Basic Public Speaking for High School Students

Public Speaking and Oral Presentation Skills for High School Students

TBC-InTV Public Speaking and Oral Presentation Skills are designed to help students acquire, develop or enhance their public speaking ability. Through a series of meaningful exercises, we train the students on logical presentation, rhetorics, and self-empowerment techniques that enable them to gain more confidence through a participative type of teaching style that encourages incremental progress through ongoing practice and exercise.
We help participant(s) to:

Through a teacher-student assessment, plus class participation, the students

  1. discover their public speaking strengths rectify weaknesses
  2. develop confidence and eradicate stage fright
  3. sharpen verbal communication tools ( linguistic mastery, etc.)
  4. identify and practice non-verbal communication tools ( facial expression, eye-to-eye contact, voice, movement, body language)
  5. prepare an overall speech: outline, visual aids, practice
  6. handle Q and A with confidence 
  7. harness persuasive skills
  8. shine in all the public speaking arenas

Lesson 2: Extemporaneous Speech

What is the actual meaning of extemporaneous?

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Extemporaneous Speech is this: 

Extemporaneous speaking is : 

(1)  composed, performed, or uttered on the spur of the moment: impromptu

 (2) carefully prepared but delivered without notes or text

(3) skilled at or given to extemporaneous utterance

Meriam Webster

After watching a video on extemporaneous speech, a short lecturette by the teacher, the students are all given 3 minutes to deliver their extemporaneous speeches. 

The teachers check on the grammar, fluency, pronunciation, delivery, posture, and general performance after everyone had delivered their speech. 

Lesson 4: Panel Discussion

What is a panel discussion ?

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A panel discussion, or simply a panel, involves a group of people gathered to discuss a topic in front of an audience, typically at scientific, business, or academic conferences, fan conventions, and on television shows. Panels usually include a moderator who guides the discussion and sometimes elicits audience questions, with the goal of being informative and entertaining.[1][2] Film panels at fan conventions have been credited with boosting box office returns by generating advance buzz. ( Wiki)

After watching the lecture on how to moderate a panel discussion, and watching a video on Teenage Bullying, the students take turns moderating a panel discussion. 

How to moderate a panel discussion:

 

Panel Discussion: Bullying 

Unit 1: Read Speech

Never read your speech. But if you can't help it, you may do so. But follow some of our TBC-InTV tips on reading a speech.

WIN SYSTEM VALUE: If you know your intentions, and you are passionate about them, public speaking will be easy. 

Watch Greta Thurnberg’s READ SPEECH and share your critique about her delivery as a whole. 

This activity is will help the participants write, and deliver a read speech effectively by following some techniques:
  1. The Greta Greenberg style
  2. Use a teleprompter 
  3. Use cue cards
  4. Read it like a second-grade teacher
  5. Use body language, eye contact, stand straight, relax, speak with conviction, vary your voice, speak with the audience
 
 

 
 

 

 

Lesson 3: Impromptu Speech

WIN SYSTEM VALUE:
Impromptu speaking is a speech that a person delivers without predetermination or preparation. The speaker is most commonly provided with their topic in the form of a quotation, but the topic may also be presented as an object, proverb, one-word abstract, or one of the many alternative possibilities.[1] While specific rules and norms vary with the organization and level of competition, the speeches tend to follow a basic speech format and cover topics that are both humorous and profound. (Wikipedia)

In this lesson, the students watch a sample of a High School student delivering an impromptu speech:

Lesson 5: Q and A

What is Q and A?

 Q and A
is an event or session during which members of an audience have the opportunity to ask a notable person questions

Watch a concrete example of
Pres. Obama’s Q and A

After watching Pres. Obama’s Q and A, the students critique the Q and A show and having listened to the teacher’s lecturette on Q and A, the students take turns getting interviewed by their classmates on a given topic: “Get to Know Me”