Public speaking, a course that helps students for improving their public speaking skill. Generally, the course is active and teaching information that does help students to have a more confident speaking towards the public. With that in mind, the teacher tried to make the class interesting by introducing interactive activities to attract student that do not pay attention. After five days, students in this class do learn some valuable information such as standing position, tone usage, and dictions.
In the beginning of class, the teacher requires students to make a brief introduction that tells everybody something interesting about themselves. After the introduction, the teacher and students commented and criticize the positive and the negative on each person. I am not sure about other students, but for me, I realize I need to stand in more stable instead of shaking my body side by side that distracts students. The teacher explained the importance of body language in a public speaking. Having a more confident standing position will send a message of credibility to the audience which makes them trust the speaker more. However, a different body position might make the audience the thinker is overconfident or shy. So, body language is a key of public speaking.
Ted talk, speeches talked from random educated person to share their ideas, is a great platform to understand how public speeches work. By analyzing different ted talks, students understand the importance of speaking speed and tones that help audience concentrate. For example, there was a bad ted talk about a woman who speaks really slow about the effect of video games. Due to her speech is way to slow, the audience wants her to speak faster. Another example is a person talking about his trip to Antartic and he speaks way too fast that audience needs to focus too much to understand his words. By analyzing different ted talks, students understand the importance of speed of speaking and how changing tone will hep audience focus.
Moreover, diction using is important. Teacher has prepared an activity of pretending an interview. Each person is required to get interviewed by some random question. To sound professional, words such as um and extreme words should be avoided. Also, the speaker should understand the importance of having a central claim that is not covered by excessive unnecessary information that distracts the reader.
With two weeks of class, students do understand a lot of factors that might affect public speaking. By focusing on different factors, students in a public speaking class will have a better public speaking skill. In conclusion, the class is an effective class that makes students understand specific skills.
In the beginning of class, the teacher requires students to make a brief introduction that tells everybody something interesting about themselves. After the introduction, the teacher and students commented and criticize the positive and the negative on each person. I am not sure about other students, but for me, I realize I need to stand in more stable instead of shaking my body side by side that distracts students. The teacher explained the importance of body language in a public speaking. Having a more confident standing position will send a message of credibility to the audience which makes them trust the speaker more. However, a different body position might make the audience the thinker is overconfident or shy. So, body language is a key of public speaking.
Ted talk, speeches talked from random educated person to share their ideas, is a great platform to understand how public speeches work. By analyzing different ted talks, students understand the importance of speaking speed and tones that help audience concentrate. For example, there was a bad ted talk about a woman who speaks really slow about the effect of video games. Due to her speech is way to slow, the audience wants her to speak faster. Another example is a person talking about his trip to Antartic and he speaks way too fast that audience needs to focus too much to understand his words. By analyzing different ted talks, students understand the importance of speed of speaking and how changing tone will hep audience focus.
Moreover, diction using is important. Teacher has prepared an activity of pretending an interview. Each person is required to get interviewed by some random question. To sound professional, words such as um and extreme words should be avoided. Also, the speaker should understand the importance of having a central claim that is not covered by excessive unnecessary information that distracts the reader.
With two weeks of class, students do understand a lot of factors that might affect public speaking. By focusing on different factors, students in a public speaking class will have a better public speaking skill. In conclusion, the class is an effective class that makes students understand specific skills.
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