Public Speaking Skills
PUBLIC SPEAKING SKILLS
Lesson 3: Public Speaking Skills (Page15)
This is an essential part of leadership because leaders must use public speaking skills to inspire people to follow them. Public speaking is everybody’s greatest fear, so it is important to make the speaking experience enjoyable for your students.
The leadership course consists of four short speeches to help your students: * Practice the different skills of public speaking such as: eye contact, using gestures, movement, and vocal variety, using pauses, and using visual aids. * Learn how to create a speech that keeps an audience’s attention by using examples, stories, and quotes. * Learn to close their speech with a call for action. * Learn how to write an effective introduction and how to give an introduction. * Practice listening skills as they evaluate each other’s speeches.
Spread Out the Speeches
These four different types of speeches in Lesson 3 should be spread out throughout your course. (Speeches #2 & 3 should be done after you have done lesson 4 because exercises in lesson 4 will prepare your students for those speeches.) The last of the four speeches is their graduation speech about an admired leader, which will be done on the last day of class.
Introductions
Each of the speeches will begin with an introduction by another student. The student giving the speech will write the introduction, which the student doing the introduction will read word for word. This gives the speaker control of the introduction and avoids misrepresentation.
Speak Instead of Read
During their speeches, the students are not allowed to read their speeches. They may each have an index card with a few key words jotted down. These speeches have to be spoken, not read or memorized. That way they will speak with more enthusiasm, more meaning in their words, and use their eyes for eye contact with the audience instead of looking down at a paper reading words.
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Lesson 3: Public Speaking Skills (Page15)
This is an essential part of leadership because leaders must use public speaking skills to inspire people to follow them. Public speaking is everybody’s greatest fear, so it is important to make the speaking experience enjoyable for your students.
The leadership course consists of four short speeches to help your students: * Practice the different skills of public speaking such as: eye contact, using gestures, movement, and vocal variety, using pauses, and using visual aids. * Learn how to create a speech that keeps an audience’s attention by using examples, stories, and quotes. * Learn to close their speech with a call for action. * Learn how to write an effective introduction and how to give an introduction. * Practice listening skills as they evaluate each other’s speeches.
Spread Out the Speeches
These four different types of speeches in Lesson 3 should be spread out throughout your course. (Speeches #2 & 3 should be done after you have done lesson 4 because exercises in lesson 4 will prepare your students for those speeches.) The last of the four speeches is their graduation speech about an admired leader, which will be done on the last day of class.
Introductions
Each of the speeches will begin with an introduction by another student. The student giving the speech will write the introduction, which the student doing the introduction will read word for word. This gives the speaker control of the introduction and avoids misrepresentation.
Speak Instead of Read
During their speeches, the students are not allowed to read their speeches. They may each have an index card with a few key words jotted down. These speeches have to be spoken, not read or memorized. That way they will speak with more enthusiasm, more meaning in their words, and use their eyes for eye contact with the audience instead of looking down at a paper reading words.
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