TASK 1 PEPS1112 EFFECTIVE PUBLIC SPEAKING

DIGITAL PRODUCT (TASK 1)

Name: Nur’Ainaa Fathanah binti Affendi
Index Number: 2021022310075
Title of Coursework: PEPS1112 Effective Public Speaking
Name of Lecturer: Sir Camillus Ong Hock Siew
Date of Subsmission: 7 March 2022

Public Speaking

TASK 1 PEPS1112

Contents

Here’s what you’ll find in this e-book:

1. What is public Speaking?
2. Misconceptions of Public Speaking.
3. Activities that Students Can Do to Improve Themselves

What is public
speaking?

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DEFINITIONS OF PUBLIC SPEAKING

Public speaking is the process

01 of communicating
information to an audience.

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DEFINITIONS OF PUBLIC SPEAKING

School It is usually done before a
large audience, like in
02 school, the workplace and
even in our personal lives.
Workplace
Personal lives

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DEFINITIONS OF PUBLIC SPEAKING

03 Often, visual aids in the form of an
electronic slideshow are used to
supplement the speech. This
makes it more interesting to the
listeners.

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3 GOALS OF THE SPEECH

Educate the Entertain the Influence the
listeners listeners listeners

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MISCONCEPTIONS

● Students have some misconceptions when it comes to public

speaking.

● Public speaking is feared more than death.
● We hear so many different things about how to become

successful in public speaking.

● And we hold on to each like a lucky charm! But there are simple

things you need to do – consistently – to get better at public
speaking.

● Not assume everything we hear about public speaking success

to be true.

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WHAT ARE COMMON
MISCONCEPTIONS OF
PUBLIC SPEAKING?

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5 COMMON MISCONCEPTIONS OF THE SPEECH

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Good public Memorising the speech I am not funny
speakers are born can be a great way to

survive it

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My speech has to be I am not confident
perfect every time enough

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1. Good public speakers NOPE!

are born

❖ Public speaking needs consistent efforts.
❖ There are many great programs that offer speech lessons, not

to mention speech coaches who are readily available to guide
candidates.
❖ Do you think that Barack Obama, Martin Luther King, Steve
Jobs, and other famous speakers were already good the
moment they first set their feet on the stage?
❖ Perhaps they also started where you are in now — fearful of
standing in front of many people, fearful of making a
mistake, and fearful of being ineffective.

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2. Memorising the speech can be
a great way to survive it

Many beginners think that giving a In a presentation, however,
speech is similar to giving a you need to work off of your
monologue in a play, memorizing audience to best present value
carefully constructed lines word for to them.
word.

Performance coach Tony Robbins has
given thousands of presentations to packed
audiences over the past 30 years.

"You need to be in the moment and flexible to make it real
and raw. You'll enjoy it, they'll enjoy it, and you'll be
memorable." Robbins said.

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3. “I AM NOT FUNNY”

❖ You don’t have to be!
❖ As long as you can engage the audience and keep them

interested, you’ll do okay.

Students always say that they If you want to be a funny speaker, you
need to be funny to attract the should work on your funny bones and
practice it. Jokes, if not told in the right
audience. way, can fall flat. So practice them with
smaller groups in general conversations
first.

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4. My speech has to be perfect all

the time NOPE!

Let me give you some bad news – you are And then goof up
going to give a lot of bad, imperfect some more.
speeches before you give a perfect one.

So just grab every chance you get So don’t worry about perfection. The
to go in front of people and talk. speech we practice is always different
from the one we deliver.

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5. I’m not confident enough

You don’t have to be the authority
on everything. As long as you make
sense, the listeners will be okay.

It’s not about experts in
everything. Just speak about
what you know.

The more you face people, the more
confident you will get. It’s that simple!

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Activities that
Students Can Do to
Improve Themselves

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ACITIVITES

TONGUE TWISTER LET’S MAKE A MY FRIEND’S
COMMERCIAL FICTIONAL LIFE

IMPROMPTU GAME SPOT MY LIE

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1. Tongue twister

One of the most important exercises to improve public speaking skills is Tongue Twister. .
The speaker selects a twister from a box and must pronounce the printed sentence three
times without faltering over any syllables. Many students like to be competitive and
therefore practice it at home to beat their friends in this game.

FOR EXAMPLE: She sells sea-shells by the seashore.

Control speech Increase one’s
problems or even confidence
pause

Improves Can be practiced right before
pronunciations an important event such as
webinar/seminar or talk show

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2. LET’S MAKE A COMMERCIAL

Get a bunch of things from your Someone is giving a random product.
room or from your house, bring It might be a deodorant, might be an
them in and you need to make a
commercial about these items. iphone, it could be anything. And
then they are required to give a 30
second to 1 minute commercial on
this product and talk about why this

is so awesome and why people
should buy it. So that’s a really fun

one as well.

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3. MY FRIEND’S FICTIONAL LIFE

In this activity, what you do is you get up in front of people and you take
one of your friends and you introduce them. However, instead of
introducing them in the normal way you make up a fictional life for them.

So you say,
Hi! This is Jane Smith, and she actually moonlights as a
jazz pianist for the underground mafia.
And you talk about her life, whatever it may be.

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You basically just get up in front of 4.
people and somebody gives you
something impromptu to run with. IMPROMPTU
GAME
It might be a topic, it might be a
sentence or it might just be a single They need to talk about what
word or anything like that. But makes a great teacher, or they
generally we run with just a certain need to talk about social media
topic.
changes.
FOR EXAMPLE:

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5. SPOT MY LIE

This one is generally pretty easy to out A person gets up and tells 3 truths
work and a lot of fun as well. about themselves, but 2 of them
need to be true and one of them
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So they get up and they tell 3 things
about themselves and then the
audience needs to choose which one
was a lie and they see if they were
correct.

ReFERENCES

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THANKS!