We then asked 162 evaluators to watch one video, listen to one audio pitch, or read a transcript (
with filler words like «um» removed).
Not exact matches
Whether it's a speech or a one - on - one meeting, it's normal to feel uncomfortable
with silence between our
words, therefore using
filler words to keep the conversation flowing.
Cohen, who believes there is no place for disfluency in our everyday language, finds
filler words «impede our ability to speak
with power» and «become interrupters that detract from our message.»
In other
words, you might think you're getting 30 grams of high quality, complete whey protein in every scoop, when in reality you're only getting 15 grams along
with a bunch of nearly worthless
filler.
Simply change the top
word into the bottom one by altering one letter at a time (so creating three new
words to fit in the empty «rungs») Supplied on power point (1 ladder per slide) and in a
word document (
with answers separately) Ideal for use in tutor time or as a starter / time
filler.
Simply change the top
word into the bottom one by altering one letter at a time (so creating three new
words to fit in the empty «rungs») Supplied on power point (1 ladder per slide) and in a
word document (
with answers separately) Ideal for use in tutor time or as a starter / time -
filler.
Worksheets Behaviour tasks, Speaking activities Problem solving Estimating distance and counting task Addition game, Running and balancing game Handwriting activity Wrapped up presents game Christmas number pyramid 3D shape nets for cube, cuboid, prism, pyramid, in Christmas colours for children to make and display Make your own bookmarks templates Winter sports research task Christmas board game
with board and cards Shapes task Memory games Christmas
words mat 22 bingo boards
with Christmas pictures 24 picture
word fans 40 Christmas adjectives on word fans 100 large words for display (half A4 each — landscape) Alphabet flashcards on Santa hats 25 A4 cards with sight words on 25 A5 flashcards of Christmas story settings and characters Stocking fillers game --(oranges needed to move and sort) Christmas pairs game — matching cards Christmas words pair matching game Word matching cards of Nativity related words Over 200 Christmas images in high resolution — can be photocopied larger 1 minute timer — Christmas theme, great for timing t
word fans 40 Christmas adjectives on
word fans 100 large words for display (half A4 each — landscape) Alphabet flashcards on Santa hats 25 A4 cards with sight words on 25 A5 flashcards of Christmas story settings and characters Stocking fillers game --(oranges needed to move and sort) Christmas pairs game — matching cards Christmas words pair matching game Word matching cards of Nativity related words Over 200 Christmas images in high resolution — can be photocopied larger 1 minute timer — Christmas theme, great for timing t
word fans 100 large
words for display (half A4 each — landscape) Alphabet flashcards on Santa hats 25 A4 cards
with sight
words on 25 A5 flashcards of Christmas story settings and characters Stocking
fillers game --(oranges needed to move and sort) Christmas pairs game — matching cards Christmas
words pair matching game
Word matching cards of Nativity related words Over 200 Christmas images in high resolution — can be photocopied larger 1 minute timer — Christmas theme, great for timing t
Word matching cards of Nativity related
words Over 200 Christmas images in high resolution — can be photocopied larger 1 minute timer — Christmas theme, great for timing tasks
but it's pretty good at catching mechanical things, like repeating phrases, excessive adverbs,
filler words,... Take its recommendations
with a grain of salt, but it could be very helpful in cleaning up copy before a human editor gets to see it, so (s) he can focus on the meat and potatoes rather than on petty annoyances.
The approach they recommend — completely deleting sensitive information in the original
word processing document, replacing it
with innocuous
filler (such as strings of XXes) as needed, and then converting it to a PDF document, is the safest approach.
This fast tip demonstrates a built - in feature
with MS
Word that will insert sample (
filler) text that can be used to assist
with a training session or...
Even after a delay of up to fifty - five minutes, listeners were better able to remember
words preceded by a verbal
filler.86 Jean E. Fox Tree, a professor of psychology at the University of California, Santa Cruz, obtained similar results
with uh, which helped listeners recognize
words in upcoming speech.87 Fox Tree asked listeners to press a buzzer when they heard a specific «target»
word, which they had committed to memory.
Study subjects asked to «talk» their way through mazes used more verbal
fillers when confronted
with mazes that could be navigated using multiple routes.33 Conversely, mazes
with a single path (and fewer choices) produced fewer
fillers.34 But the maze study produced another interesting result: When study subjects were told they could use only four
words to talk their way through the maze (left, right, up, down), they began to use more verbal
fillers, even when describing simple mazes.35 Researchers posited that the «lexical suppression» created by limiting speakers to four
words triggered a stopping and starting of the speech apparatus that prevented speakers from developing a normal speech rhythm.36 Thus, while verbal
fillers are a mark of task complexity, they also appear where, «for some other reason, the flow of speech is disrupted.»
Virtually everyone uses verbal
fillers, though the frequency can vary greatly from person to person.18 A study of one language database showed that speakers produced between 1.2 and 88.5 uhs and ums for every thousand
words,
with a median
filler rate of 17.3 per thousand
words.19 Other databases show anywhere from three to twenty uhs and ums for every thousand
words, placing uh and um thirty - first in a ranking of most commonly used utterances, just ahead of or and just after not.20 A British study showed that, contrary to popular expectations, the use of verbal
fillers does not indicate a lack of education or manners; instead, the use of uh and um increases
with education and socioeconomic status, a finding
with particular implications for the legal profession.21 Older people use more uhs and ums than younger people, and, curiously, men consistently use verbal
fillers more often than women — a finding that has been replicated across several studies.22 Women, for their part, appear to use a higher ratio of ums to uhs than their male counterparts.23
Individuals completing the disclosure writing used more negative emotion, insight, cognitive, function, and
filler words along
with decrease of tentative
words.