Public Speaking - Part 1

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Public Speaking and Communication

1. Audience profile of your tutorial group using the seven demographic characteristics:.

Suggested answers:

        1. age – 18-year-old (17), 19-year-old (5), 20-year-old (3)

2. gender – 13 male 12 female

3. ethnic background – 22 Chinese, 2 Malay, 1 Indian

4. education – 19 SPM, 6 STPM

5. religion – 14 Christians, 8 Buddhists, 2 Muslims, 1 Hindu

6. economic status – 6 lower middle, 18 upper middle, 1 upper class

7. group membership – 6 English Society, 5 Chinese Cultural Society, 3 Taekwondo

2.    Suggested answers;

        a. Which categories were easiest to determine? ~ age, gender, ethnic background, religion

b. Which required more guesswork/enquiry? ~ religion, economic status, group membership

c. Which variable(s) has the most influence on your choice of topic and speech content?

        ~ age, gender; the audience’s age and gender let me know possible topic areas they’ll be interested in

3. How to overcome the negative tuning effect and turn the audience’s mood.        

Suggested answers:

  1. Well, it is obvious that many of us feel strongly about abortion. It’s a subject that is very important to most of us. What I’m going to talk about is also very important – but it is something I think we can all agree on – the challenge of finding ways to stop the AIDS epidemic now sweeping across our country.
  2. Danny’s descriptions of hip hop music were definitely eye-opening and informative. However, what I’m going to share with you is not a laughing matter at all. In fact, it’s becoming a matter of life or death on many college campuses: the problem of ecstasy pills that has got out of hand.
  3. The earlier speech has highlighted the latest trend in the local tv showbiz. Its impact to the society is undeniably significant. That’s why I choose to speak on the same subject matter too. However, I choose to look at reality shows from another point of view. Now, you will hear the other side of the story – Positive Lessons From Tv Reality Shows.
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4. A chart comparing characteristics of listening and hearing:

Public Speaking and Communication

1. Motivated gestures mean: gestures that are not inserted artificially or at random; rather, they should contribute naturally to the emphasis of the thought.

2. Guidelines/procedures of answering questions from the audience:

~  look at & listen to the questioner attentively, clarify the question, compliment the question, restate or repeat the question to involve all audience members, answer the question directly & briefly, check the response with the questioner

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