1. Improving Speaking
By: Alona C. Crisanto

2. Activity
 Divide the group by school
Answers will be collected after few minutes

3. Improve Speaking Skills

4. Effective communication helps us better
understand a person or situation, enables us
to resolve differences, build trust and
respect, and create environments where
creative ideas, problem solving, affection,
and caring can flourish. As simple as
communication seems, much of what we try
to communicate–and others try to
communicate to us–gets misunderstood,
which can cause conflict and frustration in
personal and professional relationships. By
learning these effective communication
skills, you can better connect with your
spouse, kids, friends, and coworkers.

5. The Teacher
 Improving speaking skills begins with fostering student
motivation and effective teaching
 Improving the speaking skills of your students may be
difficult, but the added benefit is building confidence in students
for speaking skills and strategies.

6. Teaching Activity Using Speaking
Activities

7. •Use picture prompts. Depending on the
variety of visual resources and class level
and ability, a teacher can brainstorm with
the class a variety of sentences, (key)
words, and phrases around a particular
category or situational context that is the
building block for a presentation.

8. 
Follow-up with a memory
game or exercise. Students then
work in pairs writing down or
translating the words they
remember.

9.  Another teaching activity involves
asking questions or presenting
statements that are not true about
themselves, and then asking their
friends to decide whether they are
true or false. Students have a lot of
fun with this one.

10. Tips for Public
Speaking

11. Feeling some
nervousness before
giving a speech is
natural and even
beneficial, but too much
nervousness can be
detrimental. Here are
some

12. Know your material

13. 1Know the audience

14. . Use humor

15. Practice. Practice.
Practice

16. Know the audience

17. Relax

18. Visualize yourself giving your
speech

19. Realize that people want you
to succeed

20. Don’t apologize for any
nervousness or problem – the
audience probably never
noticed it.

21. Concentrate on the message –Concentrate on the message –
not the medium. Focus yournot the medium. Focus your
attention away from your ownattention away from your own
anxieties and concentrate onanxieties and concentrate on
your message and youryour message and your
audience.audience.

22. Gain experience. Mainly, yourGain experience. Mainly, your
speech should represent youspeech should represent you
— as an authority and as a— as an authority and as a
person. Experience buildsperson. Experience builds
confidence, which is the keyconfidence, which is the key
to effective speaking.to effective speaking.