Public speaking and speech improvement for Filipino students - Tan, Arsenia B. (Mandaluyong City National Book Store, 1997)
What public speaking involves -- What is public speaking? -- How does public speaking as a communication work? -- What factors make up effective public speaking personality -- Intelligence -- Integrity of virtue -- Training -- Techniques -- Delivery as an effective medium of putting words into action -- What is delivery -- The value of delivery to the speaker -- Aspects of delivery -- Developing a pleasing, impressive voice and using gestures -- Factors to consider about gestures -- Types, parts and uses of gestures -- The principles of effective gestures -- Preparing the speech -- Choosing a subject -- Organizing the speech -- Adapting the language to the speech and using audio-visual aids for effective audience appeal -- Tackling the problem of listening -- solving the problem of listening -- Variations in the forms of your prepared speeches -- Method of preparation and delivery determines your speech -- Speeches for special occasions -- Speaking with a definite purpose -- The informative speech -- The inspirational speech -- the entertaining or graceful speech -- The persuasive speech -- The argumentative speech -- The art of audience psychology -- The characteristics of an audience -- The emotions of the audience -- The motives of the audience -- Can children and teenagers become public speakers and a type of audience in a public speaking occasion -- Children and teenagers as public speakers -- Preparing a child or teenager to stand up and say something in public -- Developing the mood walking towards the stage on platform and the posture of children and teenager when they appear on the place of public performance of the speech -- Personal appearance, facial expressions, voice gesture and delivery -- Personal appearance and facial expression -- Voice -- Gestures -- Delivery -- Children and teenagers as an audience -- Pointers to remember when you are delivering a speech to a youthful audience -- Getting involved with a group discussion -- requirements of group communication -- Process of group decision making or problem solving -- Factors to consider in group communication -- Types of group discussion -- The debate -- The round table talk -- The panel discussion -- The symposium -- The forum lecture -- The campaign speech -- Factors to consider in making a campaign speech -- The elements of good speech campaigns -- The effective tools of appeals in a campaign speech -- Speeches for special occasions -- The funeral occasion -- The wedding ceremony -- The master of ceremony speech -- The graduation speech -- Some special types of public speaking which are arise from occasional historical or special events of the time -- Speech of dedication of buildings - public or private -- and of statues of important heroes and persons or a given historical or special events -- Speech for fund raising -- The sales/information booth talk -- The interview and choral verse recitation: special forms of public speaking -- The interview -- The need of training -- The tools and principles involved in the interview -- Principles of conciliation in meeting points or objectives -- Steps in the interview -- Choral verse speaking -- The director of choral group -- The choral group member and his responsibilities -- The material: its choice -- Voice classification and division -- Pointer for rehearsals -- Bodily action in the choric interpretation and timing of the gestures -- suggestions for choral verse performance -- Dramatic interpretation and play production -- Dramatic interpretation -- Factors to consider in effective dramatic interpretation play acting -- Factors to consider in play production -- Lesson 1 - Mastery of the intonation patterns in English -- Lesson 2 - Mastery of English sounds -- Lesson 3 - Drill on consonant sounds -- Lesson 4 - Mastering the pronunciation of consonant sounds that offer difficulties -- Lesson 5 - Learning to perceive and distinguish unfamiliar consonantal sounds and to pronounce them accurately -- Lesson 6 - Mastering unfamiliar consonantal sounds of SH,CH,Dj -- Lesson 7 - Mastering the pronunciation of significant consonant sounds often mispronounced -- Lesson 8 - Pronunciation of S and Z sounds -- Lesson 9 - Mastering the pronunciation of R and L sounds -- Lesson 10 - Pronunciation drills on consonant clusters with R and L -- Lesson 11 - Mastering the sounds W, WH (HW) and Y -- Lesson 12 - Pronunciation of M, N (NG) sounds -- Lesson 13 - The consonant sounds /f/ as in fan, /v/ as in van -- Lesson 14 - Consonant sound in contrast /p/ as in pat; /f/ as in fat -- Lesson 15 - Consonant sound in contrast /v/ as in vote; /b/ as in boat -- Lesson 16 - Consonant sound in contrast /f/ as in fin; /Ɵ/ as in thin -- Lesson 17 - consonant sound in contrast /v/ as in vat; /⨍/ as in that -- Lesson 18 - Consonant sound in contrast /⨍/ as in thy; /Ɵ/ as in thigh -- Lesson 19 - Consonant sound in contrast /Ɵ/ as in thank; /s/ as in sank -- Lesson 20 - Consonant sound in contrast /⨍/ as in there; /d/ as in dare -- Lesson 21 - Consonant sound in contrast /⨍/ as in then; /z/ as in zen -- Lesson 22 - Consonant sound in contrast /d/ as in damp; /r/ as in ramp -- Lesson 23 - Consonant sound in contrast /s/ as in seal; /z/ as in zeal -- Lesson 24 - Consonant sound in contrast /w/ as in witch; /wh/ as in which -- Lesson 25 - Consonant sound in contrast /dʒ/ as in jest; /č or t⎰/ as in chest -- Lesson 26 - Consonant sound in contrast /Ɵ/ as in thank; /⎰/ as in shank -- Lesson 27 - Consonant sound in contrast /s/ as in sack; /? or ⎰/ as in sack -- Lesson 28 - Consonant sound in contrast /Ɵ/ as in thank; /t/ as in tank -- Lesson 29 - /č or t⎰ /as in chatter; /? or ⎰/ as in shatter -- Lesson 30 - Mastering the vowel I(IY) and I sounds -- Lesson 31 - Pronunciation of Ey (a) and E (a) -- Lesson 32 - Pronunciation of ӕ(ӑ), a: (ӓ), and a(ǒ) -- Lesson 33 - Mastering the U (ōō) and U (ǒǒ) sounds -- Lesson 34 - Pronunciation of O (ō) and and (ǔ) sounds -- Lesson 35 - Drills on vowel sounds in contrast -- Lesson 36 - Vowel sounds in contrast /iy/ as in steep; /e/ as in steps -- Lesson 37 - Vowel sounds in contrast /ey/ as in gate; /e/ as in get -- Lesson 38 - Vowel sounds in contrast /e/ as in bed; /ӕ/ as in bad -- Lesson 39 - Vowel sounds in contrast /ey/ as in hate; /ӕ/ as in hat -- Lesson 40 - Vowel sounds in contrast /i/ as in hit; /∂-Λ/ as in hut -- Lesson 41 - Vowel sounds in contrast /ӕ/ as in hat; /∂-Λ/ as in hut -- Lesson 42 - Vowel sounds in contrast /ӕ/ as in cap; /a/ as in cop -- Lesson 43 - Vowel sounds in contrast /a/ as in cot; /𐐣/ as in caught -- Lesson 44 - Vowel sounds in contrast /a/ as in cot; /ow/ as in coat -- Lesson 45 - Vowel sounds in contrast /∂-Λ/ as cut; /a/ as in cot -- Lesson 46 - Vowel sounds in contrast /u/ as in pull; /uw/ as in pool -- Lesson 47 - Vowel sounds in contrast /∂/ as in must; /ow/ as in most -- Lesson 48 - Vowel sounds in contrast /∂/ as in but; /𐐣/as in bought -- Lesson 49 - Vowel diphthongs in contrast /aw/ as in bout; /ay/ as in bite -- Lesson 50 - Vowel diphthongs in contrast /aw/ as in bow; oy/ as in boy -- Lesson 51 - More drills on the pronunciation of the simple vowel -- Samples of choral verse speaking materials -- Sample of dramatic interpretation -- Samples of persuasive and argumentative speeches -- Sample of an oratorical speech.
Keywords: Public speaking; Oral communication