1. Have a Go at Public Speaking

2. How does the thought of speaking in public make you feel
How does the thought of speaking in public make you feel? Do you feel like

3. THIS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

4. Let’s Chat
Have you ever done public speaking? How do you feel about speaking in public? What do you want to learn to day?

5. Tip No. 1 Remember the Scouts Motto - Be Prepared Make sure that:
Before the presentation you have practiced, practiced, practiced – try out he speech on you friends and or family
You have the time, date and location of where you are speaking
You know exactly what you are speaking about
how long you are speaking and who the audience is
You have a contact phone number
If you have equipment there is some one to help you with it

6. Tip No. 1 Remember the Scouts Motto - Be Prepared
What else can you think of to be prepared?

7. Tip No. 2 Before the big event Make sure that you:
Arrive early (at least 30 minutes early)
Have help to set up the laptop and the
presentation
Get any hand outs or props ready
Check all the equipment is working
Get a coffee and relax!

8. Tip No. 4 How to beat those butterflies in your stomach
You are about to start but you are feeling nervous here are some tricks that may help:
Make sure you have practiced before the
day of your speech.
When speaking try looking at the friendliest faces in the audience and make eye contact
Relax and smile.
Slow down, take a deep breath and breath slowly
It is OK to let the audience know you are nervous
Use power point slides with pictures and people will look at that and not you so much

9. Tip No. 5 Ready Set Go At the start of your presentation you should:
Introduce yourself
Warm up the audience with an ice breaker

10. Ice Breakers for a small audience
If you were a comic strip character, who would you be and why?
Ask everyone to say three things
about themself make two true
and one a lie. Everyone else has
to guess the lie
Who wants to have a go at running an icebreaker now?

11. Let’s start the rpesentaion
Ice breakers for a large audience
Let’s start the rpesentaion
Get everyone to introduce them selves to the person on their right.
Get people to tell the person next to them one thing people do not know about them
Get people to do something physical such us rolling shoulders, shaking
hands stretching etc.

12. Tip No. 6 Keep the audience listening
Ways to keep the audience listening to the speech include:
Make eye contact with people in the audience
Talk to you audience not at them
Smile and be friendly and try to think you
are having an interesting chat with people
Don’t talk too fast and pause sometimes to collect your thoughts
Remember to breath

13. Tip No. 7
Move Baby Move
If you just stand in one spot people will start to lose attention remember to:
Show some movement – move around the stage a bit
Talk with you hands use gestures to make points
Use your head and facial expressions
Make sure you change positions sometimes

14. Tips No. 6 & 7 Move Baby Move & Listening
YOUR TURN! Who wants to show us your moves – have a go – speak to us?? about an issue that is important to you

15. Tip No. 8
WAKE UP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
You can tell when people are getting bored because they begin
to move in their seats and they can stop looking at you!!!! Some tricks to include:
use props in your speech including posters, toys, hats etc
Ask questions for the audience to answer
Pass around a bag of lollies
Change the way you are speaking sometimes
talk a bit louder sometimes lower your voice.

16. What other ideas can you think of to stop people getting bored
Tip No. 8
WAKE UP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
What other ideas can you think of to stop people getting bored

17. Tip No. 8 Questions??????????? Which one of these ideas do you like?
Giving people the chance to ask questions is really important but when and how often? The decision is up to you ideas include:
Leaving time at the end of the speech
for people to ask questions
Stopping at different times in the speech and asking if there are any questions
Or you ask the audience questions ( good way of keeping their attention)
Which one of these ideas do you like?

18. Tip No. 9
Answers !!!!!!!
OOOPs now you have to answer the question here are some tips:
Know the topic you are talking about
Make eye contact with person who asked you the question
Repeat the question so everyone in the audience can hear it
Make people feel comfortable by saying “That’s a good question" or, "I’m glad you asked that”
Answer clearly and briefly
If you don’t know the answer don’t worry we can’t know everything

19. Have a go at Q & A

20. Tip No 10 My work here is done!
Now you have finished your speech there are a few things that you might want to say before you leave including:
Thank everyone for listening
Give out notes if you have them
Let people know where they can get more information about the topic if they are interested.

21. Writing a presentation for your group
Here are some ideas for writing your speech
Decide what you want the audience to learn about your group.
Understand your audience – who is your audience what do they need to know and why
Deciding what should go in your speech – try brainstorming with other members in your group. Ideas could include:
What is self advocacy
What are self advocacy groups
Details about your group e.g. name, history where and
when you meet
What you do at your meetings
Things your group are working on
Issues you care about
Why your group is important
How people can support self advocacy and more

22. Writing a presentation for your group
Once you have written your speech it is important to practice it to make sure it is not too long or too short
Get feedback from other people about what they think about the speech
Decide if you are using PowerPoint, photos, videos in your presentation
GOOD LUCK !!!!!!