What is a intern speech and how is it told ?

Did you skip class? Why would other students know it if you don’t? Try asking the teacher again (kindly, wait if she is busy with another class and approach her when she is calm) if that fails ask the teachers superior that you can’t communicate with the teacher.

@Jwtd I’m totally not like that,I don’t skip class like some of my other classmates do(even she gives them a different attitude and reminder than she ever does with me and some of them are even rude).I’m kind to this teacher all the time and still get the same results.I’d probably have to ask some other teacher.But do you know anything about an intern speech or is there no such thing because this teacher said it so very low pitch.I really don’t how she was trying to pronounce it.

Google says there’s no such thing (Google never lies…). So you probably misheard.
Either continue to ask her, or talk to her superior.

ETA: What was the class and what was the subject? Maybe we can help you figure it out with some context clues?

Could it be an informative speech?

Or possibly an extemporaneous speech, but that seems too long for what you heard.

Sorry I haven’t taken that class so I don’t know. It doesn’t sound very relevant in the real world if by intern it means a person who shadows a professional job.

I still think you should clear it up with your teacher. You usually have to pay for education so it’s their job not to ignore you.

Are you sure that you didn’t just mis-hear “in turn”?

@papayalily It’s a Public Speaking class,but she only said we had to do an (the topic she said very low and didn’t want to repeat) was “intern” or I guess something like that,she didn’t even explain how to do it.I will just research in my folders and papers to see if there’s any past notes that might have had an informative description about this.

@ladyv900 Maybe ask her again, explaining how you have this chronic sinus issue that blocks your ear passages, so your hearing isn’t really up to snuff?

You could point out the delicious irony of the teacher in a ‘public speaking’ class mumbling an incomprehensible assignment. Be careful how you do that, though. There’s ‘ironic’ and there’s ‘goddamn snarky’, and I usually err on the side of the latter when I try to recognize and verbalize the former.

But I keep on trying.

I agree with @wundayatta, maybe it is an informative speech; i.e. a speech that tells you how to do something. That is a very common type of Speech class assignment. Any clues from the rest of the assignment? Perhaps if you don’t have to go on the first day, you will be able to hear what the others are doing.

Do you have a syllabus for the class? It should be on there.

@BarnacleBill Thanks totally,Iooked through my papers and found my syllabus, it was really called “Impromptu”.

LOL. Well, then, you can talk about Q&A sites can help you solve problems, large and small!

Damn it! I was looking for that word, but it wouldn’t come out of my head. I went to a thesaurus, but the closest I came was what I wrote up above: extemporaneous speech.

In high school, I took a speech class and we were given a topic and we had three minutes to prepare and then we gave a five minute impromptu speech. My topic was “why is the sky blue.” By the end of my speech, I had the teacher convinced I was color blind!

@wundayatta Because it was really bad, or because it was really good? I know nothing about why the sky is blue, so…

@papayalily I think it had to be good to convince her (by implication) that I was color blind. I mean, I was apparently really believable.

My main concept was that, if you were color blind, you wouldn’t know the sky was blue. I only meant it as a hypothetical. She took it to mean I was speaking from my own experience. She pulled me aside after class to ask, “are you really color blind?” Since it had not been my intention to imply that, I was flummoxed when she asked.

The kicker is that I actually knew why the sky is blue, but I decided not to go that route because I didn’t think it would be very interesting. Sigh. If I had known about improv back then, who knows where I would be now?

Well, I can dream, can’t I?

However, with respect to the topic, by definition, there is no way to prepare for an impromptu speech. You have no idea what will come out of the hat. I suppose you could practice with a friend, pulling random topics (maybe from fluther?) and thinking a few minutes and then speaking for five.