Notes

2. Speaking skills
 Speaking 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

3. Importance
 Ability to inform, persuade, and direct.
 Ability to stand out from the rest.
 Career enhancement

4. 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:

5. Occasions for formal oral Communication
 Public Speech

6. Occasions for formal oral Communication
Fear of Public Speaking
 In Spotlight
 Unprepared
 Inexperienced

7. Occasions for formal oral Communication
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.

8. Occasions for formal oral Communication
Public Speaking Tips
 Do your Homework or research a topic

9. Occasions for formal oral Communication
Public Speaking Tips
 Organize ideas logically
 Employ quotations, facts and statistics
 Start strong and close stronger
 Incorporate humor

10. Occasions for formal oral Communication
Public Speaking Tips
 Analyze your audience- deliver the message they want
to hear

11. Occasions for formal oral Communication
Public Speaking Tips
 Eye contact
 Interact with audience

12. Occasions for formal oral Communication
Public Speaking Tips
 Time Management
 Do not repeat yourself
 Show positive attitude
 Seek and utilize feedback
 Handle unexpected issues smoothly
ex. Power cut, projector is not working

13. Occasions for formal oral Communication
Public Speaking (Things you shouldn’t do)
 Reading directly from notes
 Turn back on audience
 Hands in pockets

14. Occasions for formal oral Communication
Public Speaking (Things you shouldn’t do)
 No um, ah, you know
 No nervous gestures
 Talking too fast or talking too quietly

15. Occasions for formal oral Communication
Public Speaking (Things you should do)
 Eye Contact
 Can glance at notes
 Appropriate gestures
 Rhetorical questions to involve audience

16. Occasions for formal oral Communication
 Presentation

17. Your top fears
Speaking to a group
Heights
Insects & Bugs
Financial Problems
Deep Water
Sickness Death
Flying
35%
10%
5%
15%
10%
10%
5%
10%

18. General pointers to improve speaking skills:
 SPEAK
 Be thoroughly aware of the subject.
 Know the audience; tailor your speech to meet their
needs.

19. Reading skills
 Reading" 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).