Speaking skills

Improving Speaking

By: Alona C. Crisanto

Activity

Divide the group by school

Answers will be collected after few minutes

Improve Speaking Skills

Effective communication helps us better understand a person or situation, enables us

to resolve differences, build trust and respect, and create environments where creative ideas, problem solving, affection,

and caring can flourish. As simple as communication seems, much of what we try

to communicate–and others try to communicate to us–gets misunderstood,

which can cause conflict and frustration in personal and professional relationships. By

learning these effective communication skills, you can better connect with your spouse, kids, friends, and coworkers.

The Teacher

Improving speaking skills begins with fostering student motivation and effective teaching

Improving the speaking skills of your students may be difficult, but the added benefit is building confidence in students for speaking skills and strategies.

Teaching Activity Using Speaking

Activities

• Use picture prompts. Depending on the variety of visual resources and class level and ability, a teacher can brainstorm with the class a variety of sentences, (key) words, and phrases around a particular category or situational context that is the building block for a presentation.

Follow-up with a memory game or exercise. Students then work in pairs writing down or translating the words they remember.

Another teaching activity involves asking questions or presenting statements that are not true about themselves, and then asking their friends to decide whether they are true or false. Students have a lot of fun with this one.

Tips for Public Speaking

Feeling some nervousness before giving a speech is natural and even

beneficial, but too much nervousness can be detrimental. Here are

some

Know your material

1Know the audience

. Use humor

Practice. Practice. Practice

Know the audience

Relax

Visualize yourself giving your speech

Realize that people want you to succeed

Don’t apologize for any nervousness or problem – the

audience probably never noticed it.

Concentrate on the message – Concentrate on the message – not the medium. Focus your not the medium. Focus your

attention away from your own attention away from your own anxieties and concentrate on anxieties and concentrate on

your message and your your message and your audience.audience.

Gain experience. Mainly, Gain experience. Mainly, your speech should your speech should represent you — as an represent you — as an authority and as a person. authority and as a person. Experience builds Experience builds confidence, which is the confidence, which is the key to effective speaking. key to effective speaking.