Home assignment for the Intership

Hello students,

Thank you for your hard work last week, I knew you could do it.

Also, I know your intership is coming. Hopefully, you'll enjoy it and learn something new. Anyway, consider completing the following tasks soon.

1. Complete challenge #5 and be ready to share your experience after the intership.
2. Finish your final persuasive speech and email it to Yulia (irychkov@go.olemiss.edu) (This task is due Saturday, December, 1st). 

See you soon 

Writing a Speech: Editing and Proofreading

Dear students,

You did very well on completing last week’s tasks. Out of sight!

We are almost about to wrap up this short course on writing a speech, so this week’s tutorial is the last. (However, you are still going to keep working on your final speech, challenges, etc.!)

Our goal for this week is to sum up what you have learned at this course, i.e. the speech structure, the speech purpose and objectives, and creative ideas to make the speech juicy.  

As usual, please, email Yulia if you have any questions or concerns about the tasks. (irychkov@go.olemiss.edu). 

These tasks are due Monday, November 19th.

Best wishes

EDITING AND PROOFREADING

Once you figure out the topic, the purpose, the objectives, and the objectives of your speech as well as come up with good ideas to implement in your speech, you can finally start writing your speech.

The recommended steps are:

• write a rough draft
• refine your draft, adding illustrations and changing words
• rewrite it into spoken English, shortening sentences and changing words
• rehearse the speech aloud, timing it
• make alterations to fit the time slot.

I can’t tell if there is a limit for possible corrections. My experience shows that there is always something that can be altered or improved in a text. Anyway, it’s fine to be a bit of a perfectionist while editing the speech.

Definitely, every author and public speaker also has their own secrets for polishing the text. For example, Stephen King in his book “On Writing” emphasizes, “the adverb is not your friend.” In fact, he believes that “the road to hell is paved with adverbs” and compares them to dandelions that ruin your lawn. Adverbs are worst after “he said” and “she said” — those phrases are best left unadorned. You should also pay attention to your paragraphs, so that they flow with the turns and rhythms of your story. “Paragraphs are almost always as important for how they look as for what they say,” says King. 

The more you write the more ideas and tricks you will work out.

For now, consider the rules in chapter 5.2. Learning the Golden Rules of Speech Writing in your course book and complete the following task.

TASK 1.

Here is a speech draft written by Denis, a student who is taking Public speaking course this semester. He knows there is a lot of room for improvement in his speech. Help Denis to edit and polish his speech, applying all the writing strategies you know. Don’t hesitate to re-write the whole sentence or even paragraph if needed. Email the final version of the speech to Yulia (irychkov@go.olemiss.edu).  Highlight your additions and corrections in red.

Things to consider:

• 3-part speech structurу
• Strong introduction (attention-getter, topic sentence, etc.)
• Clear, well-structured  body
• Inspiring conclusion (summing up the arguments, call for action, etc.)
• Connectors and transitions
• Correct grammar and vocabulary

Why You Should Exercise

Hello! I believe exercise really helps you get organized. It also helps you to keep yourself in a healthy physically and mentally. Let’s see why it is so. When you are a lazy person, it is difficult to take the first step, but it is all a matter of committing yourself to something that will provide you a lot of positive feedback. Once you start doing exercise and observing positive results, you actually enjoy it. It takes a lot of effort and strong will, but it's worth it. The principal thing to do is to participate in an activity you like. If you start organizing your day, you will no longer be a person stressed-out without time to carry on with all your activities. Also, it is obvious that once you exercise you will have a better condition. You will be healthier in a physical way. It is probable that you will lose weight and your muscles will get stronger and stronger. Your body will feel good, full of energy and it will respond immediately to any action you want to do, any activity that has to be done with high spirits. Exercising is good is that it affects you positively in a mental and psychological way. Doing exercise helps you set specific goals which can be achieved. You become aware of your abilities, accept your weaknesses, and your self-esteem goes up. Any sport helps you not to think about school, friends, problems, among other things. It brings you time to think about yourself and no one else. It helps you keep your mind busy and to avoid dangerous habits like drugs. Doing exercise is very important to any person of any age. When exercise, you start living your life happily.

Speech Structure: Building the Body and Polishing the Conclusion

Dear students,

Thank you for completing your weekly tasks. We enjoy reading your works and see your progress in speech writing. Keep up the good work.

Last week we were talking about the importance of an attention-grabbing introduction. This week we are going to continue working on speech structure and make a focus on the body and the conclusion of the speech. Go over chapter 4.1 and 4.2 in your course book, complete the following tasks, and email the .doc file to Yulia. Note: please, write your last name in the file name, i.e. "Week 4 Ivanova.doc".

As usual, please, email Yulia if you have any questions or concerns about the tasks (irychkov@go.olemiss.edu).

These tasks are due Sunday, November 11th.

Best of luck

THE BODY
No doubt, you have ever heard about the Rule of Three. This basic formula can be seen in novels, short stories, movies, plays, reports, business briefings, and many other forms of communication.
The same Rule of Three is recommended for the body. No matter what your speech is about, consider the following basic speech outline template:

   1) Introduction — Establish topic and core message; list supporting points.
   2) Body
   • Supporting Point One;
   • Supporting Point Two;
   • Supporting Point Three.
   3) Conclusion — Recap main points; summarize core message; call-to-action.

Surprisingly, this simple 3-part outline template works for a wide range of speech topics and it does not contradict the organization patters given in chapter 4.2. The Body of the Speech Is the Heart of the Entire Presentation in your course book. On the contrary, it supports each of them.

TASK 1. 
Let’s try and extract the outline from one of the following performance. Choose one speech and make its outline. Make sure you provide a detailed structure of the body of the speech. You can use the sample outline in paragraph 4.2 as an example. 

1. “Grit: The power of passion and perseverance” by Angela Lee Duckworth at TED Talks Education https://www.ted.com/talks/angela_lee_duckworth_grit_the_power_of_passion_and_perseverance 
2. “How to live passionately—no matter your age” by Isabel Allende at TED2014 https://www.ted.com/talks/isabel_allende_how_to_live_passionately_no_matter_your_age (Note: in this speech, Ms.Allende effectively uses a 4-part body. Keep it in mind if you choose to analyze this performance).  
3. “3 rules to spark learning” by Ramsey Musallam at TED Talks Education https://www.ted.com/talks/ramsey_musallam_3_rules_to_spark_learning

THE CONCLUSION
The proven recipe of a neat conclusion requires only two ingredients:

1. Effective summary of the major points of the speech. 
2. Inspiring solution or action step.

• Decorate these two with your final appeal that challenges, inspires, or motivates your audience to consider the significance of your topic. 
• Make sure your tone corresponds with the entire speech. 
• It is also a good idea to get back to the introduction and make so called “full circle”. That always gives unity to the speech. 

TASK 2. 
Write a conclusion for the following speech. 

How to Communicate Effectively

     Establishing and developing effective communication is important in order to be heard and change your environment according to your own thoughts. No one will guess what you want or what you think if you don’t tell them, and nothing is going to change if you do not propose a change. The purpose of my speech is to discuss three important skills that will help you communicate effectively. Such skills are not to be afraid of speaking, express exactly what you mean to say, and listen while you are not speaking. 

    The first aspect to communicate effectively is not to be afraid of speaking. Anytime you need to say something, go ahead and do it. Most of the times people are afraid of speaking because they are not sure if it is the right thing to say or the right moment to say it. Be sure, say what you want to say, and do not regret it. If you speak you will be heard and taken into account. You are important so you need to be heard. There is one thing you should not do somehow: Do not say something that will hurt somebody’s feelings. Unless that something has to be said inevitably, say it, but as softly and gently as you can. Never hurt anyone intentionally. Always think twice before saying something. You choose what to say, just be sure to say the right thing at the right time. If you do that, you won’t regret a thing. 

    The second main aspect of effective communication is to express exactly what you mean to say. Pick up the words that will express exactly what you are thinking of. Do not forget that one half of a word belongs to the listener and the other to the speaker. The listener gets their own version of what is said. However your job is to express yourself clearly, so that you can avoid misunderstandings. Although, avoiding misunderstandings is a hard task (not impossible), when it is achieved you will be expressing yourself effectively. Everybody will be able to identify exactly what you say, what you think, and what you want. Words are double edged weapons which can be used either to defend or to attack. If you make a good use of them, you will be able to do almost everything.

    The third main point to effective communication, and probably the most important of all, is the listening part. Listen and do not interrupt when it is no longer your turn to speak. You will surely learn new things from listening to others. If a person is speaking, it’s because she or he wants to be heard. Effective communication is based on both listening and speaking. If communication were based only on speaking, it would be an absolute tyranny. Nevertheless, communication is the means through which you express yourself in order to be heard and change your environment according to your own version of reality. Thus, it would be impossible to change anything if there were no one to listen, learn, and accept new ideas. Listening is a gift, and good listeners are always appreciated because there are only a few. 

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Homework Assignments for Friday Class

Hello students,

The long weekends are coming! Have a break but make sure you have the following tasks done for Thursday, November, 8th.

    1. Complete challenge #4. Then writing a report, you should use an attention-getter in the introduction. We encourage you to try and use a quote. For that consult your course book, exercises 5 and 6 at pages 31-32.

The next tasks focus on your final persuasive speech.

    2. Implement one of the creative writing methods we were talking about to come up with ideas for your final speech. Describe the ideas you have generated and also upload a photo of your creative process (for example, a mind map or the six thinking hats ideas drawn in your notebook).

    3. Write a research plan (5 steps) and post it in your blog (see task 4 p.31 in your course book). Mind that one of the required steps is watching a news report or reading a newspaper article.

    4. Write the introduction for your persuasive speech using at least one of the attention-getters.  

    5. Make a file (a hardcopy and/or a digital one) where you are going to collect all the materials for your final speech. Bring it to the next class with all the mentioned materials done; we are going to discuss them.

Sorry guys, apparently, you have to be multitasking this week. Let this Indian sculpture give you inspiration and power.

Have a good week

Speech Structure: Mastering the Introduction

Hi there!

It looks like you guys have put a lot of work into the creativity activities last week. We have no doubt that now you can easily generate ideas for any speech and look at the problem from different perspectives.

Once you have clarified the purpose of your speech and come up with creative ideas for its content, it is high time to start working on the speech structure.

Traditionally, every speech as well as any neat text consists of three parts which are introduction, body, and conclusion. There is no point in arguing which one is the most important as they all perform their own function. However, it is a thought-through introduction that helps you to get the audience attention and set the right mood for your speech. Moreover, it is the introduction where you state the topic sentence and give a brief plan of your talk. That is why we are going to focus on the introduction this week.

We suggest that you go over the course book chapter 4.1 and tutorials in this blog, then complete the tasks after each tutorial and email the word document with your answers to Yulia (irychkov@go.olemiss.edu).

Please, contact Yulia if you have any questions or concerns about the tasks.

These tasks are due Sunday, November, 4th.

Best of luck

TASK 1. 
In chapter 4.1 The Introduction Can “Make or Break” You as a Speaker, five most common attention-getters for introduction are mentioned, which are:

• Asking questions
• Making references 
• Making a startling statement
• Giving a quotation
• Telling a story

Watch the following public speech performances and identify the technique(s) used in the introduction (attention-getter) in each performance. 

1. “How will we survive when the population hits 10 billion?” by Charles C. Mann  at TED2018 https://www.ted.com/talks/charles_c_mann_how_will_we_survive_when_the_population_hits_10_billion 
2. “Still Standing” by Ramona J. Smith at the 2018 Toastmasters International World Champion of Public Speaking https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Tev43VNRIc 
3. “Every kid needs a champion” by Rita Pierson at TED Talks Education https://www.ted.com/talks/rita_pierson_every_kid_needs_a_champion/discussion?...en
4. “How great leaders inspire action” by Simon Sinek at TEDxPuget Sound  https://www.ted.com/talks/simon_sinek_how_great_leaders_inspire_action?referrer=playlist-the_most_popular_talks_of_all 
5. “Looks aren't everything. Believe me, I'm a model” by Cameron Russell at TEDxMidAtlantic https://www.ted.com/talks/cameron_russell_looks_aren_t_everything_believe_me_i_m_a_model?referrer=playlist-the_most_popular_talks_of_all&language=en 

TASK 2. 
Once you got the audience attention, you smoothly move towards the thesis statement. I am using the word “smoothly” here on purpose to underline the necessity of this transit between the attention-getter and vocalizing the topic sentence, the main message of your speech.

Get back to the performances you have just watched and do the following for each speech:

1. Identify the thesis statement (write it down). 
2. Evaluate the transition between the attention-getter and the thesis statement on the scale from 0 (poor transition) to 3 (well-done transition). Shortly explain why you think so. 

Tasks for the Upcoming Week

Dear students,

I hope you are doing well.

Here is a saying I heard the other day, "The grass is greener where you water it." 
I beleive nothing good happens by itself. On the contrary, everything needs to be cultivated.

Once you start thinking that you can do better, then you begin building something really big and prominent.

With this inspiring idea, I want to introduce you a few tasks for the upcoming week.

1) Complete challenge #3 and be ready to share your experience in the class.
2) Come up with a topic for your final persuasive speech. Write down the purpose and set out the objectives. Share your ideas in the class.

These tasks are due Thursday, November, 1st. 

Have a good week

Heuristic Methods and Creative Writing

Dear students,

This week we are going to introduce you a few heuristic methods (from the word “Eureka!”) that you can use to create a neat speech.

Go over the activities and complete the tasks in red.

Make a MS Word file, put down your name and email address, then type the completed tasks and email to Yulia to irychkov@go.olemiss.edu  

We hope you will find these techniques helpful and worth using.

These tasks are due Sunday, October, 28th.

The two warm ups we will do, are the "One letter," exercise and the "Random word," exercise:

• One letter

Think about a letter and name as many objects as possible that start with this letter. 

For example, C - computer, course book, case, cucumber you just had for lunch, etc. 

You can play this game with your co-workers, and if everyone thinks of ten words then you're all winners.

Now it is your turn. Pick a letter a write down 10 words.

• Random words 

1. Go to the website https://www.textfixer.com/tools/random-words.php 
2. Generate 5 random words at Random Generator List.
3. Pick a few random words and try and tie them together in the most imaginative way possible. 

Write a paragraph using 5 words generated words. Highlight these words in the text.  

After this, you are ready for the following creative writing prompts:  

I. What if… 

Imagine a problematic situation and think of possible (or impossible) solutions. 

For example, “What if you are in the shower, you have shampoo in your hair, but suddenly the water in the whole building was turned off?” - I’ll melt ice cubes from the fridge in the microwave to rinse my hair. 

Here is another one for you to practice this activity:

What if there were no desks in the classrooms, but only beanbags? Write down 7 ideas.

II. Six Thinking Hats 

To formulate ideas for your speech. First, create a topic sentence, then challenge your brain to think in six different directions. Make notes while considering the following "thinking hats," as points to use in your future speech. 

White thinking hat. This hat covers facts, figures, information needs, and gaps.

Red thinking hat. This hat covers intuition, feelings, and emotions. The red hat allows the thinker to put forward an intuition without any need to justify it.

Black thinking hat. This is the hat of judgment and logic. It is used to point out why a suggestion does not fit the facts.

Yellow thinking hat. This is the hat of optimism. Why something will work, and why it will offer benefits.

Green thinking hat. This is the hat of creativity, alternatives, proposals, provocations, and changes.

Blue thinking hat. This is the hat of overview, and analysis. In technical terms, you look over your final product and see if it makes sense. 

Use this method to come up with ideas for the speech “How many foreign languages should be taught to students in school?” 

Formulate a topic sentence and simply describe the ideas that each hat helped you to generate. 

Challenge #2

Hey guys!

This week's task is to complete challenge #2 and tell about your experience at the class.

Enjoy the weekend!

The task is due Thursday, October, 25th. 

Clarifying Your Purpose and Setting Out Clear Objectives

Hi there!

We hope you’re doing well.

This week we are moving towards such a fundamental topic as preparing your speech. This is a pretty broad topic that is why we are going to work on that doing bite-size tutorials and tasks.

We suggest that you go over the course book chapter (chapter 3) and tutorials in this blog, then complete the tasks after each tutorial and email to Yulia (irychkov@go.olemiss.edu).

Please, email Yulia if you have any questions or concerns about the tasks.

These tasks are due Sunday, October 21st.

Best of luck

CLARIFYING YOUR PURPOSE

The main idea of preparing a speech can be stated this way: Don’t start right from the outline.
Most of great writers and speakers point out the importance of thinking over the topic and clarifying the purpose first.

In chapter 3.1. Clarifying Your Purpose in your course books, you are given the following questions to ask yourself before starting a speech:

- Why should I want to talk about this?
- Why should anybody want to listen to me?
- What single message would I want to put across?
- What need in the audience do I want to have satisfied when I have finished speaking?
- When they all walk away what state would I like them to leave in?

Stop for a moment and go over these questions. They may seem basic but you will be surprised how answering these questions helps not only state the purpose of your talk but also give you some ideas how to structure your speech and what points are crucial to mention.

TASK 1. 
Imagine you were asked to give a speech on the following topics. Consider the Wh-questions mentioned above to clarify the purpose of each speech. Write down your answers to each question. 

Speech 1. 
You are a primary school teacher. You should give a speech to your third graders on the following topic: “Why children should listen to their parents.”

Speech 2. 
You are working as a team leader in a summer language camp with high school students from the whole region. On the second day you are noticing that some guys and girls hesitate to meet new people or make friends within the team. You decide to take action and give a talk to your team stating “You will learn most from friends that are different from you.”

Speech 3. 
You are taking part at 2018 World Champion of Public Speaking “Toastmasters” and you are going to give a speech “Embarrassing moments make you stronger.”


SETTING OUT CLEAR, MEASURABLE OBJECTIVES

Once you figured out the purpose of your speech, make sure you set out clear objectives. A goal or purpose may be fairly general, but an objective needs to be specific. In other words it needs to be measurable and (preferably) quantifiable as well. You might want your audience to buy a product, change their lifestyle, etc. And you would also like to inspire each of them a little.

TASK 2. 
Watch the following performances and identify the possible objectives each speaker has set. 
1. Ken Robinson “Bring on the learning revolution!” at TED2010 https://www.ted.com/talks/sir_ken_robinson_bring_on_the_revolution
2. Zifang Su “Turn around”  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JKVTzuvjEpg
3. Matthew McConaughey – winner’s speech at the86th Oscars in 2014. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wD2cVhC-63I 

Speech Evaluation Tasks

Hello guys,

Another week - another challenging activities on public speaking craft for you.

1. Evaluate 3 persuasives speeches in your course book (pp. 100-104) using chart 10.3 Speech Content. Write down and bring your analysis to the class.

2. Enjoy watching Top 3 speeches from the "Toastmakers contest 2016", then choose one you like the most and evaluate it using the chart 10.2. Public Speaking Evaluation Chart. Please, make sure you provide examples from the speech and share your impressions on that. Write down and bring your analysis to the class.

3. Together with you classmates, come up with your own evaluating chart that you are going to use for further in-class performances. Starting with Anya Meteleva and Nastya Spondrikova, you all are going to give a talk and evaluate it all together using that chart.

Have a great week

These tasks are due October, 11th. 

Speech Writting: Confidence

Dear 3.026.2.16ers,

Now, you are about to start working on your writting skills! Hurray! 😊 

We belive that a good stratring point to do so is to practice writting a persuasive speech. 

The purpose of a persuasive speech is to convince your audience to agree with an idea or opinion that you put forth. It doesn't seem so complicated, does it? 

Think it over and write a persuasive speech on the following topic: 

Confidence is crucial to any undertaking. 

We are sure that your reflection on this topic will be an effective push towards new knowledge and the chellenges you are going to take up this semester. 

Good news! You don't have to deliver this speech in the class; just email the written speech to Yulia (irychkov@go.olemiss.edu). 

This task is due to September, 27th 

Questionnaire “Your level of oratory”

Everyone knows a great performance is always preceded by a hardworking preparation. The truth is it takes a few minutes to present and a few hours to create a speech.

What about you? Do you know how to go about speech witting? How to organize your speech? What things you should keep in mind?

Here is a questionnaire that will help you assess your proficiency in giving a speech.

Please, complete the questionnaire and email your result to Yulia (irychkov@go.olemiss.edu).


Also be ready to share your reflections on filling out the questionnaire in the class:

• What statements made you think?
• What surprised you?
• What aspects do you think you are strong at?
• What skills you think you should work on?
• How do you feel about the result?

This task is due to September, 24th.  

Анкета « Ваш профессионализм в создании спича» 

Следующая анкета поможет Вам идентифицировать особенности Вашего стиля общения с аудиторией, помогающие или мешающие донести свои идеи до слушателей.

Задание. Вспомните те случаи из вашей жизни, когда вам приходилось выступать перед собравшейся аудиторией. Представьте эти ситуации и прокомментируйте каждое из приведенных ниже утверждений как ''да'', ''нет'', ''иногда''.

1. Во время выступления я обычно стараюсь ''публично мыслить'', чтобы слушатели следили за ходом моих рассуждений.
2. Я знаю, как настроиться и с чего начать создание своего спича.
3. В своих выступлениях я, как правило, сопоставляю противоположные точки зрения, факты, концепции.
4. В процессе аргументации, я обычно ввожу заведомо абсурдное утверждение, приписав его реальному или возможному оппоненту.
5. Я часто применяю проблемную подачу тезиса, например, в форме вопроса.
6. Написав текст выступления, я делаю паузу и возвращаюсь к нему позднее, чтобы взглянуть свежим взглядом и отредактировать.
7. Работая над текстом спича, я использую приёмы для активизации творческого мышления.
8. Для выступления я выбираю наиболее убедительные и красноречивые аргументы, отбрасывая все менее значительное (оптимальное количество аргументов равно 3).
9. Для того чтобы вызвать эмоциональное сопереживание аудитории, я провожу анализ материальных и духовных интересов слушателей.
10. Планируя своё выступление, я знаю, как эффективно простроить работу.
11. Я четко ориентируюсь в системе ценностей конкретной аудитории и апеллирую только к весомым для нее ценностям.
12. Начиная свое выступление, я использую зачин (''крючок'') для активизации внимания аудитории.
13. Уже во вступлении я четко формулирую основную мысль (тезис) моего выступления.
14. В течение всего выступления я несколько раз повторяю тезис (основную мысль).
15. Во вступлении я отвечаю на немой вопрос слушателей ''А какое это отношение имеет ко мне?''.
16. В выступлениях на историческую или биографическую тематику я последовательно перехожу от одной микротемы к другой.
17. С целью активизации мыслительной деятельности слушателей я использую проблемную постановку вопроса.
18. В положительно настроенной аудитории я приберегаю самый сильный и веский аргумент напоследок.
19. В заключении я четко обобщаю все вышесказанное.
20. Я связываю конец моего выступления с началом.
21. При перечислении фактов я использую слова-организаторы: во-первых, во-вторых и т.д.
22. В начале своей речи я использую клише типа ''Для начала…''
23. В конце выступления я использую слова типа ''Подводя итоги…'', ''Суммируя вышесказанное…'' и т.д.
24. В начале моего выступления я называю основные положения, которые я собираюсь развивать в основной части моего доклада.
25. В заключительной части моего выступления я еще раз перечисляю основные положения моего доклада.
26. Если мое выступление является частью серии выступлений по одной теме, то я делаю ссылки на свои предыдущие выступления.
27. Если я собираюсь выступить по этой же теме еще раз, то я непременно упомяну об этом в своем выступлении.
28. В своей речи я прибегаю к различным повторам (тождественным, синонимическим, перифрастическим).
29. Во время выступления я пользуюсь словами типа ''как мы знаем'', ''как мы помним'', ''что мы знаем'' и т.д.
30. Во время выступления я пользуюсь словами типа ''забегая вперед, скажу'', ''как будет указано далее'' и т.д.
31. Для подтверждения высказанных теоретических положений, я привожу фактический материал.
32. В целях экономии времени в течение выступления я подбираю яркие факты, которые могут заменить часть рассуждений.
33. Я подбираю фактический материал таким образом, чтобы он был близок и понятен слушателям, соотносился с их образовательным уровнем и интересами.
34. Я использую примеры из личной жизни, чтобы вызвать эмоциональное сопереживание  аудитории.
35. В своих выступлениях я избегаю таких общих фраз как ''некоторое количество'', ''очень многие ученые'', ''большая сумма''.
36. Я всегда использую цифровой материал в сравнении, в сопоставлении с прошлым или планируемым.
37. В ходе выступления я не использую более трех цифр подряд без применения наглядных пособий.
38. Для того чтобы цифры лучше воспринимались на слух, я их округляю.
39. В выступлении я рисую словесные картины, чтобы аудитория не только слышала, но и ''видела'' как разворачиваются перед их мысленными взорами положения моей речи. Для этого я использую такие фразы, как ''Представьте себе, что у вас…'', Предположим, что вы…'' и т.д.
40. В заключительных словах моего выступления, я эмоционально обращаюсь к аудитории.

Добавьте 2 балла за каждый ответ «да»,
1 балл за каждый ответ «иногда»,
0 баллов за каждый ответ «нет».

Подсчитайте общую сумму баллов для всей анкеты.

О чём говорит общая сумма
39 баллов или меньше. У вас обнаружилось несколько барьеров, препятствующих эффек-тивному общению. Их следует устранить, преж¬де чем вы научитесь эффективному общению. Тем не менее, овладев рассмотренными в курсе на¬выками, вы обнаружите, что вам стало легче чет¬ко и убедительно излагать свои мысли — вне за¬висимости от ситуации, в которой вы оказались.

59 — 40 баллов. Вы встречаетесь с определен¬ными трудностями при попытке донести свои идеи до собеседника. Работая над изложенными в курсе приемами, Вы устраните эти препятствия и усилите позитивные стороны Вашего стиля общения.

69 — 60 баллов. Несмотря на определенные барьеры на пути к эффективному общению, эта сумма баллов свидетельствует о прочном фундаменте знаний и навыков, на который Вы сможете смело опираться.

80 — 70 баллов. В Вашем стиле общения больше позитивных, чем негативных моментов, и в любых ситуациях у Вас возникает немного проблем при изложении своих мыслей. Используйте рассмотренные в курсе приемы для совершенствования своих и так превышающих средний уровень навыков.

Summer Photos Speech

It seems like you guys have done a great job giving your first speech about summer vacations.

Now, try to assess your performance. Highlight three strengths and three weaknesses in your speech and be ready to share your reflections with the class.

Welcome to Public Speaking Course

Dear students,

Welcome to Public Speaking Course!

We hope you will enjoy working on your public speaking competences, overcoming stage fright, improving your writing skills, and discovering new facets of this craft.

This blog is going to serve as a course hub throughout the entire semester. Here you will find course tutorials and tasks, useful links and important updates. So please stay connected.

In case you have any questions or comments you can always reach us via email:
Svetlana Petrovna Khoroshilova: cvx69@mail.ru
Yulia Rychkova: irychkov@go.olemiss.edu

Remember, you mind is like a parachute. It only works when it is open.

Have a great semester,
Svetlana Petrovna and Yulia