2.
Why should you improve your speaking skills?
Strategies:
Before you speak.
While you speak.
After you speak.
Visual presentation tips.
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3. 1. Increases your self confidence.
2. Effective way to get a message across.
3. Could boost performances in other aspects of your life.
4. Makes you different from the rest.
4.
Lower your anxiety:
Deep breathing.
Prepare and plan:
Visualize yourself succeeding.
Relaxation techniques.
Relate your task to something
you know.
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Make a list of useful words
you might need for it
(vocabulary, expressions,
etc...).
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Plan your responses and
possible questions.
Positive self-talk.
Identify the goal and purpose
of your task.
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Feel prepared.
5.
Feeling in control:
Monitor yourself:
Concentrate on the task
Self-correct. If you
(don’t get distracted).
Don’t let your mistakes
stop you.
Think in English.
commit a mistake, fix it.
Use propper entonation.
If you don’t know how to
say something, make it
simple!
6.
Evaluate yourself:
Plan for future tasks:
Evaluate how you did it.
Look for a way to
Did you accomplish the
goal of the task?
Identify the problems, if
any.
Ask others for their
oppinion (colleagues,
teacher, etc...).
improve in your next
presentation.
Search for vocabulary
you had difficulties with.
Ask for help.
7.
Prepare them well in advance.
K.I.S.S. – Keep It Simple Stupid.
Make sure they are large enough.
Use easy to read fonts – there is a reason for Times-Roman.
Use a limited number of fonts.
Use color effectively.
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