Public Speaking Basics
What is "the act or process of making speeches in public" OR "the art of effective oral communication with an audience"?
This speech type is used to convince an audience that the speaker has the right opinion using concrete evidence, often seen in debates.
Persuasive Public Speaking
What does the acronym LDE stand for?
Leadership Development Events
In this LDE, FFA members recite the National FFA Creed to build self-confidence.
Creed Speaking
How many total LDE events were listed in the note-taking guide?
7 total
How many types of public speaking did we discuss?
6 total
This speech type uses visual aids like posters or objects to demonstrate how to do something.
Demonstration Public Speaking
Name the three geographical levels at which CDE and LDE events occur.
local, state, and national levels
In this event, students showcase their ability to think on their feet and demonstrate agricultural knowledge before judges.
Extemporaneous Public Speaking
This LDE helps students gain skills needed to seek employment in the agriculture industry.
Employment Skills
This type of public speaking relies on facts, data, and statistics to educate an audience and does not use visual aids.
Informative
This speech type aims to inspire an audience and give them the confidence to improve themselves.
Motivational Public Speaking
LDEs focus on building public speaking, employability skills, and this key skill set.
Leadership
In this LDE, students present a pre-written speech on an agriculture-related topic.
Prepared Public Speaking
Conduct of Chapter Meetings introduces parliamentary procedure and effective meetings to FFA members in these grade levels.
7-9
This informal type of public speaking is shorter than traditional speeches and communicates emotions through humor and funny stories.
Entertaining
True or False: Informative speeches frequently incorporate posters or physical props to illustrate points.
False (Informative speeches do not use visual aids)
CDEs and LDEs foster teamwork and promote communication while emphasizing the value of ethical competition over this.
Individual Achievement
Participants in this event research both the pros and cons of an agricultural topic and present their findings to judges.
Agricultural Issues
Teams perform a mock chapter meeting to show knowledge of basic parliamentary law during this LDE.
Parliamentary Procedure
This spontaneous type of speech is delivered without any prior preparation or rehearsal time.
Impromptu
Name three of the six core types of public speaking mentioned in the lesson.
Informative, Persuasive, Entertaining, Demonstration, Impromptu, and Motivational
Name two critical cognitive and operational skills that CDEs and LDEs help develop in students.
Critical thinking skills and effective decision making
Name all four individual or team public speaking LDEs included in the list of 7.
Creed Speaking, Extemporaneous Public Speaking, Prepared Public Speaking, and Agriculture Issues
Name the two meeting-focused LDE events that test knowledge of parliamentary law.
Conduct of Chapter Meetings (CCM) and Parliamentary Procedure