Speak Up! Improving Your Speaking Skills

Speak Up! Improving Your Speaking Skills

Learning Objective

At the end of the lesson, you will be able to identify the key components of effective speaking and practice them through interactive activities.

This slide sets the objective for the lesson and focuses the students' attention on what they will learn.

What do you already know about speaking skills?

What Makes a Good Speaker?

Good speakers engage their audience, maintain eye contact, and use clear and concise language.

Introduce the key components of effective speaking and ask the students to think about their own experiences with good and bad speakers.

Body Language

Body language can convey confidence and enthusiasm or nervousness and discomfort.

Discuss the importance of body language in effective speaking and encourage the students to practice different postures and gestures.

Voice and Tone

Varying your tone and volume can help keep your audience engaged and interested.

Explain the importance of voice and tone in effective speaking and give the students an opportunity to practice speaking with different inflections and volumes.

Vocabulary and Clarity

Using clear and concise language helps ensure that your message is understood.

Discuss the importance of vocabulary and clarity in effective speaking and provide the students with a list of commonly mispronounced words to practice.

Interactive Activity: Group Discussion

Divide the class into small groups and have them discuss a topic for five minutes.

This activity gives students an opportunity to practice engaging with their peers and maintaining a conversation.

Review and Reflection

Ask the students to reflect on what they learned and how they can apply it in their everyday lives.

This slide provides an opportunity for students to review what they learned and think about how they can continue to improve their speaking skills outside of class.

Write down 3 things you learned in this lesson.

Have students enter three things they learned in this lesson. With this they can indicate their own learning efficiency of this lesson.

Write down 2 things you want to know more about.

Here, students enter two things they would like to know more about. This not only increases involvement, but also gives them more ownership.