# Presentation: 315339

## Rate

- There is no correct rate of speed for every speech.
- People can listen 4 to 5 times faster than the normal rate of 120 words per minute.
- Vary your rate of speech to keep from losing the audience’ attention.
- Use the rate of speech to add emphasis.

- EA3.3.1 - Rate

## Volume

- Check out the room to know how loudly you must talk.
- Speak louder or softer to emphasize a point.

- EA3.3.2 - Volume

## Pitch

- Pitch is the use of notes (higher and lower) in voice range.
- Use pitch to change vowels, words or entire sentences.
- Variety in speech pitch helps to avoid monotone and rivets the listener’s attention.

- EA3.3.3 - Pitch

## Pause

- Pause gives you time to catch your breath and the audience time to collect your ideas.
- Pauses serve the same function as punctuation in writing.
- Short pauses usually divide points within a sentence.
- Longer pauses note the ends of sentences.
- Don’t get pause-happy.

- EA3.3.4 - Pause

## Articulation and Pronunciation

- Both indicate your oral command of the English language.
- Articulation is the art of speaking intelligibly and making the proper sounds with the lips, jaw, teeth and tongue.
- Pronunciation is pronouncing a word correctly.  Not sure?  Check a dictionary.

- EA3.3.5 - Articulation and Pronunciation

## Length

- The length of your presentation is crucial.
- Be brief and concise.
- Don’t waste the audience’s time.
- Have your stuff together before you speak by knowing what you want to say and then saying it.

- EA3.3.6 - Length

## Practice Aloud

- You are your own worst judge of the quality of your own speech.
- Make your speech appear natural.
- Know your delivery style and techniques.
- PRACTICE! PRACTICE! PRACTICE!

- EA3.3.7 - Practice Aloud

## First Impressions

- "*It’s not what you say, but how you say it: With a first impression, voice counts for 37 percent, appearance 55 percent and what you say only 8 percent."*
* **- *from *Successful Meetings*

- EA3.3.8 - First Impressions

## Make the Best Use of Visual Aids

- Stand beside your visual aid.
- Talk to the audience--not the visual aid.
- Display it when it is needed and remove or cover when it’s not.
- Ensure it is readable, simple & uncluttered.
- Know exactly what’s on the visual aid.
- Ask another person to operate the equipment.
- Visuals provide a form of emphasis.
- Check spelling, punctuation & layout.

- EA3.3.9- Make the Best Use of Visual Aids

## Anonymous Quote

*"You never get a second chance to make a first impression."*
*- *Anonymous

- EA3.3.10 - Anonymous Quote

## Bryant

*"I'm just a plow hand from Arkansas, but I have learned how to hold a team together.  How to lift some men up, how to calm down others, until finally they've got one heartbeat together, a team.  There's just three things I'd never say: If anything goes bad, I did it.  If anything goes really good, then you did it.  That's all it takes to get people to win football games for you."*
- - Bear Bryant

- EA3.3.11 - Bear Bryant Quote

## Extemporaneous & Impromptu

- Composed, performed or uttered on the spur of the moment; IMPROMPTU, carefully prepared but delivered without notes or text.
-  - *Merriam Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary*
- 10th Edition
- Appeared spontaneous but preceded with detailed planning, outlining and practicing; not delivered by rote memory.  Opposite of impromptu speaking since considerable time exists to prepare.
- -* The Quill’s First Speaking Dictionary*

- EA3.3.12 - Two Quotes

## Six-step Checklist

- Analyze purpose and audience
- Conduct the research
- Support your ideas
- Get organized
- Draft and edit
- Fight for feedback

- EA3.3.13 - Six-step Checklist