This document discusses the importance of communication skills for teaching professionals. It identifies soft skills, leadership, emotional intelligence, and time management as crucial skills. It also emphasizes the importance of speaking English fluently for teachers, especially in conducting classroom communication and interviews. The document provides tips for improving English speaking abilities, such as using common phrases, listening to television, songs, and news in English, and practicing speaking for one minute daily to overcome anxiety. Errors are considered acceptable when practicing, and teachers are encouraged to think in English to improve their skills.

1. Skill of Communication:
A PREREQUISITE FOR TEACHING PROFESSION

2.  Soft & Hard Skills
 Leadership
 EQ
 Time Management
 Social Networking

3. Why Should we learn English?
 Interview
 Classroom Communication
 Students are better
 Acquisition vs Learning

4. How to speak? What is the problem
with us?
 Writing instead of Speaking
 Focusing on Grammar
 Never attempted
 Anxiety

5. How to improve? (Do’s and Don’ts)
 Phrases
 Watching Tv
 Songs
 News Paper
 Speechofobia
 Tamil inside classroom
 Broken English

6.  Myth of bombastic words
 1 Minute Practice
 Think in English
 Error is Good
 Listen – imitate – reproduce
 Avoid listen for meaning – listen for sentence
construction

7. Thank You