I have to give a speech and I'm so scared...help!!!?

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So in English class tomorrow I have to give an improv speech. I will have to pull two topics from a bag and pick one of them to talk to the class about. The speech has to be under 1 minute and a half. Two people went so far and there were topics like YouTube and duck dynasty. I have no idea what my topic is going to be and I'm scared I'm not going to know what to say and everyone will laugh at me. I'm so scared right now that I feel like I'm going to throw up and I want to cry. What makes it worse is that I'm not friends with ANY one in the class. There is one girl I talk to occasionally but not very much. I've been thinking about every thing that could go wrong during my speech. There is absolutely no way to get out of this. It also dosent help I've literally never said anything in this class all year. Please help me and give me advise...I'm freaking out. Thanks soo much!!:)

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its seems youre focusing on the fear way to much

consider that everyone is in the same boat as you

every person who may laugh at you is about to have to give the same presentation during the course of this

naturally with improv theres no way to prepare beyond calming yourself

chill, enjoy it

you might even find you enjoy the moment

and for gods sake .. do not start apologising if you feel youve run off track .. youve nothing to apologise for

just resume where you think it should be going

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Tell you what I did. I hated that too, but what I did was I got someone to buy me a few cans of beer, and I took it to school. I started to drink before my speech, and when I went up, I didn't feel nervous one bit, AND I did great. If I had not drunken those beers, I would have pissed my pants.

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I have to give a speech and I'm so scared...help!!!?

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