1.  Rate  Pitch  Volume  Pronunciation  Articulation  Eye Contact  Posture & Movement Special Delivery!!!

2. Rate  Speed at which we speak  Nervous = Fast  Too FAST will result in…  Can’t catch your breath  Swallow saliva at awkward times  Sweat  Pass out

3. How to speak at an appropriate rate?  Take your time and BREATH  Give each word it’s due  Speak deliberately and with feeling

4. Pitch  Highs and Lows of speech  Don’t speak in Monotone  Give important words emphasis  Use INFLECTION: alternating tone and pitch to emphasize words

5. Let’s practice Inflection  Emphasize the underlined words…  I think that you are the best.  How does the meaning change when you say the italicized words?

6. Volume  Loudness or softness of your voice  How would your volume differ in each of the situations?  Seated next to a friend at a rock concert  Seated next to a friend before the morning announcements at school  Seated next to a friend in the library  Seated in a small conference room for an employees’ meeting  Speaking to family at dinner table  Presenting All About Me presentation to class

7. Turn up/down the volume…  Be alert of your physical environment  Be ready to speak over any problem by adjusting your volume level  Breathing will help with your volume output

8. Pronunciation  Saying the sounds of the word properly and stressing the correct syllable  Use a dictionary when in doubt

9. Articulation  crispness, with which you say your syllables in a word  Say: Probably (3 syllable word)  Sounds like Probly  Other problems…  Missing t in water, matter, better  Sounds like d  Missing ing in coming, going, swimming  Sounds like in  TAKE YOUR TIME and ARTICULATE

10. Let’s practice  Sally sells sea shells at the sea shore.  Unique New York. Unique New York. You know you need unique New York.

11. Are you ready for a challenge?  Betty Botter bought some butter. “But,” she said, “this butter’s bitter. If I put it in my batter it will make my batter bitter. But a bit of better butter will but make my batter better.” So, she bought a bit of butter, better than the bitter butter that made her bitter batter better. So, ‘twas better than Betty Botter bought a bit of better butter.

12. Let’s practice some more…  Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers. If Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers, where’s the peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked?

13. Eye Contact  The MOST important nonverbal element when delivering a presentation  Plan where you look during your speech  Use sustained eye contact: look a each person for a number of seconds before moving onto another person  Look AT your audience not the floor, ceiling, visual aid or only your teacher  Scan your entire audience even the back row and far corners

14. Posture & Movement  Confidence is exposed in your posture.  Stand tall and proud, so shoulders back.  Don’t pace back and forth  Don’t wander  Don’t avoid movement – Use platform movement (walking or stepping with a purpose while presenting)