This document discusses different oral skills including speaking and interacting. It identifies some positives and negatives of each. Speaking involves preparing comments and choosing what to say but can cause nerves. Interacting allows for feedback and thinking time but involves less control. The document provides tips for positive speaking such as making eye contact and thanking the audience. It also lists actions to avoid like reading from notes monotonously. Relaxation exercises are recommended to reduce fear of public speaking which affects 40% of people.

1. ORAL
SKILLS
MARTA GORT PANIELLO

2. TYPES OF ORAL SKILLS
SPEAKING INTERACTING
• 1 way
• Politicians speech, oral
presentations, news presenter,
comedians, priest, teachers
• 2 ways
• + common in real life

3. INTERACTING
POSITIVE NEGATIVE
• Context
• Feedback
• Checking
• Thinking time while the other
speaks
• No control
• Involves listening

4. SPEAKING
POSITIVE NEGATIVE
• Prepared
• Visual support
• Choose what you want to say
• Nervous

5. POSITIVE ACTIONS
- Watch reactions of the audience, Visual contact
- Highlight keywords and the end
- Clear and understandable, convincing
- Rich and accurate vocabulary
- Invite audience asking questions
- Appropriate clothes, right time
- Use presentation
- Thank audience

6. NEGATIVE ACTIONS
- Laugh and tell jokes to look funny
- Just read the text
- Speak loudly and very slow
- Learn the speech by heart
- Difficult to understand
- Careless attitude
- Cross arms and legs
- Speak monotonous
- Write everything in slider

7. FEAR OF SPEAKING
Top fear for 40% people. Posible reactions of your body:
Stutter blush
Sweat
Hands
tremble
Dry
mouth
Butterflies
in the
stomach

8. RELAXATION EXERCISES
• They help to remove the tension
• Visualize yourself doing well
• Confident posture:
• stand upright, shoulders back, chin up
• Feel secure and confident with your clothes
• Take deep, slow breaths

9. DON’T STOP SPEAKING!