Public Speaking Course

We've got a lot of knoweledge by now to know how to write a really good speech. And one of the way to check our knoweledge is to edit the text, to imrove it. Here is the text by Denis. My corrections are highlighted in red. Why you should exercise Good morning, ladies and gentlemen! I'm glad to see you here today. Do you agree with the statement "A healthy mind makes a healthy spirit"? Personally, I believe that it's true. Nowadays the healthy issues are really evident and important as less and less people are born absolutely healthy. But there is one thing that can help you. This thing is exercising. E xercis ing really helps you to get organized  and keep yourself in a healthy physically and mentally. Let’s see why it is so.   First of all, w hen you are a lazy person, it's difficult to take the first step, but it is all a matter of committing yourself to something that will provide you a lot of positive feedback. Once you start doing exer...

Sorry for my long absence. But there are so many new things in my life that I barely have time for everything. Fortunately, this gives me lots of opportunities to complete the callenges. My fifth callenge is to start a conversation with a neighbour or a student from another group whom I don't know.  There are eight of us in the group who went to Kazakhstan and I knew only one girl. Other people were unfamiliar for me. So they were both my neighbours and students from another group. We went to Karaganda by plane. That was the place I fulfilled the fifth callenge. Two girl were sitting behind me and Marina. We started a conversation about flights, other countries and practice that was waiting for us. And now we communicate with these two girls very well. We support and help each other in different situations. It was quite difficult to start the conversation because these girl are from the 4th year but I'm a third year student. I didn't know whether they want or don...

There are two things to make an effective conclusion: 1. Effective summary of the major points of the speech 2. Inspiring solution or action step. Also it's recommended to do the following things: - Decorate it with the final appeal to inspire the audience to consider the significance of the topic - Make sure the tone corresponds with the entire speech - Get back to the introduction and make so called "full circle" How to Communicate Effectively The introduction and the Body Establishing and developing effective communication is important in order to be heard and change your environment according to your own thoughts. No one will guess what you want or what you think if you don’t tell them, and nothing is going to change if you do not propose a change. The purpose of my speech is to discuss three important skills that will help you communicate effectively. Such skills are not to be afraid of speaking, express exactly what you mean to say, and listen while...

There is always the body after the introduction. Usually the body is the heart of the entire presentation as it opens the topic from all the possible points of view. And usually the body consists of three parts. In this post I will check it by making a sample outline of the speech Grit: The power of passion and perseverance by Angela Lee Duckworth. https://www.ted.com/talks/angela_lee_duckworth_grit_the_power_of_passion_and_perseverance#t-63932 THE OUTLINE Introduction 1. I wsa a Maths teacher for seventh graders A. The difference between children is not only in IQ B. Working hard and long enough can help every student to learn the material C. What we need in education is a much better education of students and learning from a motivational prospective, from a psycological perspective. Body 1. Psycological issue: who is successful here and why?  A. Research work in some educational organizations and private companies  B. Grit is a significant predictor of suc...

1. The news report and a newspaper article I took the report and article from the CNN web site. https://edition.cnn.com/videos/us/2018/11/06/amber-alert-lumberton-north-carolina-13-girl-aguilar-vpx.hln/video/playlists/top-news-videos/ The story of a girl who was abducted is suitable to show the problems, pain and experience which parents can face https://edition.cnn.com/2018/11/05/us/divorce-child-custody-tips-lisa-ling-this-is-life/index.html This article brought me a thought that before marriage and birth of children a couple should get sure in the relations. 2. This is another source - a TED Talk performed by a woman who doesn't want to have children and sterilized herself. One of the reason is a bif responsibility to a child. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_xXC37CDSw I think this post is going to be expended further when new sourses will be found.

We all get education. We are taught how to be an engineer, an actress, a doctor, a manager. But there is no educational programme on how to be a parent while it's one of the most important role we play in this life, at least it's not the least. One American actress, Mayim Bialik, said: " I came to parenting the way most of us do - knowing nothing and trying to learn everything". So what if someone taught us to be parents beforehand? Does education for parents make sense at all? I believe, yes. People should get special education before becoming parents. There are lot of reasons to persuade you and many options to make this idea come true.

Writing persuasive speech is a kind of research work. And every research starts with plan. Actually, every serious business starts with plan. And I've made the research plan consisting of 5 steps for my speech. 1st step. To find problems of parenthood in such books as A Book for Parents by A.Makarenko. 2nd step. To ask relatives, friends, groupmates about their parents and childhood. 3d step. To watch a news report or to read a newspaper article connected with the problem. 4th step. To use a creative thinking method to get some new ideas. 5th step.  To make a list of possible problems parents can face and descride the ways of preventing and solving them.

We go on preparing for our final persuasive speeches and next post will be about that. This one will be about one of the creative writing method. I chose one and used it to generate some ideas for the speech "Education for the future parent". This is the scheme I've got now with lots of new ideas I can describe. I think all these ideas can be devided into several groups to be more convinient. For example, what parents should care about: toys (toys should develop children not only entertain), machine and roads (sometimes children are too frivolous, they can drive drunk; also it can be connected not only with machines), food (salt and chicken lead us to fast food and danger they perform). Also, there are some warnings for future parents: sleepless nights, pain (physical and psycological). Moreover, one can see some pieces of advice in these list: dancing can make children happier, in winter you can go for a walk together and have lots of fun, traveling and new imr...

Our world and our soceity become bigger and bigger, wider and wider. And people in this word become farther and farther from each other. That doesn't mean, I hope, that we are not kind to each other. I hope we all understand that Martin Luther King was right saying: "We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools". And here is my story to prove that people keep in mind this idea even if they have never heard this quote. Last week, on Friday, I went to another part of the city to buy a guitar. I want to learnt to play it. I bought it and went to the bus stop. I took the risk and didn't take money to pay for my way back. I was going to comlete my fourth challenge and ask people around for some money. So I was ready to ask someone but I saw my uncle who lives in Maslyanino. It was a kind of a miracle. He was in Novosibirsk to meet his friends. He lended me the necessary amount of money. So that time I did't comlete the challenge. Nex...