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Public Speaking Potpourri
Delivering Your Speech
Awesome Audiences
Feedback is Fun
100
A good one of these will spark interest in the speech to come. It should be brief, interesting, and relevant to your subject.
What is the title?
100
This can cause you to speak too quickly.
What is nervousness?
100
You have this kind of problem if you have trouble speaking clearly, or use fillers such as "like" or "ya know."
What is articulation?
100
In any public speaking situation, this is the group of listeners who make the communication with the speaker complete.
What is the audience?
100
This is a standard set of criteria used by a listener to rate a speech.
What is a rubric?
200
This is used to gain the audience's attention and also give them an idea of the speech to come.
What is an introduction?
200
Careful use of reasoning which follows formulas of classical critical thinking is known as this. I bet Aristotle would agree!
What is logic?
200
These are the two ways to word your speech for presentation.
What are a complete sentence outline and speaker's notes?
200
This is also known as a set of guidelines for our behavior while listening to a speech.
What is audience etiquette?
200
These are the two types of speech evaluations.
What are written and oral evaluations?
300
This part of the speech should bring together all the thoughts, emotions, discussions, arguments, and/or feelings you communicated to the audience.
What is the conclusion?
300
There are many factors to keep in mind when using visual aids. These are three of them.
What are 1) illustrating your speech's main points, 2) using color to emphasize detail or compare ideas, 3) practicing so you know it will run smoothly, 4) making sure your audience can see it, 5) keeping it out of sight until you're ready to use it, 6) facing the audience and not the visual, and 7) putting it away when you're finished.
300
This type of nonverbal communication consists of facial expressions, body movements, postures, and gestures.
What is body language?
300
There are many behaviors of which all audience members should be aware. These are three that audiences SHOULD DO.
What is 1) arrive on time, 2) sit down quietly, 3) turn off cell phones, 4) remain attentive, and 5) take notes.
300
In order for evaluations to be effective, everyone should do their best to provide this type of feedback.
What is constructive?
400
These are the three main ways of defining your speech's purpose. Yummm... this PIE tastes delicious!
What is to persuade, to inform, and to entertain?
400
This is another word for the feelings and passions of your audience members?
What is emotion?
400
Rehearsing your speech and keeping a positive attitude will help you overcome this.
What is stage fright?
400
Good listeners seek this from what they hear.
What is meaning?
400
Active listening requires this.
What is energy?
500
In this conclusion strategy, a speaker restates his or her points in a 1-2-3 order.
What is recapitulation?
500
When you take another's thoughts or ideas and put them into your own words, you are doing this.
What is paraphrasing?
500
When you do this, you add volume to your voice.
What is project your voice?
500
When you take notes during a speech, you should pay particular attention to the speaker's use of these two things.
What are repetition and emphasis?
500
For evaluations to be effective, it is important that we create an atmosphere of this.
What is trust?
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