into it. That doesn't mean you're going to skimp on the content though, this is the bloody HSC after all! Do not, I repeat DO NOT look only at the marker. It is ridiculous and your audience as a whole will quickly lose interest. Try to scan the room and make eye contact with everyone. Markers will look for this. Don't exaggerate on the hand motions. And the obvious one: voice projection. Starting off with a rhetorical question is going to be fine, perhaps excellent depending on how your thesis goes. One tip that I will suggest to you is to get a camera and record yourself whilst practising delivery. Look for any bad habits such as shifting from one foot to another, putting "uhm"s in, etc. Lol, this didn't work well for me at my school. I had perfect eye contact, looked at basically everyone in the room and constantly changed the tone of my voice. My speech was practically memorised and i glanced at my palm cards probs 2-3 times in the whole entire speech. However, as always... i'm terrible at english and my content wasn't that great (at the time i thought it was good/ok) and i scored an 8/15 - this occurred for both my year 11 and year 12 speech for english. I had a few rhetorical questions and even had a few lines which made the audience and markers laugh, but they were relevant to the topic. In comparison, other kids who spoke in