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Speaking in Public: Structured, Confident, and Pleasant Speech

Join the Speakers Development training to learn valuable tips and techniques for speaking in public, including structuring your speech, controlling your voice, and engaging your audience. Become a better thinker, speaker, and essay writer while having fun!

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Speaking in Public: Structured, Confident, and Pleasant Speech

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  1. TALKING. IN PUBLIC. Speakers Development, Week 1 Karolien Michiels

  2. Today’s Schedule • Part I General information about trainings • Part II Training: Speaking. In public. Goal of today: make a structured, confident and pleasant speech with an introduction, three points, and a conclusion

  3. Part I General information about training

  4. Tuesday meetings • Speakers development • Announcements by the Auditor (break) • Private Members Time • Full-blown debate • Social Today is different: getting everyone to speak and to know each other

  5. How training works • Preparation for competitive debating (and some other things) • You need pen & lots of paper • Training material uploaded to aberdebating.org • Just show up and enjoy

  6. Goals • Make you a better thinker • Make you better at speaking up • Make you better at essay writing • Get you to do well at debating competitions • Make sure you have fun while doing it • General goal of the society: make sure you have a really good time at university (always welcome with questions about everything!)

  7. Training schedule 1st term: Sharper • Talking. In public. Getting used to speaking in front of people • British Parliamentary Debating Introduction to the format • Matter Generation Coming up with arguments • Analysis Explaining your arguments properly • Argumentation & Logic Noticing mistakes in arguments • Values & First Principles Arguing Building up coherent cases from scratch • Spotting Debates Know what argument will win a debate • Judging Adjudicating debates • Tactical Decisions in First Half Competition strategies

  8. Training schedule 2nd term: Topics • Liberty and its Limits • Achieving Equality for Disadvantaged Groups • Limiting ‘Bad’ Influences on Society • Weighing up Group Rights and Individual Rights • Ethics • The Middle-East • Social Change & Western Values • Economic Policies • Party Politics

  9. If you ever want to know more • Go to competitions • Review training slides, they’re set up to be read at home too • There is loads of information on the internet in general • I have books that you can borrow, too • Send me a message and we’ll go for coffee and debate talk • We can also discuss arguments that you want to make in essays • kmm10@aber.ac.uk or karoliene.michiels@gmail.com or FB

  10. Part II Training: Speaking. In public.

  11. Speaking in public: Tips • Your eyes belong to the public • Things not to do with your hands • T-Rex • Footballer style • Fidgeting • Keep your voice under control • Breathe • Slow down • Smile • Smile, smile, smile

  12. Exercise 1 • Little groups • Five minutes preparation • 1-minute speech on something you really like or something you really hate • Novices first • Goal: keep yourself in check • TIP: Pick something you are passionate about, then it is easy to be natural and confident

  13. Break • Be back in 10 minutes

  14. How to structure every speech • Introduction tell us what you’re going to tell us • Point 1 • Point 2 tell us • … • Summary then tell us what you’ve told us  You have to make it easy for your audience to remember your message

  15. Example 1: Space exploration • We should put more money into the exploration of space because • It makes people dream • The planet is doomed • It could have military applications • Making people dream. Then you need to explain this argument a little bit more, maybe with some analysis or an example. • The planet is doomed and we should find somewhere else to live. Then you need to explain this argument a little bit more, maybe with some analysis or an example. • It could have useful military applications like space-based laser systems. Then you need to explain this argument a little bit more, maybe with some analysis or an example. • In conclusion, we should put more money into the exploration of space because • It makes people dream • The planet is doomed • It could have military applications Make every point three times. Judges (and essay markers) are overworked.

  16. Exercise 2 • Little groups • Fifteen minutes preparation • 2/3-minute speech • Novices first • Goal: make a structured speech with an introduction, three points, and a conclusion • Pick a motion from the list on the next page

  17. Exercise 2 • The UK should reintroduce the death penalty • The US should assassinate Vladimir Putin • Polygamy should be legalized • We should be allowed to kill seagulls • We should put more money into space exploration • The university should abolish essays • University education should be free • Tamed Da should only serve vegetarian meals • It is better to be rich than to be pretty • It’s nicer to have a cat than a baby

  18. Exercise 3 (if there’s time left) • Pick a second motion from the list • Think of three arguments and write them down • Swap papers with someone else and do the speech someone else prepared, with introduction, three points, and conclusion • Goal: make a structured speech with an introduction, three points, and a conclusion

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