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Public Speaking Term

TermDefinition
Fluency/Continuity: moving with ease; polished.
Volume: the degree of loudness of sound.
Eye Contact: making a visual connection with individuals in audience.
Pacing: the degree of quickness with which one delivers a speech.
Movement: changing physical position.
Gesticulation: act of making gestures or moving one’s body parts, usually arms, hands, legs, as a means of expres- sion.
Facial Expression: communicating ideas and emotions nonverbally by contorting one’s face.
Enunciation: clearly saying the sounds and syllables in words.
Pronunciation: speaking words as they are meant to be spoken.
Audience: the people who are listening and/or viewing a presentation or speaker.
Tone: the expression in one’s voice generated by altering pitch (highness and lowness).
Diction: word choice.
Impromptu/Extemporaneous: speaking or presenting with little or no preparation.
Visual Aids: any visible props or components of one’s presentation.
What percentage of communication is non-verbal? 95%
Your fluency/continuity means that you should be.... polished and not using filler words such as like, so, um
When choosing your volume, you need to know..... your audience, size of audience, size of room, do you have a microphone or not; you speak so person in the back can hear
You need to keep eye contact because it keeps your audience engaged, look over the head if you can't look someone in the eyes
When pacing your speech make sure you...... go slow enough for everyone to follow, take pauses, think of it having a beat or rhythm to it
Your movement should be...... Controlled and help keep engagement. It should not be distracting or look nervous
Your gesticulation should.... match your words and create visual cues for your speech to carry message
Your facial expression can.... match the feelings you are having about the topic and can be used for sarcasm as well
You must make sure you do what for enunciation? You must finish the sounds on words or syllables so audience can understand you
Your diction should... use the vocabulary needed to talk about your topic but also be at a level your audience understands
Examples of visual aids are..... google slides, videos, artifacts, pictures
An impromptu speech is something..... unexpected (questions at a job interview)
Created by: jschaer
 

 



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