Public Speaking

(1) Public speaking is the process of speaking to a group of people in a structured, deliberate manner intended to inform, influence, or entertain the listeners.

(2) In public speaking, as in any form of communication, there are five basic elements, often expressed as “who is saying what to whom using what medium with what effects?” (3) The purpose of public speaking can range from simply transmitting information, to motivating people to act, to simply telling a story. Good orators should be able to change the emotions of their listeners, not just inform them. Public speaking can also be considered a discourse community

(4) Interpersonal communication and public speaking have several components that embrace such things as motivational speaking, leadership/personal development, business, customer service, large group communication, and mass communication. Public speaking can be a powerful tool to use for purposes such as motivation, influence, persuasion, informing, translation, or simply ethos.

(5) In current times, public speaking for business and commercial events is often done by professionals, with speakers contracted either independently, through representation by a speakers bureau paid on commission of 25-30%,^] or via a new crowd sourced model such as the speakerwiki.org website.

(The text is retrieved from the Internet at http://en.wikipedia.org>wiki/public_speaking

as of 12 April 2012 and modified as compared with the origin)

3. According to the plan you’ve made give a brief summary on the text (not more than five sentences for six minutes).

Step 1 (Listening- Writing- Speaking)

1. While watching the video piece “Speaking Tips – Stop Worrying and Start Presenting” make notes of speaker’s recommendations to follow for successful public speaking. On the basis of notes you’ve written down make up the list of tips according to priorities you consider to be the most important, important, less important. Give the reasons explaining your choice. Discuss these lists in groups of two-three students (you have five minutes for discussion).

After the group discussion, one student from each of the group will be requested to make a short presentation of speaking tips (not more that three minutes for every presentation; not more that 12 minutes for all the presentations).

2. Watch the video the second time for checking and adding up the information you haven’t managed to catch in the course of first listening.

Step 2 (Listening- Writing- Speaking)

1. Watch another video piece “Make a Presentation like Steve Jobs” and make up the structure of Steve Jobs presentation. Pay attention what makes them special.

2. Role-play: Using your note-making of previous activity dramatize in pairs asking questions a speaker may face while speaking and giving recommendations how to cope them:

Student A is going to present some topic for discussion with audience without having any experience in it and asking his/her friend who has already got some experience

Student B answers the questions of Student A and gives recommendations and tips on how to cope with these problems (you have ten minutes for this activity).