[英语学习]口语训练.ppt

Tips for giving public speeches Giving speeches and presentations is an inevitable part of life. Whether it be at school or at a conference, speeches and orals dominate most fields of study. What is worse is that over three quarters of the population fear presentations in front of people even though, eight times out of ten there is nothing to fear or be anxious about. For the remaining 20 percent, the following tips will help you better prepare for a public speech and to better deliver, starting today. 1. Be prepared and practice.Part of being nervous during an oral or presentation is due to the fact that you feel like you will forget critical pieces of information or that you will get up front of everyone and forget everything. Practice, over and over, until you are able to do your presentation with the minimal amount of cue cards（提示卡）. Practice in different settings, in front of different people. 2. Pick a topic that interests you.It is hard to speak passionately and with conviction when you are talking about something that you couldn’t care about to save your life. Pick a topic that you know about so that you will be able to inject a little charisma（魅力） into your speech. When questions come around at the end, you will be more equipped to answer them if you love what you talked about. Also, picking a topic that interests you, but that you don’t necessarily know a lot about, makes information found regarding that topic easier to encode into long term memory and then to retrieve it! Easier to remember makes for an easier performance. 3. Don’t leave the audience out.When the audience is pulled into your speech, or is forced to interact with you while you are giving your speech, their curiosity and attention will be on you. When you do not interact with the audience, you are giving them a huge opportunity to daydream, doze off and not listen. Why spend all that time on a speech to have your audience fall asleep? 4. Know your audience.Know who you will be speak