Transcript Communication and speaking with Confidence

LHS
Mrs. Reardon
English 10
 Stage
fright occurs in about 90% of people
 Topophobia is a fear of speaking
 Flushed
white knuckles
 Rocking
 Fidgeting
 Sweating
 Shaking
 Be
prepared and be confident
 Remember that the audience members are
human too
 Don’t freak about little mistakes; smile and
continue
 Your audience doesn’t see or hear every little
mistake
 Remember to breath and pause for breathe
An important part of
communication!
 Hearing
is being able to physically detect
sounds
 Listening refers to getting meaning from
sounds that are heard
 75%
of a 10 minute speech is out of your
head within 48 hours
 This is why you take notes in school and why
visual aides are important for remembering
information
 Appreciative
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listening
Listen because we enjoy the sound (music,
nature, etc.)
 Discriminative

listening
Tuning out other sounds when we want to single
out one noise in the environment (listening to a
friend in a crowded room)
 Comprehensive
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listening
Listening to understand
Listening to instructions
 Therapeutic
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Listening to others who need to talk
Hearing a friend’s sad story
 Critical
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listening
listening
Listening and thinking carefully about what we
hear
Judging what is said
 Thinking
of what we want to say next instead
of listening
 Short attention span
 Tuning out dull topics
 Faking attention
 Being distracted
 Judging the speaker’s appearance
More than you ever wanted to know
about communication!
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Oratory/Rhetoric: study of public speaking
Communication is the process of sending and receiving
messages to achieve understanding
 INTRApersonal
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Communication with yourself (self talk- helps you
reason and plan what to say)
 INTERpersonal
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Communication between two or more people
Sender
Feedback
Receiver reacts
and provides
feedback
Sender wants to
communicate something
Message
Receiver
Take any element out and you have poor communication!
Can be
verbal,
nonverbal
 Written
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Must be read
 Verbal
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Spoken communication
 Nonverbal
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Communication without words
 Symbols
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Anything that stands for an idea and is used for
communication (flags, peace sign, stop sign)
55% of what people think of you
is determined within the first 30
seconds—before you ever open
you mouth (posture, clothing,
behavior, etc)
Nonverbal communication is
huge!!!
 Ethics
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Promotes what’s right; knows right from wrong
 Responsibility
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Can be trusted; doesn’t lie, mislead, or
plagiarize
 Pitch
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Highness or lowness of the sound you make
Monotone: no variation in pitch
 Tone
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Emotion reflected in voice; sarcastic, angry,
surprised, joyous, bored, questioning, etc.
Exercise: Say “the grass is green” using the
different tones
 Inflection
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Upward or downward glide of pitch as you speak
Questions=upward
Confident statements=downward
 Volume
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Loudness of voice
 Rate
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Speed of voice
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Nervousness will cause you to speed up
More important than verbal!
 Gestures
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Hands, eyes, heads (nodding)
 Greetings
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Handshakes, bows, waving
 Appearance
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Grooming and clothes (man in suit vs. man in
ripped jeans and dirty T-shirt)
Good handshake
Not so good handshake
 Positive
body
language
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Relaxed posture
Good eye contact
Nod in agreement
Smile at humor
Use gestures
 Negative
body
language
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Tension
Arms folded
Fidgeting
yawning
 You
will have a total of 50 listening points
 You will be evaluated as a listener after
every speech. If you are not paying attention
or are distracting the speaker, you will lose
points. You will not be able to earn them
back, so once they’re gone, they’re gone.