Tips by Taller de oratoria in Platzi
-Make a list of 5 topics of your interest. Analyze them and select 1 to be main topic of your speech
-Ask yourself WHAT do I want my audience to remember or learn about my speech?
-Express WHY your audience needs to learn about this topic
-Draft your ideas and prepare your speech
-Find a nice place to record practice!
-Record your speech
Speech
1. Focus on one major idea
2. Give people a reason to care
3. Build your idea with familiar concepts
4. Make your idea worth sharing
Voice volume must be tempered
emotion, message, space, noise, distance
Use these 5 key points to start structuring your presentation.
-What does the audience need to hear?
-Structure the flow of your message. It does not have to be the definitive version. Create a first draft.
-Style: make it unique
-Memorize the flow, not the whole script!
-Delivery: organize the topic and your ideas. Make them clear to you so you can deliver the message effectively
How to put your ideas together
-What do you want the audience to remember/ understand/ believe?
-Support your message with evidence and information to validate your claims
-Make sure you include anecdotes, metaphors and opinions in your presentation.
Key points sugestions and recommendations (claims,support, connectors)
-Definition or explanation
-Elements
-Functions
-Social context
-Measurements
-Time references
-Strengths
-Consequences
-Benefits
Communication media
-Conversation and public speaking
-Messages, documents and publications
-Images and music
-Video, broadcast and social media
-Physichal environment
-Virtual and mixed reality
Concrete evidence
1. Facts, statistics and testimonials
2. Examples and illustrations
3. Metaphors and analogies
Key points, suggestions and recommendations
Definitions or explanations, elements, functions, social context, measurements, time references, strengths, consequences, benefits
Get on the right mindset
-What are you good at? Acknowledge the positive!
-Accept that you make mistakes
-Have a backup plan
-Interact with the audience!
How to provide speech structure and flow
-Deliver previews in the introduction
-Highlight the transitions between the main ideas in our speech
-Supply reviews in the conclusion
The 10 minute rule
Prepare to engage your audience
- Ask provocative questions
- Provide troubling, amusing or remarkable facts
- Explain your own interest in the topic
-Tel listeners what the topic has to do with them
Example about speech
Intro:Today I
will be discussing
Outline: I want
to begin by.. and then I’ll move on to
Intro to the
first point: I will first cover… /to get started, let’s look at
Similar points:
in the same way/ this is similar to
Disagreeing
points: however/ even so / on the other hand
Transition:
fundamentally/ a major issue is
Emphasizing:
more importantly/ primarily /mainly
Conclude:
finally, I want to say / I’d like to leave you with this
Find your public speaking voice
-Speak slowly
-Include different kinds of pauses in your speech
-Read out loud (Practice with music or poetry)
-Record yourself!
