The words to use
- Beat
- One idea you want the examiner to leave with, stored as a short noun phrase such as "hands you cannot rush". Three beats hold a whole answer.
- Controlled spontaneity
- Fixed content, fresh wording. You know which three things you will say, but you build the sentences live each time.
- Re-entry
- Rejoining your own answer after an interruption by saying where you are going, instead of restarting from the beginning.
- Second layer
- What sits beneath a story: what you found hard, what surprised you and what you would do differently. Follow-up questions go straight to it.
