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Finding your voice
The value of extended speaking
Finding your voice
• Megan Washington ‘Why I live in mortal dread
of public speaking’ clip 00.12 – 01.39 (..we’ll
get to that in a moment”)
Finding your voice
Benefits of extended speaking turns
• Helps confidence and to say what you really
want to say
• Puts a premium on intelligibility and doing
what you can do better (ingrained errors)
• Helps more widely in life (verbal and non-
verbal communication)
Non-verbal communication
• You tube video extract – David Beckham
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pts9YBJlxdI
Ideally from 00.48 (“what about speech...”) -
2.05 (“…change the impression he makes.”)
Issues
• What are they going to talk about?
• Public speaking is threatening
• Longer speaking turns need preparation
• Longer speaking turns mean one student monopolises talking time
Content
• Be informed
• Be passionate
• Be authentic
Passion and authenticity
Rita Pierson ‘Every kid needs a champion’ clip
00.12 (“I have spent ..) -01.55 (...people they
don’t like”)
Finding your voice - questions
• What did you want to be when you grew up?
• What skills or subjects have you mastered?
• What things excite you / do you really love doing?
• How would you like others to see / think of you?
• What change do you wish for most in the world?
• If you didn’t have to work again, what would you
do?
• What are you really looking forward to?
Make tasks non-threatening
• Daily tasks for individuals (read + report,
reviews of events and places, something
striking)
• Extracts tasks: beginnings and endings,
examples, illustrative stories, single slides
• Individual Presentation skills tasks
Extract tasks
Prepare a brief introduction to your job or
studies. Include one important lesson you have
learned from doing this work. Then present your
introduction to your partner.
“Both my parents were educators, my maternal
grandparents were educators, and
for the past 40 years, I've done
the same thing. ...”
Extract tasks
Work in pairs. Make a slide to illustrate this idea.
Then present it
One way to engage your customers is to monitor
social networks to see who is having a bad day.
Then the company can make
this person’s day better by
sending them a surprise gift.
Dan Barber
How I fell in love with a fish
Presentation skills
• Dan Barber ‘How I fell in love with a fish’ clip
00.08 - 1.38 (... nothing left)
Pace
This second fish, it's a different kind of love story. It's
the romantic kind, the kind where the more you get
to know your fish, the more you love the fish. I first
ate it at a restaurant in southern Spain. A journalist
friend had been talking about this fish for a long time.
She kind of set us up. It came to the table a bright,
almost shimmering, white colour. The chef had
overcooked it, like twice over. Amazingly, it was still
delicious.
Preparation and talking time
• Encourage collaboration
• Give equal opportunity to speak
• Incorporate active listening tasks (prediction,
2 good / 2 bad, presentation checklists,
summary tasks)
• Follow up with discussion and feedback
Presentation giving
• write the talk yourself; prepare well (edit and
hone the content)
• establish your credibility and build rapport
• structure your talk (core message + the journey)
• be focussed on your message, and make it stick
• bring the content to life + make it relatable
• work on your delivery (voice, pace, tone, body
language – be open)
The journey
Getting from A (the issue or problem) to
B (the solution)
1 A B
2 B A B
3 A B B B
4 A B A B A B
The journey
Dan Barber – How I fell in love with a fish 01.20
(“It’s hard to overstate…”) – 04.47(“... It tasted
like chicken”)
Extended speaking turns
• Give sense of achievement
• Prioritise intelligibility
• Help overcome blocks / plateaux
• Balance talking time between dominant and
quieter students
• Are a demand of many exams and real-life
situations
• Help students find their voice
