How to make a speech in English

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How to make a speech in English

• June

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How to make a speech

• Why be a good speaker?
• What are speaking skills?
• How to organize the speech?

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Why be a good speaker?

• Not just presentation, but also persuasion
• Get peoples mindshare
• Tell people what you think and why
• The man who can think and does not know how to
  express what he thinks is at the level of him who
  cannot think.
• 
  Pericles

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What are speaking skills?

• Verbal words spoken 7
• Vocal tone, range, appeal, credibility of voice
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• Visual physical appearance, gestures, eye
  contact 55

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Verbal skills

• Be simple and clear.
• Dont ramble.
• Stop to think if you need to.
• Use simple words
• Speaking is not like writing.
• Dont use complex sentences.

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Can you understand this?

• The development of this frightful means of
  destruction was ardently demanded by the perils
  of the time and situation. Simultaneously,
  however, a new paradoxical situation has been.
  is upon us continually. One cannot defend
  oneself effectively any more.
• -- Albert Einstein

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Vocal skills

• Play your voice but dont overdo it.
• Project and resonate your voice
• No UMs and ERs (pause instead)
• Tools silence, loudness, intonation, speed)

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Have a try!

• 1. So I expect all of you to get serious this
  year.
• I expect you to put your best effort in to
  everything you do.
• I expect great things from each of you.
• So dont let us down.
• Dont let your family or your country down.
• Most of you, dont let yourself down.
• Make us all proud.
• 16min
• 
  Barack Obama

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• 2. 11.18
• http//www.24en.com/subject/speech/2012-07-26/1474
  24.html
• I have a dream that one day this nation will rise
  up and live out the true meaning of its creed
  "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that
  all men are created equal."
• I have a dream that one day on the red hills
  of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the
  sons of former slave owners will be able to sit
  down together at the table of brotherhood.

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• I have a dream that one day even the state of
  Mississippi, a state sweltering with the heat of
  injustice, sweltering with the heat of
  oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of
  freedom and justice.
• I have a dream that my four little children
  will one day live in a nation where they will not
  be judged by the color of their skin but by the
  content of their character.
• I have a dream today!
• Martin Luther King, Jr.

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Visual skills

• Eyes
• Look forward at audience.
• Dont shift eyeballs, dont look in corner.
• Body
• Stand up when talking
• Walk around

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Visual skills

• Hands
• Make gestures
• Face
• Show emotion

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Have a try!

• 3.46
• If you dont like me, I wont be here forever.
  
• If you dont like this government, it wont
  last forever.
• But if you leave the UK, that will be forever.
  
• Dont lose faith in what this country is and
  what we can be.
• Dont forget what a great United Kingdom you
  are part of.

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• Dont turn your backs on what is the best family
  of nations in the word and the best hope for your
  family in this world.
• So please, from all of us
• Vote to stick together.
• Vote to stay.
• Vote to save our United Kingdom.
• David Cameron

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How to organize the speech?

• To have a structure
• (first, second, third)
• To label the materials
• (jokes, funny anecdotes, favorite sayings,
  interesting statistics)
• To use note cards

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How to begin

• To tell a story
• To quote
• To use unusual statistics
• To ask the audience a question
• To show a video or a slide

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How to close

• To repeat your opening
• To summarize your speech
• To close with an anecdote
• To end with a call to action

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Tips for PPT

• Title page
• Introduction
• Main body
• End page

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Title page

• Title not too long
• Subtitle
• Name centered or right
• Date

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Introduction

• Tell them what you are going to say
• Not too long, less than 100 words
• Clear enough to read ( the size, the color )

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Main body

• List main points logically
• One point per slide
• In the order of importance
• Make use of pictures, videos and graphics
• Keep the words simple

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End page

• Repeat the key point
• Say thank you

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Topic for discussionThe importance of learning
English

• Opening
• Body first of all ,
• Second,
• Finally,
• Closing In conclusion.
• http//www.hxen.com/englishvideo/yanjiang/2007-11-
  21/18911.html

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Tasks

• Enjoy a speech by a Chinese
• Prepare for your speech The importance of
  English
• Show time
• Give score and select the best