2. Essentials of Oral Communication helps us to:
- express yourself clearly and confidently
- gain respect of other people
- achieve your goals
Oral communication is also important because it makes you become an
effective leader:
- One who is able to
(1) listen attentively to identify the conveyed meaning
(2) collaborate with others
(3) use critical thinking and problem solving skills
(4) give appropriate feedback
(5) converse with others of different backgrounds
3. Essentials of Oral Communication helps us to:
- express yourself clearly and confidently
- gain respect of other people
- achieve your goals
Oral communication is also important because it makes you become an
effective leader:
- One who is able to
(1) listen attentively to identify the conveyed meaning;
(2) collaborate with others;
(3) use critical thinking and problem solving skills;
(4) give appropriate feedback;
(5) converse with others of different backgrounds
4. Purpose:
To inform
- Seek to provide the audience with clear understanding of the concept
or idea presented by the speaker.
To entertain
- Seek to provide the audience with entertainment; humorous speeches
To persuade
- Seek to provide the audience with favorable or acceptable ideas that
can influence their own ideas and decisions.
6. Manners:
1. Observe ethically sound goals
- Avoid criticizing your teachers, family, friends, and other people or
promoting mass destruction, for instance, hacking.
2. Prepare all the time
- Full responsibility to yourself and to your audience
3. Tell the truth
- Be accurate with your sources and data
4. Be sensible and sensitive
- Your audience come from different backgrounds, so as much as possible,
respect their identity, affiliation, religion, beliefs, values, preferences, and
orientation
7. Components:
1.Introduction
a. attention getter (p.88-89/Barrot, 2018)
-quotation - anecdote
-proverb - rhetorical question
-parable - dramatic statement
b. Relevance of the topic to the audience/ speaker’s credibility
II. Body
a. Main idea 1
- supporting detail 1
- supporting detail 2
8. b. Main idea 2
- supporting detail 1
- supporting detail 2
c. Main idea 3
- supporting detail 1
- supporting detail 2
III. Conclusion
- Closure (letting your audience know that you are about to end
your speech)
- Summary
- call to action
- powerful closing statement
9. Organizational Pattern for Persuasive Speech
1. A. F .O. R. E. S. T (anecdotes, facts and figures, opinion, rhetorical questions,
emotive language, superlatives, tripling)
Here’s how: (1) Begin your speech with a personal story, observation, or
experience; (2) Provide striking statistics that can support your ideas; (3) Add in
your opinion.
You may start with .. “I believe that… ,”
(4) Think of engaging rhetorical questions; (5) Use emotional appeal; (6) Use
superlatives to exaggerate an idea
10. Organizational Pattern for Persuasive Speech
For example:
a. Purpose: To persuade the listeners that over the years, the
death penalty is unjustifiable.
b. Main Point: There is no reason for the state to revive death
penalty.
11. Organizational Pattern for Persuasive Speech
c. Philippines still has problems with the justice system. In
fact, the article of Philippine Star columnist Delon Porcall,
indicated that President Noynoy Aquino acknowledged it:
“Aquino said that the country’s justice system is far from
perfect, citing cases of innocent people found guilty of
crimes they did not commit only because they were unable
to hire good lawyers.”
12. Anecdote 1. My father died of lethal years ago.
1.1 He’s a victim of this unjust society; he was
killed for a crime that has never did.
Facts and Figures 2. When RA 7659 or the Death Penalty Law
was still active, six out of 10 innocent
people had become victims.
Opinion 2.1 Reviving the law is unjustifiable.
13. Rhetorical 2.2 If that law would be removed,
Question sure are we that no more innocent men
and women would become victims?
Emotive Language 2.3 We are a nation that values life and
thinks that everyone deserves chances to
change and live for their families.
14. Superlatives 2.4 Think, we will only support the
revival of this law, if you could
revive the life of innocents grave.
Tripling 2.5 Think. Think. Think
