Speech Skills: An Unorthodox Guide to Speaking With Confidence

Speech Skills: Rhetoric. An Unorthodox Guide to Speaking With Confidence

By Thomas Bolding

TEGEC

Tone

Eye Contact

Emphasis​

Gestures​

Content​

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Tone

Change your tone according to the message of your content.​

​Example: Read the following out loud, but change the tone according to the prompt given.

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Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure.​

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Plain, no emotion​

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Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure.​

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Anger​

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Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure.​

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Sadness​

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Cover songs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_eBCxYVma1g

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Open Ended

Write a response. Compare/contrast the tone in the two clips. What emotions do they evoke?

Eye Contact

Why?

It builds trust between you and your audience

Displays confidence through body language

Shows that you simply don't care what people think

Tips: Find a friendly face, look between the eyes of audience members.​

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Gestures

​Do them...but don't overdo them.

Open hands -- inviting​, close hands -- insecure

The chop, the Trump finger -- emphasize a point

The over under -- to pick up the pace

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Content

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This structure for writing can be used pretty much everywhere! The only thing that changes for speeches is the Tail

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​INVERTED PYRAMID

​This is used for journalism...but

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Identify the 5 W's (Who, What, When, Where, Why)

​Ladies and gentlemen of Educanet, we are gathered here today in this classroom to address the following issue: the overburdening of homework for students. This has become a huge problem. Where do we go from here? What do we do? Well, I propose an awareness campaign that will boost teacher/student and parent alike!

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Identify the 5 W's (Who, What, When, Where, Why)

​(Who and Where) Ladies and gentlemen of Educanet, we are gathered here (When) today in (Where) this classroom to address the following issue: (What) the overburdening of homework for students. (Why)This has become a huge problem. Where do we go from here? What do we do? (What) Well, I propose an awareness campaign that will boost teacher/student and parent alike!

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In the Crucial Info part (the middle)...

Again, start with the most important info first...then slowly write less crucial information.

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Open Ended

TASK: Rewrite your speeches according to the Inverted Pyramid. Make sure your introduction includes the 5 Ws, your middle contains crucial information and your closing is short, and leaves the audience with a take home message.