First Formal Assessment

The most important part of a speech or presentation is that the audience

• the attention getter (also known as attention grabber)

• understands the speaker

• remembers the key terms that you use

• the amount of jargon and other specialised vocabulary that speakers employ

Developing public speaking skills helps your professional, public and _______________ life.

In terms of analogies or metaphors, the Linear Model of Communication is like a _____________

• Democracy

• Dictatorship

• Constitutional Monarchy

• Sociocracy

Both the Interactive and Transactional Models of Communication speak to an ongoing _____________ process as opposed to being linear.

In this process, a person hears or reads words and then turns them into mental images.

• Decoding

• Precoding

• Recoding

• Coding

In this process, a person takes a mental image and then links it to words that they write or speak:

Filled Pauses or Fillers are words such as "uh", "like", "um" or _____________, to name but some.

With regard to a speaker's delivery of information, context determines an audience's understanding of said information.

• At times

• Sometime

• False

• True

Informative Speeches are ______________.

• take sides

• do not take sides

• are biased

• sway

This type of Speech offers: Who, What, When, Where, Why and How with no opinion.