get this thing up and get it in i've probably just got to get the seasons done before break and get it up get it lifted enough to break so it's done off a little bit so catch after break and we're back it's done on that side and the pointer man today yes just throwing a few of the gaps obviously you can't really point the whole thing you'd never stop you'd end up re-rendering it yeah it's all very loose but it's like if you start taking the loose ones out you take the whole thing down so you've just got to put that out your mind and prepare what you've got so i've just this is just got into the bigger gaps a couple of commons in a couple of pieces of slate level that that little there so it doesn't drop obviously because this is wet this is 21 which is a heavy basket so yeah we've added this bike we've got these little hop-up extensions so get this in and then we've got to put the bricks in from the end and point them from the end i think i've already said but let's put you on time that's where we get this in come back to a windy house in the country we're done we've not filmed the last hour or so probably a couple of hours we've really struggled with that but we've managed to get it done very awkward trying to get the bricks up there buckle it down and get it just putting it up like that i'm just getting in bit by bit you couldn't tuck it in with the tuck points like you normally do the way we like to do and get it nice and tight you've got it as best because because like six nine it's worse so the other the other skin's doing all the work this is just sealing everything up and making it all safe obviously getting rid of the tim but you can't render render over tim like that it needs to be out alex and me to start on this head this one's a lot tougher get along came out with a little hammer this one's like yeah this one's taller for a start yeah yeah yeah so um alex is going to go down there and start tidying up that area and i'm going to take over this end okay i'll stay here for an hour and if you drag it through for me then if you aim as hard as i said just knocked out with the hammer pop anyway it's out it did go right up to the headers so it's solid big old piece though so same again we're going to that side's fine so we're going to bed off that little pieces to get in there this side is a bit worse so we've got that for ourselves and then this is a bit ropey so i've took all the foam out and it's more it was like this more or less all the way down so i've took a few extras out to get a decent key in you've got your headers here and headers there i think but anyway just give us a bit of extra key we might just bring it in just a little bit more yeah so i'm going to get this patched up now and get the seat ready and hopefully get the lintel in today we're not going to get patched over the top today let's bloody awkward that so we'll get this little bit patched up and then by that time we'll get out of the chasing to get the lintel up but yeah we missed that so we're going to take it out and redo it yeah we've just got these duct planks doubled up here to get it in because all the scaffold set up for the end just like i said it's all wrong for us so these are just here tempers you can get it in and now we can start patching up we've got a bit of more enough left to patch up to here and get it secure tonight um the band on level with that one the top's way out like this this this is because deeper than this have that 20mm so yeah i'm gonna get these two pieces in and get it like gobbled up and see how much more so we can get left for that and then maybe get a few over the top if we can Jason keeps pinching the mortise tonight our last mix so yeah i managed to put it down on my hand so you missed that um yeah let's get these in right double double intro good morning right we didn't get finished yesterday because they ended up more over than we thought so you might just see the lintels in let's come around here nice outside toilet yeah that one's in so that one was awkward getting back in this one was awkward getting out because it's three-quarters the way it was a stone head it was a big stone head it went from the on top of the timber until right up into the headers it was thicker and it was a lot tougher so that set us back but we managed to get all the patching done around the side did the hold side that side's okay and we got the lintel in that bedded in so that's ready for later so instead of putting a little mix and then patching that up we're um prepping these two windows same again taking all the foam out taking all the little ones out and then taking the odd one out to extend the um toothing in so it's nice and strong that one's not too bad but it will need a bit of fettling especially at the bottom Alex here because um he's already been on this side let's see it's all nine it's so it's pretty straightforward that's all ready to go so once we've got this side done we can um we can get in get a mixing then we've got plenty to go out then we've got three windows and then a little two yeah three two windows and a little to go out so here's your two Alex a minute let's see if it'll do a mic test one two one two can hear me now can you hear me now i'm in fun i'm in fun can you hear me now well hopefully that worked so there's our battle plan we're gonna get these windows stripped i've already started on one as you've probably seen yeah i hope they're working otherwise this will all be cut hopefully this lintel arrives we can get started on that window and then we'll get cracking out the point in there and then you want to go in that side the flat wall there's the outside of it it goes in back to the house up there just to the scaffolders so it goes up and in everything else is gone tuning stacks con the two the stack inside con and five places all gone so they're just going to block that hole up so they can cross the whole wall straight what a day anyway i've had a little fettel up here look and it works out so here goes the brick bedding so i've been around the back and cut a load of my cuts these rocks have to be had anyway going down to 125 because i'd like to have a decent size bed 15-20mm so actually get the most in too tight you'd never get it in so Alex just passing these up to me now i'm going to get this in and i'll show you around later what we've been up to last filmed bit of that bit of this bit of that cold polishing a turd but it's only rendered and how do you follow that we've got another window to do but we're not coming back tomorrow because our installation arrived on the extension job so we're going back there tomorrow to get the just like correct and do a bit more digging and preparation around the outside of it and we'll probably get a load of brick load that was actually get them covered up with our brick jackets so um you know it was a busy day tomorrow and then we're going to come back here Thursday Alex's got an appointment at the hospital so he won't be in i'll be um i'll be here on my own well i'll be here with Jason but um Jason can't help me with doing the uh the big lintels we're doing the lintel around the far side over the kitchen the kitchen's going in soon so they need the kitchen window in to the plastering so that's the plan get that done Thursday where there's going to be a feat we'll be working under the scaffold so if you know you've put on it before sheet over the scaffold give us a bit of shelter and it's only lintel so i'll just have to man up and work in the main way now so yeah i'll put you back in town once now while we get the rest of this in so catch in a bit hopefully this mic's working so we're done another walk as one as you can see it's damn long we're getting up there behind the face you are and then there's like a lip of render that hangs down just enough to stop you getting your trailer and you've got to go up behind the render behind that ridge and get it in there it's rock hard yeah so do the cuts i did and then just a bit of patching up at the end here to level it all up polishing a turd but that's the way it is it's all going to get rendered over again so that's the front done that done patch around the front windows the three sides are done down there one there one down there and the left hand side of that other window down there just make out the roof there and then Alex has been inside and picked up the chimney chimney breast which i'll show you when i go down but for now it's just have a quick brush up and we're done next lintel is around the side next to the door we did and that's going to be thursday on the bad day when alex isn't in so yeah let's get tidied up and get off home so that could be the next video if it is it is if it's not it's not i'll get Alex doing outro at some point speak of the devil so quick tidy up and skidaddle well it seems that we forgot to film an outro again so from my room thank you all very much for watching if you enjoyed be sure to give us a thumbs up and if you're new to the channel you want to see more be sure to subscribe and tap on that bell for notifications that way you'll always be notified when we upload that's always a massive help and we greatly appreciate all the support you guys give us this has been brookling with steve downstairs and alex from his room we'll see you in the next video


Lecture 43 As-Salamu Alaikum. Welcome to the virtual university's course on business and technical communication. In lecture 43 and lecture 44, we will talk about giving speeches and oral presentations. In these two lectures, we will learn to categorize speeches and presentations according to their purpose, analyze the audience for speeches and presentations, and we will discuss the steps required in planning a speech or presentation. We will also learn how to develop an introduction, a body, and a close for a long formal presentation and select design and use visual aids that are appropriate for various types of speeches and presentations. Finally, we will talk about delivering your speech or presentation and how to handle audience questions effectively. Let's start with the key thing that you need to do, the main thing that anybody needs to do when they are starting out any form of communication within business. Let's have a look at an example. We are going to look at a communication dilemma at a company called the Keys Group. Brad Keys, who is the main person in the company, the owner of the company, believes that acceptance in the community is their key and his company is called Keys Group and the company operates 11 KFC fast food restaurants in Georgia, USA. Now, when Brad Keys started out in the restaurant business nearly 30 years ago, he realized that good food was only half the battle of being successful in the restaurant industry. He realized that if he wanted to succeed in business, he'd have to gain people's respect. He'd have to persuade bankers to loan him money and he'd have to persuade big companies to do business with him. He'd have to convince employees to work hard and convince customers to trust him. But how would he do all this? How would he do all this convincing? Now, if you were Keys, whether you were addressing a large crowd or an audience of one, what would you need to know about preparing, developing and delivering speeches? If you are a business owner and you want to interact with all these people, with bankers, with customers, with employees, then what would you have to do?  Let's see what you would need. You would need to define your purpose, analyze your audience and develop a plan for presenting your points. Let's talk first about defining your purpose. Speeches and presentations can be categorized according to their purpose, much as interviews and meetings. The purpose helps you determine a content and style. It also affects the amount of audience participation that occurs. When you're trying to motivate or entertain your audience, you generally do most of the talking. During your speech, the audience then plays an essentially passive role. They listen to your remarks, but they provide very little input in the form of comments or questions. So therefore, then you control the content of the message. On the other hand, when your purpose is to provide information or analyze a situation, you and the audience generally interact somewhat. The degree will vary, but there will be some interaction. Basically, a group of people then meet to hear the oral equivalent of a written report. Then the audience members offer comments or ask questions. The most interaction occurs when your purpose is to persuade people to take particular action or collaborate with them in solving a problem or reaching a solution. Now, based on this purpose, you generally begin by providing facts and figures that will increase your audience's understanding of the subjects. You might also offer arguments in defense of certain conclusions or recommendations. In addition, you invite the audience members to participate by expressing their needs, suggesting solutions and formulating recommendations and conclusions. Because persuasive and collaborative presentations involve so much audience interaction, you can have relatively little control of them. And because you need to be flexible enough to adjust to new input and unexpected reactions, you cannot stick to a pre-written script. Now, a speech or presentation can often accomplish several of these purposes simultaneously. It is not necessary that a speech or presentation accomplishes only one purpose. It happens many times that a speech or presentation accomplishes only one purpose. Once you have defined your purpose, you will be analyzing your audience, which is another basic element of your speech or presentation. Now, this analysis of the audience is particularly important because you will be gearing the style and content of your speech. Two, your audience's needs and interests. First, you will consider the size and composition of the audience. You can easily involve audience members in your presentation when you speak to a relatively small group. With more than 12 people, it gets difficult to manage that involvement and it gets difficult to manage the give and take that is essential in building a consensus. So, then your approach may be more towards telling than asking because obviously, if it is a large group of people, then you cannot listen to everybody and give them information simultaneously. So, then it will be more one way. A homogenous group, a group that is very similar in their knowledge will benefit from a focused speech or presentation. A diverse group on their other hand requires a more generalized approach because their interests will be diverse, their knowledge level, knowledge basis will be diverse. Therefore, you will have to take a more general approach to the information that you give out. And then you will use less technical jargon and present a broader picture. Obviously, if there is a group in which everyone has the same level and their knowledge is the same, technical knowledge is the same, then the presentation will be more focused. But if there are people in your group whose knowledge is very different from each other, then your presentation may be less technical and more general. Another important factor is your audience's likely reaction to your speech or presentation.   Try to learn as much as possible about their level of understanding. How much do they already know about your subject? Depending on that, you will be able to determine what you need to include in your presentation. Take a cold hard look at their relationship with you. Think, do they already know you? Do they respect your judgment? The answers to these questions will help you decide on the best way to go about planning your speech. If your listeners know you and respect your judgment, then your presentation will have a different style. For example, your listeners do not know you, they do not respect your judgment. They may be skeptical towards you. They may wonder who you are and why you are qualified. Then your content and style will be different. Then you come to planning your speech or presentation. Planning an oral message is similar to writing a written message. The planning phases are similar. You will develop the main idea like you do when you are planning a written message. You will construct an outline. You will estimate the appropriate length and decide on the most effective style. Now when you are establishing the main idea in your planning phase, you will start by focusing on the big picture. What is the main idea or theme that you want to convey to the audience? What is the general idea or theme that you are trying to convey to your listeners? Look for a one-sentence generalization that links your subject and the purpose to the audience's frame of reference. Much as an advertising slogan would point out to an audience how a product is useful for them. We are going to have a look at some examples of these generalized statements. If you say demand for your low-calorie, high-quality frozen foods will increase because of basic social and economic trends. A statement like this will alert your colleagues or the people you are presenting to to the fact that it will be useful for them to listen to your presentation because the company is going to face some profit. There will be a higher demand for the product that they are producing. Similarly, if you say reorganizing our data processing department will lead to better service at a lower cost. By giving a positive statement like this, it is a generalized statement. We are telling the people who are listening to your presentation of the benefit that they and the company will have. Similarly, we should build a new plant in Texas to reduce our operating costs and to capitalize on growing demand in the Southwest. Now, each of these statements puts a particular slant on the subject, one that is positive and directly related to the audience's interest. After this, we come to organizing the outline with a well-crafted main idea to guide you. You can begin to outline the speech or presentation. You will gear the structure. You will think about the subject, the purpose, the audience and the time allotted for your speech or presentation. If, for example, you have 10 minutes or less to deliver your message, you will organize your thoughts as you would in a brief memo or letter. You will use a direct approach if the subject involves routine information or good news and use an indirect approach if it involves bad news or persuasion. Longer speeches, however, are organized like reports. Like we said, short speeches or short presentations that are less than 10 minutes will be organized like a letter or a brief memo and will be used as a direct or indirect approach. If there is a long speech, the organization will be like a report organization. If the purpose is to entertain, motivate or inform, then you will use a direct order which is imposed naturally on the subject. If the purpose is to analyze, persuade or collaborate, then you will organize your material around conclusions and recommendations or around a logical argument. You will use direct order if the audience is receptive and you will use an indirect order if you feel that the audience will not be receptive to what you are saying if you are expecting some resistance to your ideas. A carefully prepared outline may be more than just the starting point for composing a speech or presentation. If you plan to deliver your presentation from notes rather than from a written text, your outline will also be your final script. Your outline is not just a starting point. If you want some notes in your speech to remind you of what you want to say, then your outline can also be a note. It can be used as a final script. And for this reason, the headings on your outlines should be complete sentences or lengthy phrases rather than one or two word topic headings. If you only write one or two words in your topic headings, you cannot do that as a script function. That is why it is better to write full sentences or long phrases for each point of your outline. Many speakers also include notes that indicate where visual aids will be useful. If you use visual aids, you can also write where and where which visual aid will be included. You will also remember where you have to include visual aids. You might also want to write out the transitional sentences that will connect the main points. Experienced speakers often use a two column format that separates the stage directions from the content. Stage directions, which we just talked about, if you want to add visual aids, you have to give yourself a prompt that there will be visual aids. If you want to write transitional sentences that will also be your stage direction. Just like in a theater, there are directions for the stage or if you are in a drama, there are also directions. Similarly, you have written directions for yourself that you have to write in one column. And the main content, headings, are written in one column. So that you do not make a mistake and say directions. You may have to adjust your organization in response to input from your audience. Especially if your purpose is to collaborate. You might want to think of several organizational possibilities based on what if assumptions from the audience. For example, if you want to collaborate and your audience will be very involved in your presentation. There will be two way exchange of ideas. Then you will have to have some flexibility in your outline. You will have to think of different possibilities as well. Now estimating the length how much time will you need for a presentation in order to make sure that it is effective. Time for speeches and presentations is often strictly regulated. So you need to tailor your material to the available time.  So you need to fit that material in that time. And you can use an outline to estimate how long your speech or presentation will take. I am going to give you a few tips that will help you in estimating the length of your presentation to fit into a given time. The average speaker can deliver about 125 to 150 words a minute which corresponds to 20 to 25 double-spaced typed pages of text. So if you have 20 or 25 double-spaced pages of information typed, then you can deliver that information at the speed of 120 to 150 words a minute. The average paragraph is about 125 to 150 words in length so that most of us can speak a bit of about one paragraph in one minute. Suppose you want to make three basic points in your presentation. In a 10 minute speech, you could take about two minutes to explain each of these points using roughly two paragraphs for each point. If you have only 10 minutes and you want to explain 3 points then you can explain every two minutes in two minutes. After that you can introduce each of these points in 8 minutes and then you would have two minutes left to interact with the audience. So this way you can split your 10 minutes. Similarly, if you have an hour, you can introduce your presentation in the first 5 minutes. You can build a wrap-up and give an overview of your topic. Then in the next 30 to 50 minutes you could explain each of the 3 points. You could spend about 10 to 15 minutes or 10 to 13 minutes per point. This would be the equivalent of 5 or 6 type written pages for each point. And then your conclusions might take another 3 to 5 minutes. This will leave you about 10 to 20 minutes for responding to questions and interacting with the audience. Now, this is an idea that you have as much time as the material is, you split it. But you also have to think that if you are not given time you have to estimate how long a presentation should be. So how do you have to make an idea of a short presentation or a long presentation. What is better? The 10 minutes speech or a short presentation. Now, this answer will depend upon your subject, your audience's attitude and knowledge and the relationship that you have with the audience. You can decide how long your presentation will be. For a simple easily accepted message 10 minutes may be enough. On the other hand, if your subject is complex skeptical, you will probably need more time. Make sure that you do not squeeze a complex presentation into a period that is too brief or draw out a simple talk any longer than necessary. Because if you try to give a complex information, complex presentation in a short time span then people will get confused. And if you try to explain a very basic point in a long time then people will get confused. So, you have to make sure that the time that you allocate is appropriate to the subject and the content that you are going to fit into that time slot. Another important element in your planning is the style that is most suitable on the occasion. You have to decide is this a formal speech or presentation in an impressive setting with professionally devoted visual aids or is it a casual role of your sleeves working session? Is this a very formal presentation? You have to prepare from the beginning or is it a casual session where people are sitting in the office talking casually and you have to present your ideas. The size of the audience the subject, your purpose your budget and the time available for preparation all determine the style. In general, if you are speaking to a relatively small group you can use a casual approach and that will encourage audience participation as well. A small conference room with the audience seated around a table may be appropriate. You will then use simple visual aids and you can also invite the audience to interject comments. Sahira, if there is a casual presentation with a small group sitting around a table talking casually you can also ask the audience to give your comments in between. Your tone can be conversational you can also use notes if you forget something then you can remind yourself. On the other hand, if you are addressing a large audience and the event is an important one then you will want to establish hold the presentation in an auditorium or convention hall and the audience will be seated in rows. You will show slides on films to dramatize your message. It will be better if you show a film you show slides, you use PowerPoint also then you will ask people to hold off their questions until you have completed your presentation because Sahira, there will be more people involved if everyone stops you if you start asking you will lose your presentation so you will ask people to ask after the presentation and you will use detailed notes or a complete script to guide your delivery but that does not mean that you will read from your notes, you will just use them to guide you Now with this we come to how to develop a formal speech or presentation till now we have talked about planning and planning developing a major speech or presentation is much like writing a formal report with one important difference however you need to adjust your technique to an oral communication channel whereas in written report your technique will be written when you are doing a presentation then you have to adjust it according to the oral communication Now this is both an opportunity and a challenge an opportunity lies in the interaction that you can have with your audience it is a very good opportunity that you cannot interact in written reports so this is very beneficial for you that you can interact there are many things that you can judge from audience reactions whether they are responding favorably or not whether they are bored and you can pace it when you speak before a group you are actually receiving information as transmitting it and therefore you can adjust both the content and delivery of your message as you go along you can edit your speech or presentation to make it clearer and more compelling instead of simply expressing your ideas you can draw out the audience's ideas and use them to reach a mutually acceptable conclusion you can also capitalize on non-verbal signals and convey information to and from your audience Now the challenge lies in maintaining control and accommodating your audience's limitations to get the benefit of oral communication you need to be flexible and this is also a little difficult when in written communication you can write easily you can plan from before in oral communication you need special flexibility at that time you might have to change the more you plan to interact with your audience the less control you will have if your audience has more interactions then you need more flexibility because your control will be reduced half way through the presentation you could hear an unexpected comment from the audience or an unexpected question from the audience and then that could force you to shift to a new line of thought in the middle of the presentation and this requires great skill at the same time you need to accommodate the limitations of listeners to prevent your audience from losing interest or from getting lost you need to use special techniques when developing the various elements of the presentation obviously it is a long presentation there is a lot of chance that the listeners will wonder about their interest so you need to use some techniques so that the audience's interest stays in your presentation you need to use all the elements of the presentation by keeping them in mind the techniques the various elements are the introduction the body, the clothes the question answer session and visual aids now the introduction how do we make the introduction better and the introduction is that our audience has their interest develop you have to accomplish a lot during the first few minutes of your speech or presentation you have to arouse your audience's interest in the topic you have to establish your credibility and you have to prepare your audience for what will follow now because all these three things are very important that is why developing your introduction takes a lot of time in fact it might take a disproportionate amount of time your introduction may be that long but it will take a lot of time to develop the length of the introduction when you have to arouse the interest of your audience you have to keep in mind that some subjects are naturally more interesting than others if you happen to be discussing a matter of profound significance that will personally affect the members of your audience chances are that they will listen to you regardless of how you begin your audience will be interested in your topic whatever you are saying about which presentation is their benefit they want to listen to it then you will listen to it all you really have to do is announce your topic for example you just need to say today I would like to announce the reorganization of the company obviously everyone will be interested in the company's reorganization to dealing with an uninterested audience is to appeal to human nature if the audience is not interested in your topic then you appeal to their human nature encourage them to personally take that subject find an element because of which the audience will be interested show the audience how they will be affected as individuals you are addressing clerical employees about a pension program you might want to start off like this it is in introduction you are saying if somebody offered to give you 200,000 dollars in exchange for 5 dollars per week would you be interested that is the amount you can expect to collect during your retirement years if you choose to contribute to the voluntary pension plan during the first two weeks you will have to decide whether you want to participate if you retirement is many years away this is an important financial decision during the next 20 minutes I hope to give you the information you need to make that decision intelligently now in this because the presenter thinks that the audience is not so interested in this pension plan that is why he has told it as a breakdown as money how much money you can get you will contribute so much and the audience is interested in that so that they can listen to the presentation make sure when you are trying to arouse the interest of your audience make sure that your introduction matches the tone of your speech or presentation if the occasion is supposed to be fun you might want to begin with something light but if you will be talking to a group of executives then don't waste time with trying to have a cute opening because business executives don't need your cuteness or light fun openings they want a business like opening also avoid jokes and personal anecdotes when you are planning to discuss a serious problem if you are developing a routine oral report don't be overly dramatic if you have a routine weekly report or you have to do a presentation about your work then you don't need a dramatic opening most of all try to make your introduction natural whatever purpose of your introduction should look natural not that you are trying to make that introduction interesting nothing turns off the average audience faster than a staged beginning after this we come to building which is another function of the introduction one of the chief drawbacks of overblown openings is that they damage the speakers credibility if you overblown or overblown or overblown and they try to do the opening and they fall flat or they flop then your credibility gets ruined the audience will have no difference and this the damage of your credibility is even worse than it's even more important that your credibility is established then arousing the audience's interest because if you have credibility the audience's interest will automatically be in your work speaker with high credibility is more persuasive than a speaker with low credibility when developing a speech it's important to establish your credentials quickly people will immediately know who you are when you are starting your speech people will then decide in a few minutes whether you are worth listening to or not when they will know about you they will realize if you want to hear or not of course if your credentials are impressive they will want to hear you and if they think you don't have the authority to talk to them then they won't be so interested in listening to you now establishing credibility is relatively easy if you are speaking to a familiar open-minded audience obviously if your audience knows you then they will also know your strengths and you can talk to them more openly about your achievements the real difficulty comes when you must earn the confidence of strangers people who don't know you especially of your credentials if you feel that the audience doesn't know you and maybe you are a little skeptical in their mind ask them who they are why they are giving us a presentation what qualifications do they have so it is important to establish credibility there and there is more difficulty one way to handle this problem is to let someone else introduce you it is very effective if someone else introduces you that means you don't have to praise yourself you don't have to speak about yourself because it still feels that you are showing off someone else will tell you what your achievements are but also keep in mind don't praise yourself don't put butter on the stage but tell your actual achievements if however you plan to introduce yourself if someone else doesn't introduce you then keep your comments simple but at the same time don't be afraid to mention your accomplishments obviously what you have accomplished your qualifications whatever it is that makes you qualified to give that presentation mention that but don't brag first of all take care that your listeners they will be curious about your qualifications so tell them briefly who you are and why you are there generally speaking one or two aspects of your background are all that you need to mention you can mention your position in an organization your profession and these things should be the key things that your audience is looking for something like this I am Karen Whitney a market research analyst with information resources cooperation for the past 5 years I have specialized in studying high technology markets your director of engineering John Labar has asked me to brief you on recent trends in computer-aided designs so that you will have a better idea of how to direct your research and development efforts as you can see in this introduction they gave their introduction what they are doing in which company what they have been doing for the past 5 years and why they are here because your company's director has called them to talk about a particular topic now this speaker establishes credibility by tying in her credentials with to the purpose of her presentation obviously she is saying this is what I am, this is what I have been doing and that ties in very well with what the presentation is by mentioning her company's name her position and the name of the audience's boss she lets her listeners know immediately that she is qualified to tell them something that they need to know especially when they have taken the name of the audience's boss they also get to know that your boss trusts me your boss thinks I am so qualified and by doing all this she is also connecting her background to the concerns of the audience she gave her own background she gave her own qualification and she made a connection with the concerns of the audience who are listening to the audience now after you have introduced yourself after you have established your credibility then you will need to preview the presentation you will give the audience a preview of what the presentation will be about you will first tell the audience what is coming in your presentation this preview adds to your authority and more importantly it helps people understand your message when you tell them that you will talk about this then your authority is established and the listeners it becomes much easier to understand your message in an oral presentation you will provide the framework your introduction will summarize the main idea it will identify the supporting points and it will indicate the order in which you will develop those points when you have established your framework then you can move on to developing the body of your presentation you will be confident then that your audience will understand how the individual facts and figures relate to the main idea because once you have given the entire framework to the audience now in this presentation we will talk about this then when you will start talking about the main body and start developing the main body you will also know that your audience will know what is the connection and how all the facts will be developed the audience has an expectation and you know that you are now living up to those expectations in this lecture we have learnt how to categorize speeches and presentations according to their purpose we have talked of the different purposes of presentations we talked about if the presentation is small or the presentation is less then how we will format it depending on the purpose if the purpose is to give good news or to give information then you will use the direct organization if the purpose is to give bad news or to persuade the audience then you will use the indirect organization similar to the kind of patterns the way you would determine patterns for writing and memos in written communication this way we have talked about the long presentations what will be their organization what will be the format when will be the direct plan and when will be the recommendations and conclusions will be centered depending on the purpose of the presentation if it is to analyze, to persuade to collaborate, to inform etc we also talked about analyzing the audience for speeches and presentations we talked about why is the audience important to analyze the audience for speeches and presentations what kind of audience will be depending on the length of the presentation depending on the purpose of the presentation if the purpose of your presentation is that it is informal whatever you want to tell you just want to tell in your company the audience is small and if you have less audience then the style of the presentation can be casual you don't need to prepare you can just look at the notes for this if your presentation is a large audience there are many people and the presentation is long some slides some video clips video film, powerpoint to keep the audience interested and your interaction will be less with the audience in a small group your interaction can be more in a large group you will have to tell them that there will be a question-answer session and that they should save their questions for the question-answer session if you have a normal presentation then you will not be able to complete your points in time we talked of the different steps that will be involved in developing your presentation we talked about the different elements of the presentation and how they were important we did an introduction to keep an eye on the main things that you need to keep in mind when planning your introduction or credibility and you prepare the audience for what will follow we also talked about the fact that when you are previewing the presentation that is when you are actually preparing the audience for what will follow first we talked about the introduction and credibility and then in the end we talked about this preview in which you will give an outline of your presentation we will look at how to develop a body and a close for long formal presentations we will finish the introduction and in the next session we will talk about the main body and the close we will also learn how to select design and use visual aids that are appropriate for various types of speeches and presentations and finally we will learn how to deliver your speech or presentation and handle audience questions effectively in the next session we will also talk about how to deliver the speech or presentation and how to handle the audience if you have any questions please feel free to email us the address is englishatvu.edu.pk until next time Allah Hafiz


We just completed our entry for a resin makers challenge using our door round and turning it into a resin door round And we'll show you how we did it right now What is up a welcome back do you like to do a builder to make it so do we and we have a new video each week this week We're in for a makers challenge a hanging resin makers challenge Yeah, that's the caveat for this one this resin challenge is it must be hanging so what do we make? We make door hangers, so we feel like this is a perfect challenge for us We haven't done much with resin lately, and we're looking forward to this project We've got a great idea of how to turn our door round into a resin door round and Ocean waves okay, so what we can do. Yeah Step one we're gonna gather all of our supplies. We needed resin because it's a resin challenge. We need to pigment powders Needed some quarter-inch MDF. I have some 20 by 20 sheets We're gonna use a resin mat here because this is what we're gonna use to do our resin pour on some silicone Mr. Cups mix cups we're gonna need a heat gun to pop bubbles and move around our pigment powders and a glue gun to seal our Door round to the mat and we're gonna use the glow forge to cut out the MDF step two We're gonna make all of our cuts. I'm gonna bring the quarter-inch MDF over to the glow forge. We're gonna cut out our door round Step three And now we paint we're just gonna give it a coat of our country chic chalk paint Yep, we first want to fill our surface here We the MDF is a little bit porous so we're gonna cover it in paint first and then we're gonna cover that in a coat of polycrylic and Then we're gonna add our resin on top because we think we think it'll keep it a little less bubbly little less It's like a sponge. It holds air So I think if we could seal the air in it won't come out in the resin and we're gonna use our country chic paint in Licorice all of a sudden I forgot the name driftwood and Crenolin is not what oh simplicity. I'm actually using simplicity. Yeah. All right. All right. I'll be quick Let's do that. Yeah, let's do a quick paint job And we're gonna do our sunglass frames in this raspberry sorbet. Ooh It looks beautiful. I love the color Step four Now we seal it before the pour we're gonna give it a quick clear coat with this poly acrylic Says it dries clear. We're just gonna try to seal all these little pores Time to prep the frame for resin. We're gonna hot glue the frame to this resin mat. It's a silicone mat We're gonna see if it sticks that and the sunglasses, right? Yeah No, well wait, I'm just gonna try to go around the edge. Well, I was thinking you would Just hot glue around the edge. Oh around the edge. Okay, just to keep it from Just how am I gonna do the inside? You're not gonna do the inside. I mean you can All right. Yeah, set that on now. The idea is this is gonna be heavy enough to hold it down All right, and keep it nice and tight And go around the edge Yeah Hopefully the hot glue doesn't stick to the round Well, did you put the poly acrylic on the outside? Yep This is the part I'm not a hundred percent sure on We're just winging it folks Prepare the resin We're just gonna mix part a and part b together and give it a lot of slow stirring a lot of slow mixing We're using this Illumilite amazing deep pour. So this is two parts a to one part b So there's already it comes that way. So we'll just pour them both in this Cup and hope we have enough You want a mask up? Yeah, let's mask up We are gonna wear respirators Six time to add the pigments. We have all these little pigments.  They must Shine we're gonna use this glowing sky blue. Yes, and then glow blue green We're gonna mix them in smaller containers and then blue little blue blue green and sky blue Seven time for the poor. This is where we Start to get really artsy. This is where Kim really starts to get artsy. Oh, I don't know about me We're using this roll of transfer tape to hold this centerpiece down tight I'm sure it's still gonna bleed under a little because I didn't seal the inside So we're just gonna leave this here to help add the weight and then we'll pour at the bottom Let's do it. We'll see what it looks like We're gonna de-mold it and assemble it one smooth move It's all set up. Everything's nice and hard. It's been 72 hours Yeah, after we left the shop the other day it sat for about 12 hours We came in in the morning. We saw that it was wrinkled We knew this project wasn't going to make it, but it did finally cure It took about 72 hours to fully cure it was still kind of soft in the morning and we let it sit there But you can't beat us can't hold us down So we started a second pour this time we use some whiteboard and we use the same technique of using the hot glue around the Edge to keep it down and then we just did everything the same So it's time to de-mold it or remove it from the mat. I'm not excited about this one I'm excited about the other one, but I want to see how easy it comes off the mat Just peel it off the mat. Oh, that's kind of cool looking it is Yeah, here's what I want to see You know, I knew we could get the glue off of the mat, but could we get the glue off of the MDF? We did a test. Well, does it matter with this one? Do you want to just go with the other one? I don't want to waste my time. No, don't waste your time. But I think we could sewage the sunglasses. Yeah, the sunglasses look great. Sunglasses. Oh, look it wrinkled underneath the sunglasses too. That's what the streaks are. That's pretty cool The sunglasses did a they didn't There's a little bit of a wrinkle underneath, but it didn't come all the way through So those are nice and solid and they look great I think it's like pop art stuck to the board I don't know if this will come off as easy as the other one did Oh, look at the seepage All right, that was a little harder than the silicone mat, but I think it came out better Yeah, look at that. How easy was it to get all this stuff off? I had to essentially cut it off like I was whittling So I basically just had to do one of these numbers Okay, for the next part of our assembly, we're going to go ahead and add our layers So we do have a center banner with the word summer and hello The center banner is going to glue in the center MDF that we left there Hello, I'm going to glue directly to the resin And we're going to glue the sunglasses directly to the resin Nine, and now we add the accents We're going to take it on down to bow town We're throwing our ribbon on for the hanger and Kim's making it a bow Making a little bow Now you know what I don't have is a sparkle Do you think we need something with some sparkle? No, no, no, no This barely needs a bow. This thing already sparkles I don't want to take away Sparkle ribbon I don't know I don't know, this is sparkly already Nobody will even be paying attention to the bow They'll be wowed by the translucentness They'll be swept off to the beach, they won't even know Alright, I'm just layering four pieces of ribbon on here Actually, I'm going to use a fifth one Because I feel like this one accents it well I'm going to attach it with a zip tie See what we got Alright, looking good There you go So all of our little hangers come with these little hanging holes We did a little custom job on those for this particular one Because of the resin But this is how we do it We pull our little bows through, our little ribbon through there Tie a little knot on each side And we'll come back and attach our bows You ready? Yeah Alright, what side are we going on? Yeah, that side Alright Get that zip tie Hold it like a champ Turn it nice and tight Straighten out our little ribbons I think it's a one time door hanger This is not a take it to the farmers market kind of project This took a little bit longer Than you can produce for a weekly farmers market But for this resin challenge I think this represents our style perfectly We have this store around in our store We make this every week for the summer And I think it's a great representation of what you can do with resin And still represent our style It definitely meets the criteria It's more than 25% resin It's hanging And I think it's a contender Yeah, it's pretty excited about it It's cute I can't wait to get it out in the sun I'm so glad we were able to get it off that board Oh, yes It was a little touch and go for a minute I was a little panicked Big thank you to all of our patrons These guys make all of this possible We love you guys Thank you so much We love interacting with our patrons Yes, if you're out there and you join us on Patreon I got a bunch of you guys out there That never say anything So jump in there Say hello Chit chat with us Give us your opinion You will vote in the polls And we do love that That's very helpful But you can get out there And let us hear your voice We love to see you guys Don't just lurk around waiting for the free files That's what we do All right, we are about out of time So if you're not going to join us for the patron after show We will see you next week We'll do it, build it and make it again Oh, yeah, here's the other one Here's the other version Oh, great, balance that one Yeah, I'll balance this one This is the one we own for our store We don't offer the resident one Wait, I want a bat Gotta make it official Gotta make it official Yeah, I slipped it over What's that one? We haven't had final shots yet Cracks, it's your fault


Hey guys, it's Nate, AKA The Foot Account. Welcome back to the channel. We have a huge SBC potentially coming today in FIFA 21. That is the most we'll look forward to SBC I think I've heard about in a while, specifically with the leak of that Renato Sanchez foot birthday SBC that should be coming today. Of course, this is the leak that we've been hearing about. All the leaks have been correct so far. We get pie at yesterday. I wanna talk about foot birthday team too, the crazy market movements that we have had and will continue to have. And just how the rest of the market is going bananas over this promo, right? The brand new promo cards are ridiculously expensive because they have crazy stats. They're as a way back would say jacked to the max in terms of the hype and the stats of these cards have it, how good they are in game. We've got a tall like extinct at 750K. We've got an Adama card that's 1.7 million coins. The most expensive card in this promo. We've got a Kent card, right? So everything is nuts, right? Everything is crazy right now and this Renato SBC is about to make it even get crazier. So I wanna talk about the card that we could see today as the Renato Sanchez foot birthday item. What that could be, how much it could be costing and also how I think the market's gonna react to it because I do think there is gonna be a crazy amount of market movements related to this card. So first of all, I wanna take a look at a concept card of how this Renato could look. I hope they give him the five star skills instead of the week foot upgrade, but this is just a concept from ATI Foot on Twitter. Just imagine this card with these stats today, right? This could be insane. Everybody's been talking about this with how OP this card is in game. It just kind of fits what EA is going for with this promo idea, by the way. Adama, Alar, Atal, like Kent, all these guys that are in team two are like kind of the rat, you know? Kind of the rat player type and player build that has been in FIFA and this year in the last year too, like with Kent and Adama. So let's talk about this Renato though. We are already starting to see people prepare for this by panic selling other versions of Renato. This card was 450K earlier today. He is down from 450 down to about 393. I honestly think this is probably gonna keep dropping into the morning. Now I will say, depending on how expensive Renato is today, this card could bounce back. So just kind of keep an eye on that. There could be a bounce back because the league one is making a return, right? With the cards that EA dropped today with Atal, with Alar, the Payet SBC, you know? There's some nice strong links you can have there. I think EA is kind of pushing the league one again. They just kind of pushed Bundesliga and the German links. Now it seems like we're maybe moving into league one a little bit with a few of these SBCs and promo cards that we have had released. So just to kind of point that out, I think Renato Sanchez today, if he does get a card, it's like 88 or 89 rated. They could easily price point that SBC around 800K to 1.2 million coins. I really think it could be in that range. Now all the SBCs, for the most part, for this promo have been pretty decently priced. Like you take a look at guys from Ozil and Podolski, Palacio at 180K right now because Fodder's dropped a little bit. Mongala, not so much. Vidal, right, 500K SBC. People went bananas for this card. I imagine what people are gonna do for Renato today. Marco Royce at 500K, technically the most expensive foot birthday SBC that we have had so far and how many people have crafted him with player picks? A ton, right? Payet today was 200K. So I honestly think that since all these SBCs have been decently priced, they could still decently price Renato today and that would take this market for a loop. I think you're gonna see panic selling across the entire game as we head into 6PM UK today on Saturday.  You know, we made a lot of profit yesterday on the foot birthdays and we'll talk about that but I honestly think these foot birthdays could have a small rise. The new ones could have a small rise into the day today but on a lot of stuff, I honestly feel like you could still see a lot of panic selling because the reason why we saw some prices drop yesterday was that people saw a team to a foot birthday and they said, screw my team, I'm gonna sell it and go do player picks and try to pack some of these cards. That's why you saw a lot of cards yesterday drop on the market in value. Like some of these cards, you know, the Saka Future Stars, now I know we had Ryan Kent and we had a lot of a tall as well so we had a couple right mids that were in the new team that were very hyped. This guy went from 1.6 million coins all the way down to the low 1.3s. Now he's rebounded back up to 1.4 but still, crazy panic selling and crazy selling on cards across this game. Comma Vinga was down a bunch because of Awar. You know, we were looking at even just some random cards like messy team of the group stage went from 1.25 mil all the way down to about 1.1 flat. Now he's almost back up to like 1.17, I think, 1.16 is this messy 1.8 actually but you know, you see, you saw a lot of panic selling and that was because people went out and did player picks for this new team too. Now of course, player picks are out for one more day. So you have one 24 hour period for this Renato SBC being out with the player picks. So people are really gonna try to craft player picks. Again, I think today on Saturday to get that fodder in their clubs. Now people have invested in fodder too. Now I also wanna take a look at the index and take a look at some of the cheapest players by rating because what's gonna happen with this stuff today? Now I think people were buying some of the stuff yesterday. It's still kind of, you know, just chilling around that price where it has been in the past, you know, 24 hours, right? After Thursday, after there was panic selling after the party bag SBC, you still got these 86s at 26, 27,000 coins. The 87s are at 36, 37. The 88s are at 47 and the 89s are at 60. So if Renato today does require like an 88 rated squad, 87 rated squad, I really don't know how high this fodder is gonna go because so many people have invested and they've done player picks and they have things in their club and they're prepared for Renato. So I did a club stock earlier this week. I bought some higher end stuff. I wasn't really buying that for it to go up today. I was buying that for a later SBC maybe in the next week or so, like an icon upgrade or something like that that people would maybe not be as much prepared for as they would be with this Renato. So could fodder go up today if Renato is really good value and a ton of people do him? Yes, it 100% could, but I don't think I see that happening like as a sure thing because again, there's a lot of people that have invested in that fodder will probably have more lightning rounds today and more supply on this game. So again, the Renato SBC is the main point that I wanna talk about today because it is gonna impact the market more. I think, I just clicked on the store for some reason, but I think these new foot birthday items might have a rise into the morning hours just a little bit.  I bought Tamori at 8.95 on the live stream earlier today after the second lightning round. I think right now he's 900K and he's rising, right? He's 900,000 coins. He was like 8.60 earlier and look how rare he is, man. He's only got this one page of cards all the way up to about 960K. So I do think these cards might fluctuate up a little bit. I was watching Kent as well. I'm kind of late to the party. These guys have already started to go up but Kent was down at like 815,000 coins. I'll take that. I would love a Ryan Kent at 800K. We move because this might be 900K yet in the morning. So I'm gonna take a flip there on Kent and try to flip that at 900,000 coins into the morning today on the UK timeframe because I do think these cards could bounce back up a little bit and then probably start sliding back down again with this Renato coming out. I do think you will see panic selling across the entire market today. First team for birthday cards, other out of pack specials, icons, almost everything. I think you're gonna see some panic selling on because people are really gonna be interested in seeing what this Renato is priced at and how much that he is. Now, depending on the panic selling today, you're probably gonna see some of that bounce back. So just keep an eye on some of these cards again because I do think you will see some items bounce back because there's just gonna be too much selling ahead of time because there's so much hype for this SBC. So I'd be a little bit careful with that, especially on the brand new for birthday cards. If you see a lot of selling on these pretty 6 p.m. content today because of course people will be thinking about Renato coming out and the lightning rounds. Just be careful with these because a guy like Adama or Sterling, they're not gonna get supplied that much during the lightning rounds and people are still gonna wanna try them out and use them because they're very, very hyped up, especially Adama and Kent and stuff like that. So those guys probably could bounce up after 6 p.m. as people go out and wanna try finishing their weekend league games and trying out these brand new for birthday cards that they hear are very hyped. So just keep an eye out for that sort of stuff on the market. Watch out for League 1 specials as well. If people are doing Renato, you'll see a panic selling and then a bit of a buyback later into the day. That's, it's gonna be crazy moves today. If Renato does come out and he's really, really, really good value, or even if he's not good value, there's just, I think if Renato comes out today, which he should be coming out because that's the league and the leagues have been correct, that you're gonna see people just sell all their stuff, start doing player picks, and it's gonna be basically what we saw yesterday on the market on Friday, kind of all over again today, but maybe even more because you had the week and they sell off later in the day on Saturday, starting to get involved with that. And Renato just has a lot more hype than what Payet did yesterday.  You're gonna see a ton, a ton of hype for that SBC today if it does come out. So that's kind of the market movements I think, I think you could see with that as well. The panic selling on this card, I do think it could bounce back depending on how much his SBC is.  But I do wanna talk about again, some of the movements with these foot birthdays, right? I'm glad that I went to trade with the new promo cards, just like we saw with team one. These guys fluctuated a ton. Now I lost a little bit in these Polinos. He didn't have as much hype, but I bought this Tamori at 890,000 coins yesterday during the second lightning round, sold it for 1.05, and I bought this at tall for 5.97. Now of course, looking back, it's like, yo, why do you sell the at tall?  But I do think some of these cards could rise back into the day today. I'm watching Tamori very closely because he is still semi low in my opinion, but a lot of these cards started bouncing up. Again, Kent is at, I got that snipe, which was really good, but he's probably gonna be on his way closer to 900K, I would think, at some point this morning before maybe you start to see some people selling some of these cards because they're preparing for the big Renato SBC. So that's gonna be an interesting watch to see if these cards do rebound at all. If there's hype there, there was so much hype last night and these cards are a lot more rare than team one. I do think you will see some of those rebounds happen on the market this morning, into the morning as people will wake up and wanna buy teams and stuff like that. So those are kind of my thoughts on the full birthday cards. We talked about SBC fodder. Now for the rest of the market, again, it's just gonna be kind of a mixed bag. Like what is gonna happen today with the Renato coming out? What is that gonna do to the game? And just the amount of hype there's gonna be on the player picks and stuff. Now I wanna see if some of these moments icons rebounded back today at all. Figo is one-six, okay? So there's a little bit of a bounce back on that card at least. Let me check on like Hugo Sanchez, how much is he, one-four, one-five. So some of these prime icon moments maybe bounce back a little bit after they got supplied like some of the market did, some of the out-of-packs market and just some of these really meta cards and stuff. Bounce back a little bit last night. Like the free same maximum that I got bounced back a little bit but not much. You might see some of that continue into the day today but if you have out-of-packs special cards that went up people are really gonna drain a lot of coins away today and I think that there's gonna be a lot of selling that happens today and that's the biggest thing that I'm worried about is that selling and what's gonna happen and just the hype around Renato Sanchez because I really, really feel like there's gonna be a lot of hype. Now we have not seen that SBC yet for the 83 to 89 upgrade. That could be something EA maybe released today as well to make it easier to do the Renato when he does come out. So that's something to kind of keep an eye on but of course this is the one everybody's gonna be doing. The 81 plus player picks. Now we did get Inacho and Benzema yesterday. This to me, in my opinion, if you're gonna do Renato if he does have high rated squads, if you're doing player picks this Benzema is pretty easy to do about 180, 190,000 coins with an 83 and 85 rated squad to do this. Very craftable, 94 rated usable cards semi-usable card in game and also this is probably the best value 94 rated card you're gonna see until team of the season. So not a bad card by any means but this Inacho is very overpriced. Not good value at all, 210, 215K for this card. You know, maybe if they would have upgraded his skills in a week foot kind of what they're doing at this foot birthday promo then it might be interesting but I really just don't know. I don't know why they price it there. Prem tax I guess you could say which was very interesting for that matter but I just wanted to make this video today man because I think Renato is gonna go bananas in the market today. I think it's gonna go crazy. Everybody's gonna want that card once they see the stats and they're gonna do whatever they have to do to go and get him. So I do see a lot of prices probably dropping today. It might be a crazy day a week in the sell-off and of course once people get Renato done they're gonna try to link him up with cards so if there's any link investments or maybe even some of your Portuguese icons maybe your Bruno Fernandez cards maybe your Joel Felix. You know, just keep an eye on those because some of those Portuguese links could resurface maybe Christiana won all those special cards too. Could resurface a little bit if Renato does get in along with like a tall Ben Jeter. You know the OR cards other league one specials that are pretty high in this game. Now I wanna make one quick note we basically figured out who the foot 19 SBC is because right away the content dropped today EA had a Valencia logo there. They took the screen away they swapped it with Atletico Madrid. Funnily enough we think we know who this is Condogbia was on Valencia in FIFA 19 and he obviously got transferred and actually changed nationalities to the Atletico Madrid team so EA kind of leaked their own card in a sense for foot 19. So that was kind of interesting yesterday when they did the content drop and then of course for foot 18 on Sunday we're gonna be expecting Eric Bayee as the SBC to come out. So that was kind of a quite interesting thing that we saw play out today. So I'm gonna take that Kent that I just got and try to flip that into the morning. You know if you have cards at a very high in price that are out of pack specials again I honestly might take the cash because these cards, these brand new ones coming into the game today. You know if we take a look at this AdamaTrayRA this card is getting insane reviews right now. 1.7 mil for this card is nuts but five star skills, high low, 98 strengths with the pace, the agility, the balance that this card has. I, this guy has to be absolutely incredible in game and I want no part to do with that card. So yeah these cards are very expensive. They're probably gonna drop off the ones that are in packs. You know they're gonna get supplied a little bit during the lighting rounds today and we'll see some market movements with these but a lot of hype for these brand new cards they are very rare because they were again less saved up packs and only lighting round supply means less of these cards actually on the market which makes it interesting to see them. So let me know down below which of these new foot birthday cards is your favorite. There are some cool ones in here right? If we look at the squad, I think that we can say this foot birthday to squad is better than team one. I think we can say that not just from like a meta perspective but just from like who they boosted and how cool it is right? I just feel like the cool factor for these cards is here right? The tall of the five star five star is nuts the Adama okay whatever the Kent all right that's kind of like a play on you know FIFA 20 the rats you know gameplay mentality Sterling though looks really cracked is going to be nuts. Modric looks really cool. Gunther is a much needed left back in the Bundesliga. Timore looks pretty dope. Even Bernardeschi five star five star Bernardeschi. I know he may not feel like insane in game with his height and his body type of stuff but a hundred K for a five star five star center attacking mid with Ronaldo links is dope. Polenio looks pretty cracked and honestly like the worst card in his team for me is this Chan dude 71 acceleration.  So I don't know I think team two is more hyped in my opinion than team one. And yeah I think that's going to show what their prices as well because these guys are definitely a bit more expensive than team one. We've got two cards at 1.7 mil a piece and Sterling and Adama and we've got our over a mil. Of course we've got Tamori extinct at 900 or sorry not extinct but he's around 900 K a tall is extinct at 750 and Kent is like 809 or K so a lot more expensive team two but I think that's just because it's more hype more people want to get involved with it. So again the big boy today is this Renato Sanchez SBC. I think there's more panic selling in store. I honestly think you're going to see prices dropping across the market if this card is reasonably priced as an SBC and even if it's not reasonable people are still going to do it because the card is going to look nuts and they know it is going to be insane in game. So I'm just kind of ready for the madness that this is going to bring out today inside a fever. So if you like this video give it a thumbs up comment down below if you have any questions and subscribe if you are new it's been Nathan Foot account and I'll catch you guys later peace out.


It's widely known that they have the human intelligence of a 5-year-old, but they have the emotional intelligence of maybe a 2- or 3-year-old. That can be really difficult.  Hello my fellow sniffers and flighters. My name is Marlene McCohen. Are you saying sup? This is Marlene and Marlene wants to say what's up. Marlene also apparently wants to leave the video. Marlene's like literally your first sit-down where you're kind of supposed to just be in the video. How about you try this site and we want to welcome you. Okay. Yeah, we want to welcome you to our channel. Marlene is here today because we were going to talk about something special, which is five reasons why African Greys are my favorite kind of bird. Yeah, I said it. They're my favorite. What do you think about this, huh? I have a bird right here who's kind of upset about that, but I mean that they're my favorite species, not that you're loved any less Jersey. Marlene, I don't know if you know how this goes, but generally I like to have... Do you want to play with something? Can I give you something to play with? Are you looking for something to play with? Generally, Marlene, I like to have the bird I'm talking about in the video, okay? Interesting. Okay, cool. We'll see how long that lasts. Before we go on this video, let's do a couple of shout-outs real quick. I want to give some shout-outs to some people who are part of my flighters club. First shout-out goes to Valerie Kruger. Jersey just left. Second shout-out goes to Janet R. Weissman, Jane Guy, Nerdy Birds, and Katie Rudnick. Guys, I have a lot of birds in this room. Even though you can't see them all, a lot of them are here and then one is outside waiting for me. So I have to get right to it. That right there is one of the reasons why I love African Greys. Oh yeah, by the way, I hope you guys like my merch. This is Vinnie. The official Vinnie from the Vinnie Gang is outside waiting for me. For those of you new to the channel and aren't familiar with Merlin, you might ask why Merlin is plucked. Merlin is a rescue. I got Merlin from Parrot Sanctuary and I found out recently, for those of you who are not new to the channel, that Merlin's actually been plucking since he was two years old and Merlin is now 20 years old. So this is going to be a habit that's probably near impossible to break, but I mean, who knows, we'll try, right? So I know a lot of you guys are going to ask that. So Merlin has only been with me probably like a few months. I have a lot of birds and I promote Gage Not Caged, which means that you engage with your parrots, you include them, you stimulate them, and you don't cage them. Not that they don't have a cage, just that that is not what you get a bird for.  You have heard me say this before. If I woke up tomorrow and had to start all over again for whatever reason, hopefully never, and didn't have any birds, I'd always have to have an African Grey and a mustache parakeet. So the first reason why, and these are in no particular order, because I love doing no particular order, you just come down to step up on my hand. Okay. Is their intelligence. All birds are intelligent.  My cockatiel won me over when I was seven years old, because it was just such a genius of a bird. So this day, I'm still impressed with that bird. So by no means do I mean that African Greys are more intelligent than any bird, but they are known for their intelligence. And it's their specific type of intelligence that I'm attracted to. And what that is is their cognitive intelligence, their ability to understand and communicate fascinates me. And by communicate, I do mean talk, but that's not a reason to get a bird. My two African Greys that I have now do not talk as well as my first African Grey George. And until this day, I haven't met many other African Greys that talk like him, but that doesn't mean I don't love them any less. And that doesn't mean that they can't communicate with me in the same way that George did. I have many, many stories on George, my African Grey and how he communicated with me. And you can check those in my storytime playlist, African Grey George stories. I think you guys will enjoy them. Some birds have a more physical intelligence that they like to display. Cockatoos are kind of known for being MacGyver's, getting their way out of things physically. Whereas African Greys are incredibly communicative. If you guys haven't researched anything about African Greys before coming to my videos, I would recommend you go check out Irene Pepperburg and her African Grey who since past named Alex. You could see that Alex is able to recognize different shapes and different colors. So for example, if you have a plate of lots of blocks and some of them are circles, some are squares, but some are also red and some are blue. You could say how many blue squares. The process of deduction that he would have to get to to answer that is incredible and Alex can do it. And even if you don't train your bird or study with your bird that much that he can get to that point. Believe me, if you have an African Grey in the house, you will be fascinated by all of the things that they display to you and all of the things that they learn and they just keep on learning. And again, in no way is this a comparison to other birds to say that African Greys are smarter. It's just their type of intelligence and the way they communicate that I'm in love with, which brings up what would you say about Marla? And by the way, Merlin specifically, like he talks a lot, he mumbles and stuff, but like he doesn't say so many things so clearly and that may change. Even though he's already 21 years old or at least 20, that doesn't mean that he won't be able to learn. Maybe in my house things will change. You never know. But yeah, he talks a lot of nonsense like this, but he is able to communicate. He literally said to me the first day he got here when I was eating something, he said want some and I was like, whoa, okay, you're communicating. And that's the kind of communication I like that I find is fascinating, which brings me to reason number two. They will teach you a lot about yourself. I think I love this because as an actor, I am a human behavior analyst. Birds are the same, but specifically African Greys. African Greys will pick up on all your habits and when you change something, they may make that noise. Let me give you a few examples. With my African Greys, George, I remember one day I set my alarm for like five days in a row. I needed to go to a movie set and wake up at 8 a.m., not a morning person. On the fifth day, my day off at 8 a.m., my alarm rings and I'm like, what the heck? But it wasn't the alarm. It was the bird that kind of analyzed that this is what's supposed to happen. Furthermore, because I would include my bird in every single thing that I did, let's say I would wake up in the morning and get myself ready.  And all of the noises that would go into that like opening the cap of this, closing the cap of that, shutting the mirror, you know, the mirror door that carries all this stuff. All of those noises George would pick up and he would do them along with me. So it was very fascinating. So I remember I had like this natural flower face spray. It had no perfumes or anything like that. Just like a little natural like dandelion or something.  Like you just told me what I needed to do. Another thing that George would do is like, I would go like this. All right. And before I said, all right, he would say, all right. And then that made me realize that I say, all right all the time. And when he would have phone conversations with people that he was calling, he would say certain things that made me realize that I say things that I didn't know I said or I didn't know that I consistently said, but the bird did. Same with Cody. Cody, my African gray will totally stutter. He'll have like a fake phone conversation and he's imitating George and George doesn't realize like how much he stutters, but Cody does. And finally George was like, you're right. I do stutter. You always tell me, but I didn't know until Cody did it. Also, if George goes to the sink, like Cody will make the noise of George blowing his nose and I'm just like, yeah, we'll know that someone has a cough in the house because miraculously Cody now has a cough. That's just something that's very interesting to me. How they can teach you a lot about your own human behavior specifically African grays because they have the ability to mimic and make all sorts of sounds that no human could make. I mean, we're talking about beeps and buttons and growls and like microwave noises and camera noises. They could imitate a chainsaw if they heard it. I'm sure you guys can go back and find my story about the time that my African gray George literally did an exorcism, which was scary enough, but he did it. And these are the kind of stories and things that just fascinate me. And on that note, that brings us to reason number three. I like them because they're not loud. Let me clarify what I mean by not loud. Can they be loud? Absolutely. And not only that, but any noise that they like, they can amplify. So I had my African gray George with my mustache parakeet and African grays can learn all the, see the beeps, all of the animals in your house noise, like your cat, your dog. They can bark, they can meow and they'll do it louder than the actual cat does it or louder than the actual dog does it. So if you don't like a particular noise, let's say you have construction going on outside your house. It could be extremely loud. I mean, they can do the trucks backing up, the saws, the whatever goes into construction.  So if any noises irritate you, yeah, they will pick it up. But with that being said, it's not like having a cockatoo where let's say if Jersey wants to communicate and she's not speaking, her voice is naturally like, you know, or a macaw whose voice can literally get to the pit of your soul. And some cockatoos too, by the way, they have many more forms of communication. Preferably they like to kind of just speak. I'm not saying every African Gray will speak and you have to love them no matter what and you should never get a bird for their speaking abilities. But what I'm saying is that I actually lived in an apartment with my African Gray and the neighbors never really heard anything because if there was something to hear it would sound totally natural like something outside, you know, but these birds have been known to do babies crying and people screaming. So if you do have a particularly loud house, they will imitate it and you have to be careful with that. But in my house, if his voice is kind of like beeping and talking and coughing, it's just it's entertaining to me and it never gets old. So I enjoy that. That's like one of my favorite reasons. And the fourth reason that I love African Grays is they have a certain amount of independence that you're going to hear me talk about over and over again. I'm not saying that they don't want to be with you, but like how some cockatoos like want to be head scratched and they're known for being Velcro birds. African Grays are not as much as bird lovers usually want a bird that they can cuddle. You have to rethink that because if you are able to make a bird too dependent on you, it's not going to be good for you and it's not going to be good for the bird. For me, just having a bird that doesn't mind sitting next to me, but doesn't have to be on me and in me and all over me. It's just more of my style. Some people need to have cockatoos that are very involved in what they do here. Whereas I prefer birds to be more involved like here. You know what I mean? Like if he's kind of new, so he doesn't know how to like sit on different things, but let's say, you know, I put Merlin right there and I could get through work with Merlin just kind of chilling there if he's entertained or being on a play stand. Whereas Jersey will go through many a moment where she's not going to be satisfied if she doesn't get some serious cockatoo love, right? But I mean, of course, it's endearing. It's like the most wonderful thing in the world as well. It's just different.  So that's just something that I appreciate. So that's just something that I love that aligns with my personality, but there's no right way. That's just what I like. And the fifth reason why I love African Greys is because I feel like they have a higher level of emotional stability. So for example, if you guys research and read up about breads, you'll discover that it's widely known that they have the human intelligence of a five year old, especially African Greys, but they have the emotional intelligence of maybe a two or three year old. That can be really difficult.  African Greys, I feel like if you have a good bond with them, they understand you so much because they're analyzing your behavior. I just feel like with an African Grey, let's say you've learned to communicate with your bird and to get across to your bird what you're trying to convey. Then I feel like they understand it in a way that they can be a little more emotionally stable. Now I know that sounds kind of weird because here we have an African Grey that is a plucker that obviously succumbed to emotional instability. And actually it's very common with African Greys. So I mean there is that, but remember there's also a lack of education on human beings part on how to communicate with these animals. And I feel like if you do have that with your bird and you do have that capability and ability, then an African Grey bond is one where you can make them a little more self-reliant and understanding. I hope you guys understand what I'm saying. What I'm saying is with the wrong kind of communication, they will absolutely be one of the first birds to succumb to this kind of behavior and depression. And that doesn't necessarily mean that there was something wrong with a previous owner. It just means that there were a lot of changes and things going on that, you know, we can't make the perfect environment for birds because they really shouldn't be in our homes as you guys know. So we're just trying to improve the crisis that we do have, but if you do have a great communication and understanding with your African Grey, because they've analyzed your behavior, they will be more comfortable with what's about to happen next, which is why I go through all my time for techniques and such with African Greys. I know that sounds a little bit complicated and maybe we could get more into that into more detail on another video, but basically I feel like with the right communication, they're one of the most emotionally stable birds that you can have. So those are my five reasons and they're my personal five reasons why I love African Greys. You may have completely different reasons and some of these reasons may not apply to your bird at all. You may have a totally different bird. Honestly, Merlin's my fourth African Grey and they've all been really different, but the reasons that I've explained to you, I can find like a through line with all of the African Greys that we have had in our life and I just love Merlin. I'm very happy that he's part of the family and I think that both George and I love African Greys because I could see that George has a soft spot for Greys and so do I. It's just something that like some kinds of birds and animals just touch your heart and for us, I believe that it's absolutely African Greys. These guys get away with a lot more than our other bird's dill. Merlin's a very good bird. And for those of you new to the channel, if you want to know how Merlin came to me, the whole story is documented. There is a playlist on Merlin. I urge you to watch it. I like to create kind of like series on my channel.  Don't forget to subscribe if you made it this far.  Remember engaged, not caged. 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