COMMUNICATION & PRESENTATION SKILLS ORAL SKILLS & SPOKEN ENGLISH C.Praveen Kumar Assoc. Professor Department of Humanities & Sciences SLC IET Hyderabad

MAIN POINTS TO REMEMBER ABOUT ORAL PRESENTATION (i) effective use of visual aids (ii) adequate eye contact : size of the audience (iii) clarity in pronunciation and fluency (iv) maintaining a proper speed of presentation (v) posture and body movements suggesting confidence (vi) seeking and making proper use of visual feedback (vii) noting down important points arising out of discussion

DEVELOPING ORAL SKILLS 1. Speech & Writing/Printing: a comparison Speech : pitch, volume, tone, speed, pauses, body movements, facial expressions Writing/Printing: punctuation, capitalization, spacing, margins, fonts

DEVELOPING ORAL SKILLS (continued) 2. Pronunciation of Words: (a) vowel and consonant sounds (comparison of sounds with letters a-z); The letter “a” in : fat /æ/, father /a:/, fate /e ɪ /, about /ə/ Or the letters “th” in “thin” / ɵ / & “then” / ð /. Also notice (b) word-stress: ‘language, communi’cation

DEVELOPING ORAL SKILLS (continued) 3. Use of the phonetic script and the (Pronouncing) Dictionary: International Phonetic Alphabet: free downloading is possible Dictionaries on CD : listening to the pronunciation and it variety (e.g. British & American) now possible

DEVELOPING ORAL SKILLS (continued) 4. Pronunciation of Sentences: intonation and rhythm INTONATION: rising / (yes /) falling \ (yes \) combination \/ (yes \/) RHYTHM: de dum de dum x ’x ’

Vowel sounds of English (Pure Vowels/Monophthongs) initiallymediallyfinally 1. /i:/ eastsheetkey 2. /I/ ithitduty 3. /e / endsend 4. /æ/ and sand 5. /a:/ artheart car 6. / ɒ / oxfox

Vowel sounds of English (continued) initiallymediallyfinally 7. / ɔ :/ allball saw 8. /U/ put 9. /u:/ oozechoosechew 10./  / upcup 11./з:/earnlearn stir 12. /ə/agopolicemaker

Vowel sounds of English (continued) Diphthongs 13. /e ɪ / eightstraightstay 14. /ə ʊ / oakjoke slow 15. /a ɪ / icemicemy 16./a ʊ / outshouthow 17. / ɔɪ / oilboilboy 18. / ɪ ə/ earsbeardpeer 19. /eə/ airspairedhare 20. /uə/ curedtour

Consonant sounds of English initiallymediallyfinally 1. /p/ pin spinkeep 2. /b/ bintubsclub 3. /t/ tell sticklight 4. /d/ day headslaid 5. /k/ keep skillstick 6. /g/ getjugsbag

Consonant sounds of English (continued) initiallymediallyfinally 7. / ʧ / chin reachedteach 8. / ʤ / jokehingedlarge 9. /m/ metsmoke team 10. /n/ netsnaketin 11. /ŋ/ ringssing 12. /l/ lotflingfull

Consonant sounds of English (continued) initiallymediallyfinally 13 /f/ fansoftif 14. /v/ vanleavesthief 15. / ɵ / thinmonthsbath 16./ ð / thenclothesbathe

Consonant sounds of English (continued) initiallymediallyfinally 17. /s/ siplistless 18. /z/ ziploserbuzz 19. / ʃ / shiprushedhush 20. / ʒ / measurerouge

Consonant sounds of English (continued) initiallymediallyfinally 21. /h/ hotbehave 22. /r/ rottry 23. /w/ wattsweat 24. /j/ yatch tune

Word-stress Two-syllable words Stress on first syllable ‘bargain ‘govern ‘secret ‘mischief ‘message ‘cabbage ‘surface ‘furnace ‘husband ‘butcher ‘proverb ‘thorough ‘oven ‘onion ‘compass

Word-stress (continued) Two-syllable words Stress on second syllable ad’mit for’bid suc’ced sup’press po’lice pay’ee dis’miss ag’ree se’lect re’quest pre’fer re’fer oc’cur ar’rest com’mence per’haps

Word-stress (continued) Three-syllable words Stress on first syllable ’advertise ’educate ’illustrate ’furniture ’government ’literature ’recognize ’signature ’tentative Stress on second syllable ad’venture com’mercial de’cision ex’ternal in’ternal per’mission re’vision spec’tator um’brella

Word-stress (continued) Three-syllable words Primary Stress on third syllable,addres’see,ciga’rette,coin’cide,devo’tee,engi’neer,guaran’tee,recim’mend

Word-stress (continued) Four-syllable words Primary Stress on first syllable ’applicable ’accurately ’comfortable ’honourable Primary Stress on second syllable ad’vertisement ap’preciate a’rithmetic e’xaggerate par’ticipate pho’tography

Word-stress (continued) Four-syllable words Primary Stress on third syllable acci’dental appli’cation exhi’bition inde’pendent indi’vidual Primary Stress on fourth syllable dedica’tee exami’nee

Word-stress (continued) words with more than four syllables Primary Stress on first syllable ‘favouritism ‘cannibalism ‘secularism Primary Stress on second syllable ad’venturousness en’thusiasm con’servatism Primary Stress on third syllable elec’tricity irre’sponsible popu’larity Primary Stress on fourth syllable acade’mician civili’zation pactici’pation

Word-stress (continued): stress change according to part of speech COMPARE: Noun/AdjectiveVerb ’absentab’sent ’accentac’cent ’concertcon’cert ’conflictcon’flict ’exportex’port ’producepro’duce ’subjectsub’ject

Attributes of good oral communication 1.Sounds and sound combinations 2. Stress 3. Rhythm 4. Intonation 5. Speed: pausing 6. Clarity of articulation 7. Voice modulation: volume & pitch variation (avoiding “monotonous speech)