Mastering Public Speaking: Key Concepts and Techniques for Effective Communication
This resource aims to build your foundational knowledge in public speaking. It covers various speech purposes, including persuasion, information sharing, entertainment, and celebration. Understand essential terminology such as speaker, message, audience, and feedback. Explore vocalization elements like volume, pitch, pauses, pronunciation, and articulation. Learn about different listening types and critical thinking associated with public speaking. Engage with class activities and watch speeches to identify their purposes. Homework includes posting an appropriate video clip of a speech, along with a brief explanation.
Mastering Public Speaking: Key Concepts and Techniques for Effective Communication
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Public speaking 2012-2013
Building Background Knowledge • Speeches are given to: • Persuade • Inform • Entertain • Celebrate • Can you think of some people who speak in such a way? • *Class discussion*
See if you can identify Some of these key public speaking terms • General Terms • Speaker • Message • Audience • Feedback • Situation • Terms about Vocalization • Volume • Pitch • Pauses • Pronunciation • Articulation
General terms • Speaker - speech communication starts here • Message - whatever is communicated • Audience – person or group of people the speaker presents • Feedback – comes in many forms and must be understood • Situation – the time and place of occurrence
Vocalization • Volume – loudness or softness • adjust to the situation (electronically if necessary, don’t yell) • Pitch – highness or lowness of the voice • use inflections in your voice to avoid “monotone” • Pauses – momentary breaks in your speaking • takes experience to know when to pause, pause at the end of thought units • avoid vocalized pauses (“uh”, “er”, “um”...) • Pronunciation – use correct pronunciation of common words • genuine, arctic, theater, err, nuclear, February, library • Articulation – physical production of speech sounds • we habitually chop, slur and mumble, rather than enunciating • “ought to”, “didn’t”, “for”, “don’t know”, “ask”
Listening and Critical Thinking • There are four types of listening: • Appreciative • Listening for pleasure or enjoyment • Music, movies, comedy, plays… • Empathetic • Listening to provide emotional support for speaker • A psychologist listens to a patient; you listen to a friend’s rant • Comprehensive • Listening to understand the speakers message • Direction to a friend’s house; in a class or seminar • Critical • Listening to evaluate a message • A campaign speech; a peer’s research paper • Critical Thinking • Comprehensive and Critical Thinking require you to think and evaluate while listening, this helps develop Critical Thinking skills
Meanings of Words • Words have two kinds of meanings: • denotative • the literal or dictionary meaning of a word or phrase. • connotative • the meaning suggested by the associations or emotions triggered by a word or phrase • give words their intensity and emotional power • the same words may have completely different effects on different audiences
Class activity • What are the purposes of the following speeches? • We are going to watch various youtube clips and then discuss the purpose of each speech. • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CskduIgUSHk- Pres.Obama • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TSPtk6qJXQo&feature=relmfu- Pres. Obama • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jKqs7j3iRxo&feature=related- Man vs. Food • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0zVPZBykSE- Bike Rider
Social acceptance What does it mean? Who do we give it to? Who deserves it? How does it relate to public speaking?
Homework • For homework tonight, you must post ONE video to my website, under Blog Assignment # 1. The video must be a shore, SCHOOL APPROPRIATE CLIP, one of the following speeches: • Informative • Persuasive • Entertaining • Celebratory • Under the clip, you must explain in 1 or 2 sentences, what the speech is about and what type of speech it is. • QUESTIONS??
