ORAL COMMUNICATION WARM UP: Choose an object inside the classroom to which you can compare communication. Be creative with your answer. WEEK 1- DAY 1 ASSIGNMENT: NATURE AND ELEMENTS OF COMMUNICATION Write the word communication at the center and ask the students what do they know about the term. KEY TAKEWAYS: Communication is a process of sharing and conveying messages or information from one person to another within and across channels, contexts, media, and cultures (McCornack, 2014). There is a wide variety of contexts and situations in which communication can be manifested; it can be a face-to-face interaction, a phone conversation, a group discussion, a meeting or interview, a letter correspondence, a class recitation, and many others. “YOU CANNOT NOT COMMUNICATE” Certainly, you cannot live without communicating, as a social animal, you need to interact with your fellow human beings. Communication is so indispensable to your existence that you cannot pass a day without it. Even the persons with disability communicate their feelings, emotions, wants and needs. Although the medium of communication is different from yours, they nevertheless engage in communication. People communicate for several purposes: to inquire, inform, entertain, persuade NATURE OF COMMUNICATION 1. Communication is a process. Process refers to something that changes in the course of its doing. Communication as a process is compared to life. It keeps on changing and never stays as is. The words keep multiplying with added meaning. PASS THE MESSAGE The teacher will arrange the students in line. The first person in the line will whisper the message to the person at the back of them. And the person at the last will say the message. Since communication is parcel of your life, you need to use it effectively. You can only do this by gaining an understanding on how communication works. The activity is a simple illustration of the communication process. The elements of the communication process are the following: 1.Speaker – the source of information or message. He is the one who transmits the message by means of his body and voice. He may be called sender, source or encoder. 2. Message – the information, ideas, or thoughts conveyed by the speaker in words or in actions. It may be composed of idea, opinions, feelings, emotion, or skill. 3. Encoding – the process of converting the message into words, actions, or other forms that the speaker understands. 4. Channel –This is the pathway of communication through which the communication travel. The channel may be aural, visual or audio- visual. The language the speaker uses is oral. When he uses his body, writes on the board, present illustration, his medium is visual. Posters, drawings and billboards are examples of visual. Motion picture and stage plays make use of effective communication and these are examples of audio- visual. This could involve any of the five senses. It could also be a medium such as radio, television.