Checkers speech

Before I began my speech I was very thrilled, excited, and motivated. I expressed a large desire to go first since there was no formal order of speakers. Minutes before class started, rehearsed my speech a few times to ensure that I have my content sharp and that I am following the outline to my best ability. Afterwards, it was only minutes before Dr. Lora said “It is 8 on my watch, so let us get started.” Right then and there, I got up and approached the stage with confidence. Another important

By reflecting upon my Values Speech, I will be more aware of what skills I have already accomplished and what skills I need to improve on in order to prepare myself better for the next big speech as well as to further improve my public speaking skills. Now that I look back at the recording of my presentation, I clearly saw strengths that were shown, but there were also weaknesses that I revealed, diminishing the overall powerful effect that my speech should have gave. As I watched Amy Cuddy’s TED

During speech class this semester, I gave several different types of speeches on several different topics. During this semester, my ability to give speeches in front of an audience has improved quite a bit, I hope. Going into the semester, I had a really hard time giving speeches to people, but now that speech is almost over I feel like I am more capable of doing so. I think the thing I did best during the semester was getting good information for each of my speeches. My favorite assignment was most

2nd Draft Muhammad Khalid English 12 Oct 15, 2017 Language: The Key to Communication Language plays a crucial role in our lives. It is a way to explain and interpret not only your feelings but also a way to teach and entertain. When we look up the word “language” in the dictionary, it states that it is “the method of human communication, either spoken or written, consisting of the use of words in a structured and conventional way.” It is a Latin word which means tongue. Language is an

On Monday, I gave my special occasion speech. I would have to say that I was most nervous for this speech and really I don’t know why. The topic I believe was a little harder because you did not have as strict of an outline that you could speak on. We could really pick any topic that had to do with a special occasion. I know for me it took a lot of thinking to decide which one I wanted to do and the one I did choose still felt awkward. Having such broad speech choice also made it hard for many people

read aloud directly from a paper I had written. I have never given a speech that required memorization or speaking based off of a key-word outline, so this experience was very new to me. Audio only: Thought I had a strong introduction, and introduced what I would be focusing on in my essay. I believe I sound fairly confident and seem to be speaking at a pace that is clear to understand and enunciated each syllable. As the speech progresses, it seems as if I’ve lost some confidence, I use more filler

Language is an important way to communicate with people around us in the world, but many people around us speak more than one language. Bilinguals are people who can speak at least two languages. There is a lot of debating on whether monolinguals have better memory or bilinguals. Many research has shown similar results with similar experiments. It is true that monolinguals do know more words in a language, but when it comes to memory, bilinguals have a better memory (Kudo & Swanson, 2014). Bilinguals

I physically speak about my choice of a topic compared to the overall setup of my actual presentatiom. Although I have improved tremendously over the past three semesters of ALARP, there are still some spots and skills that appeared in my final speech that I can adjust to make my presentations even better. These include my volume, tone, and my eye contact. For example, as I

things such as body language, tone, eye contact, etc. were easily forgotten since my last speech class over five years ago. All of that was easily spotted in the process of making my self-introduction video when I kept deciding to do retakes repeatedly. In the end, I managed to produce a product that would keep me from failing but it was nothing that I could be proud of. When it came time for the second speech to be due I was relieved almost that it would be another prerecorded session. I thought

Grab Bag Speech, My Path Interview, Career Path Presentation, Rhetorical Analysis Activity, Pitch Speech, Story Podcasts, and two impromptu speeches, I learned a lot of speaking skills and showed a big progress. In addition, Professor Khalil taught me a very important thing which is knowing people well, which allows me to be more confident and relaxed while doing a speech. I think I improved a lot from the beginning to the end, and I am pleased with my overall delivery in the IDEA Speech. However