Public Speaking Course

When I come to the shop, there are always a lot of sales assistants who do their best to make me buy this or that thing. Some of them are really talented in this job and I really admire them as I find it quite difficult to sell something. Nevertheless we should improve and do something we have never done. And at this lesson my groupmates and I tried to sell some exercises to each other. All the exercises were connected to the public speaking activity. My task was "Personality Box". The main idea of this exercise is explained in the video that you can watch in this post. And now I need to analyze my speech with the help of questions for self evaluation. 1. Did you make an effort to gain the mental attention of your audience in the introduction to your speech? Yes (If telling about actors and their hands can be considered as a story) 2. Did you clearly state your topic or question? Yes (it was written on the slide) 3. Did you map the direction your speech ...

Good morning everybody! I’m so glad to see you. This summer I experienced the strongest emotions in my life. It happened in the camp when I was a counselor.   Unfortunately, these emotions were not as good as they supposed to be. Every day I made a lot of mistakes that disappointed me, so day by day I became less and less self-confident. It was a snow ball effect. And the result of this effect was that I thought that I just can’t do anything in a proper way. Now I understand what the problem was, I was not confident from the very beginning. Now I understand that confidence is really important in any work or business you start. The first reason why I think so is the meaning of confidence for me. In my opinion, confidence comes from preparation, and sometimes they are equal. Let’s imagine a situation. Our group gathers together and decides to go to the mountains. But we can’t go there without some preparations. We need to find the best place to go, choose the date...

I think many people filled in some questionnaire. This form of research helps us to learn our strong or weak sides in any activity or even in our characters. So today I filled one quastionnaire and learnt what level my oratory is. My result is 63 points. That means that in spite of some problems, I have good knowledge about oratory art that can help in preparation of the speech. Some statements made me think about them for a long. These are the statements about the preferences of my auditory. I usually perform in front of the students and their preferences are usually similar. It was difficult to answer this quastion because I can't say that I have big experince . I was not surprised about one point, I've just never thought of it. It's about the methods of activation of creative thinking. As I wrote before, quastionnaires are usually used to learn what you are good at and what you should work on. So I'm strong at the organization of the text, I don't d...

Nowadays our life is connected with the Internet a lot. More and more people prefer communicating with people in the social networks. So I think it's really necessary to follow some rules to make the communication pleasant for everyone. These are the rules that our group consider as the most useful. 1. Try to use proper punctuation, spelling and grammar to make your text understandable for readers. 2. Be active, leave comments under your groupmates' posts, say what you like/dislike.  3. No cursing and expressing offensive opinions.  4. Try not to use official language or complicated terms in your blog. It can make your blog incomprehensible for some people. 5.  Write clearly, concisely, and on the subject. 

Today we made a speech about our summer. We had only a minute and a half to tell three facts about that time and 15 minutes to prepare. It was quite a difficult thing and here are the evaluation of my speech. To tell the truth, it was much easier for me to find 3 things to improve than 3 things to praise. I will start with the things that I like. 3 things I like in my speech 1) My grammar 2) The way I improvised. I am usually at a loss in a situation of improvisation. 3) The photos in the presentation 3 things I want to improve 1) My gesticulation 2) Pronunciation and fluency 3) Design of the presentation