speaking and reading skills
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Speaking skill
Speaking skillsSpeaking skills can be divided into several
categories and include items like posture, body language, and grammar. Speaking skills can be learned and often begin with a public speaking or debate class that is taken in school. Speaking skills also include determining an interesting subject for a speech and creating an order that allows the speech to flow from the speaker. Speaking skills
ImportanceAbility to inform, persuade, and direct.Ability to stand out from the rest. Career enhancement
Speaking
The four language skills of listening, speaking, reading, and writing are all interconnected. Proficiency in each skill is necessary to become a well-rounded communicator, but the ability to speak skillfully provides the speaker with several distinct advantages. The capacity to put words together in a meaningful way to reflect thoughts, opinions, and feelings provides the speaker with these important advantages:
Occasions for formal oral Communication
Public Speech
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Fear of Public Speaking
In Spotlight
Unprepared
Inexperienced
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What is Public Speech
Public speaking skill may be defined as the art of appearing in front of an audience, facing the audience, presenting your speech and making them understand what you want them to understand within the limited time and resources given to you.
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Public Speaking TipsDo your Homework or research a topic
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Public Speaking TipsOrganize ideas logically
Employ quotations, facts and statistics
Start strong and close stronger
Incorporate humor
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Public Speaking TipsAnalyze your audience- deliver the message
they want to hear
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Public Speaking TipsEye contact
Interact with audience
Occasions for formal oral CommunicationPublic Speaking TipsTime Management
Do not repeat yourself
Show positive attitude
Seek and utilize feedback
Handle unexpected issues smoothlyex. Power cut, projector is not working
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Public Speaking (Things you shouldn’t do)
Reading directly from notes
Turn back on audience
Hands in pockets
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Public Speaking (Things you shouldn’t do)
No um, ah, you know
No nervous gestures
Talking too fast or talking too quietly
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Public Speaking (Things you should do)
Eye Contact
Can glance at notes
Appropriate gestures
Rhetorical questions to involve audience
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Presentation
Your top fears
Speaking to a group
Heights
Insects & Bugs
Financial Problems
Deep Water
Sickness Death
Flying
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15%
10%
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General pointers to improve speaking skills:SPEAK
Be thoroughly aware of the subject.
Know the audience; tailor your speech to meet their needs.
Reading skillsReading" is the process of looking at a series of written
symbols and getting meaning from them. When we read, we use our eyes to receive written symbols (letters, punctuation marks and spaces) and we use our brain to convert them into words, sentences and paragraphs that communicate something to us.
Reading can be silent (in our head) or aloud (so that other people can hear).
Reading is a receptive skill - through it we receive information. But the complex process of reading also requires the skill of speaking, so that we can pronounce the words that we read. In this sense, reading is also a productive skill in that we are both receiving information and transmitting it (even if only to ourselves).