Week 4: Organization & Tools for Success

Week 4- Spring 2018 English Department

Abdelmalek Essaadi University

Agenda for Today● Logistics - Presentation Dates & Rubrics● Power Posing ● Organizing Your Speech● Feedback● Drills to Improve Your Public Speaking● Impromptu Speaking [Practice]

A Note before we begin...● Please ensure your APOGEE NUMBER is correct every time you use it. ● Use the spelling of your name that is registered with the English

Department.● Maintain a CONSISTENT spelling of your name in latin letters across all

assignments.

Presentation Dates

Pull up calendar of class presentations and ensure everyone is happy with the date, group, and topic they have

RubricPull up the rubric, analyze together as a class, and understand how you will be

evaluated.

Power Posing

Watch a video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmR2A9TnIso

DISCUSSION: Power Posing ● What does “Fake It Till You

Make It” mean?● What does Amy Cuddy say

about primates behavior?● How do power poses influence

humans scientifically speaking?

● What are the different applications of power poses?

YOUR TURN TO POWER POSE!

How to Organize Your Presentation

Organizing your informative speech

● Spatial ● Chronological

(Temporal)● Causal● Comparison● Categorical

(Topical)

Organizing your informative speech

● Spatial ● Chronological

(Temporal)● Causal● Comparison● Categorical

(Topical)

Organizing your informative speech

● Spatial ● Chronological

(Temporal)● Causal● Comparison● Categorical

(Topical)

Organizing your informative speech

● Spatial ● Chronological

(Temporal)● Causal● Comparison● Categorical

(Topical)

Organizing your informative speech

● Spatial ● Chronological

(Temporal)● Causal● Comparison● Categorical

(Topical)

Which organizational

structure is your group using?

Let’s hear some examples

Presentation Guidelines for Success

Repeat - audience only listen 25-50% of the time

Move from General to Specific

Reduce quantity of information you present

Presentation Guidelines for Success

Make Complex information seem familiar- avoid jargon!

Use Presentation Aids Wisely

Reiteration & Repetition

GAME TIME!

Practicing Impromptu Speaking

INDEX CARD IMPROMPTU SPEAKING● On an index card, write down the

following: one noun on each side of the card.

● Collect all index cards and lay them out on a table up front.

● One by one, students will pick up two cards, choosing one noun from each card. They will then speak for 1 minute about that topic. ○ Example: (1) joker, (2) hospitality

Tips for Impromptu Speaking1. What is the question? 2. What is my answer or

view?3. How do I support my

position?

FEEDBACK

What is “good” feedback?As a speaker, what do you want to hear from

your audience after your present?

Practice:

HOW CAN I IMPROVE MY PUBLIC SPEAKING AT HOME?

Public Speaking Drills ● Vocal Warm-Ups: sirens & whale-yawning (tone)● Pen Drills (articulation/rate)● Tongue Twisters (articulation/pronunciation)● Mood Switching for the same passage (tone)● Breathing/Diaphragm Exercises (projection)● Filming yourself & self-critiquing (all non-verbal)

Vocal Warm Ups: Sirens & Whale-Yawning (Tone)● PROJECTING- “booming”

your voice across a forum to reach all audience member.

● HOW? Exhale air from your lungs to carry the sound across the room. It’s all about breathing!

● Use your DIAPHRAGM!

Pen DrillsWhat is the difference between articulation and pronunciation?

Pen Drill Passage“When the sunlight strikes raindrops in the air, they act as a prism and form a rainbow. The rainbow is a division of white light into many beautiful colors. These take the shape of a long round arch, with its path high above, and its two ends apparently beyond the horizon.”

From Fairbanks, G. (1960). Voice and articulation drillbook, 2nd edn. New York: Harper & Row. pp124-139.

Tongue TwistersBetty Botter had some butter, “But,” she said, “this butter's bitter. If I put it in my batter, it will make my batter better.

SOOOOOOOOOOOOO

She put it in her batter, but it made her batter bitter.

Mood Switching Passage

“The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars.” – Jack Kerouac, On The Road

Homework:

Start preparing your presentation