1. Public Speaking Panther Prep (Public Speaking) North Central High School

2. Introduction • Purpose and direction of presentation • Organization of thoughts and words • Effective delivery skills and techniques • Practice with different types of speeches: • Informative • Persuasive • Demonstrative • Special Occasion • Group Debate

3. Getting Started • Why learn to speak in public? • Success in the school/workplace can be tied to a person’s ability to effectively communicate. • Some opportunities are unavailable to people because the opportunity includes a public speaking component. • Ability to address one’s peers allows for the ability to express one’s opinions and concerns. Make a contribution.

4. The Communicative Act • There are 5 steps in the communication process: • Speaker wishes to communicate an idea • Speaker encodes the idea into a message • Message is sent through a channel to a audience • Audience receives and decodes message • Audience responds to the message.

5. Breakdown • “What we have here is a failure to communicate” - Cool Hand Luke • A breakdown in communication can usually be tracked down to a missed, altered, or ineffective step in the act of communication. • The speaker, message, channel, and audience are all responsible for the act of communication.

6. Reasons for Fear • People are often afraid to speak in public because: • Lack of information • Lack of confidence • Nervousness • Embarrassment • Fear of making a mistake • Looking “stupid” • Sounding “stupid”

7. Confidence • The key to overcoming the fear of public speaking is fostering confidence. • Eye contact with the audience, facial expression, body movement, personal appearance and strength of voice all convey confidence externally. • Knowledge of the subject and proper preparation and mental state breed confidence internally.

8. Preparation • Preparation is the key to success in a public speaking environment. • Preparing a speech includes determining a purpose of a speech, analyzing the intended audience, gathering information, organizing information and delivery. • Delivery includes not only what is said but how it is said.

9. Step-by-Step • The steps of preparing a speech are: • Identify purpose or need for speech • Identify/analyze perspective audience • Gather information (research) • Organize information (outline) • Rehearse delivery (edit) • Energize (counter nervousness) • Deliver

10. Self-Introduction PREPARATION: Take 5 min. to write down some notes that you want to include about yourself. DELIVERY: You will have 2 min. to deliver the speech. (NO SCRIPTS) Be sure to include all of the following in your speech: Name Location (Home) Family Info Work & Hobbies Purpose for Attending Ultimate Goal & Plan Nickname or Anecdote Impromptu Speech 1

11. Impromptu Speech Self-Introduction