TASK1 PEPS1112 EFFECTIVE PUBLIC SPEAKING

DIGITAL PRODUCT (TASK 1 )

Name : Sharifah Afifah Syahirah binti Wan Ahmad

Index Number : 2021022310078
Title of Coursework : PEPS1112 Effective Public Speaking
Name of Lecturer : Sir Camillus Ong Hock Siew
Date of Submission : 7 March 2022

Contents

1. What public speaking is
2. Misconceptions of public speaking
3. Activities that they can do to improve themselves

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What public
speaking is

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● Public speaking is a process of speaking to a group of people in a structured,

deliberate manner intended to inform, influence, or entertain the listeners. It

is closely allied to "presenting", although the latter has more of a commercial

advertisement connotation. Public speaking is commonly understood as a kind

of face-to-face speaking between individuals and audience for the purpose of

communication. Definition of public

speaking

● Public speaking is the ● Public speaking is
act or process of the art of effective
making speeches in oral communication
public. with an audience

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Basically, it's a presentation The goal of the speech
that's given live before an may be to educate,
audience and public entertain, or influence
speeches can cover a wide the listeners.
variety of different topics.

What public
speaking is

Public speaking, also called 5 Public speaking includes any
oratory or oration, has form of speaking (formally and
traditionally meant the act of informally) to an audience,
speaking face to face to a live including pre-recorded speech
audience. delivered over great distance
by means of technology.

Misconceptions
of public
speaking

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Brief: Everyone can Learning Objective: Understand
become a better that public speaking is a learned
public speaker skill that can be developed
through study and through conscious competence.
practice.

Key Terms:
• Conscious competence: A learning model
that relates to the psychological states
involved in the process of progressing from
incompetence to competence in a skill.

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You’re either Everyone can become a better public speaker through study
born a naturally and practice. You weren’t born knowing how to speak. You
were born with the ability to make sounds, but learning how
good public to turn those sounds into recognizable words is a skill you
speaker or not learned by listening to and interacting with caregivers.You
learned how to read and you learned how to write. Your
Developing language skills were acquired through conscious and
Conscious repeated attempts to learn over time. Learning how to
Competence become a good public speaker requires a similar
skill-building process.

● According to the conscious competence learning
model, there are four stages you need to move
through to develop competence in a new skill.

● The four stages are unconscious competence
(wrong intuition), conscious incompetence (wrong
analysis), conscious competence (right analysis), and
unconscious competence (right intuition).

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Common Misconception 1: You’re either born a
naturally good public speaker or not

1. Unconscious 2. Conscious
Incompetence Incompetence

(Wrong Intuition) (Wrong Analysis)

3. Conscious 4. Unconscious
Competence
Competence
(Right Analysis)
(Right Intuition)

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1. Unconscious ● In this stage, you don’t yet know how to do
Incompetence something and you don’t necessarily know that
you don’t know how to do it.
2.Conscious
Incompetence ● You may not even think the skill is important. To
begin learning, you need to acknowledge what
you don’t know and recognize the value of a new
skill.

● In this stage, though you still don’t understand
or know how to do something, you recognize
your deficit and the value of a new skill.

● During the stage of conscious incompetence,
you’re expected to make mistakes because
learning from your mistakes is a crucial part of
the learning process.

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3.Conscious ● At this stage, you know how to do
Competence something.

4.Unconscious ● However, demonstrating the skill or
Competence knowledge requires a lot of
concentration.

● It helps when you break what needs to
be done into small steps and keep
practicing.

● At this point, you’ve had so much practice
with a skill that it has become second
nature and can be performed easily.

● When you reach this stage, the skill feels
natural and it can be easy to forget that
you had to learn it in the first place.

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Common Misconception 2: Public speaking is all about
delivery.Speech content doesn’t matter

This is like saying Of course a good A good When we listen
that a good essay has good speech to a speech we
essay is simply grammar and also relies judge the
one that has punctuation, but on good speaker
good grammar it also has good content. according to
or punctuation. content. what they say in
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well they say it.

Common Misconception 3: Reading a speech is the best way
to ensure a good speech.

A speech is an act of Reading a speech To your audience, you
in the moment is the best way to no longer appear to be
communication with a ensure a good engaged in an active
specific audience. speech conversation with them.

Reading a speech If you lose your place, as so
undermines the often happens when you’re
spontaneous quality of reading out loud, you face the
your communication. embarrassing experience of
fumbling when you try to find it
again.

When read a speech, Reading your speech is
your voice is apt to
become monotone. generally considered a

very bad idea.

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Activities that
they can do to

improve
themselves

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1.This is best done with 2.When their time is
a group of people.Each up, the next person
person gets up and might has to get up and
speak for anywhere from they have to continue
20 seconds to a minute the story.
and they start telling a
story.

Continuous Story

4.This game helps people 3.So,obviously each person
engage in listening and doesn’t know what the
learn to be creative person before them is going
enough to make the story to say and so they have to
continue on and make continue the story and the
sense.
goal of this is to make the
story make sense.

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1.You can do this by 2.You get 2 nouns
either putting nouns on and you then have
key cards shuffling them to create a story
up and picking 2 up at a that connects that
time or you can use this 2 nouns.
random noun generator.

Connect The Nouns

4.Then you have to 3.So it might be ‘a
create a story that sheep’ and ‘a mechanic’
connects those 2 or it could be ‘friend’
nouns together. and ‘shoelace’.

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1.This one is done with 2.So it could be a farm
images primarily and a where you have images of
set of images that are animals, or the barn house
related to each other. or something funny
happening on the farm.

A Fake Holiday

4.So you are using these 3.The speaker is required
images as the key cards, as
to where the story needs to to tell maybe 1, 2 or 3
go so the person needs to sentences for each image
adapt the story based on the and then you click forward
images that are given. to the next image,then
they need to use the next
image to continue the
story.

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1.This one is generally 2.You will find that some
pretty easy to out work
and a lot of fun as well. students do it really well,
but then some students just
fumble when they are trying
to lie and it’s quiet humorous
to watch.

Which Is A Lie?

4.So they get up and they 3.A person gets up and tells
tell 3 things about 3 truths about themselves,
themselves and then the but 2 of them need to be
audience needs to choose true and one of them needs
which one was a lie and they to be a lie.
see if they were correct.
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1.Get a bunch of things from 2.Someone is giving a
your room or from your random product. It
house, bring them in and you might be a deodorant,
need to make a commercial might be an iphone, it
about these items. could be anything.

Make A Commercial

3.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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1.You give a person an 2.You give them an
ending. It could be a ending and they have
saying: “Diamonds are to create a story that
forever” or an ending to matches up with that
a story ‘and the man ending.
cried for 3 days’.
A lot of being a
Endings great public speaking
is about story
Teaching people how telling.
to creatively think up
stories on the spot is
going to make them a
better public speaker.

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References

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Thank
you!