Part 2: What I Learned About Speeches In My Public Speaking and Debates Class (I am 8 Years and 5 Months Old)

Do you want to know what I learned about speeches in my public speaking class in Part 2? Well, you came to the right place. Anyway, lets move on.

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So, first things first, here are some Vocabulary Words that you need to know in speeches.

Public = Audience

Listen = Hear

Pace = Speed you are Talking At

Props = Speech Items

Poems = Short Speech Text

Speech = 3-Part Text

Hand Gestures = Hand Motions

Pitch = How High or Low your Voice Is

Details = Pieces of Information

Story-Telling = Telling a Story

Volume = How Loud or Soft your Voice Is

Posture = How you Stand

Charts = Table with Information

Clear = Fluent

Ethos = Using Credibility / Example: Using a Celebrity in a Commercial to make them want to Buy It

Pathos = Using Emotion / Example: An Animal Shelter Commercial Saying that the Animals there are Sad so that the People want to Help the Animals

Logos = Using Logic and Facts / Example: A Medical Company Uses this Product by 99% so that People want to Buy It

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Now let's do some Tongue Twisters to warm up our tongue to say your future speeches better.

Try to say these Tongue Twisters 3 times fast.

1.) Red Lorry Yellow Lorry

2.) A Mix Tin of Mixed Biscuits

3.) Toy Boat

Now do the same for my own Tongue Twisters which I either came up with it myself, or I knew it already.

1.) How Much Wood can a Woodchuck Chuck if a Woodchuck could Chuck Wood

2.) Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis

3.) Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious

I chose to present the 2nd one: Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis

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Now I will tell you some tips to get hold of your Power of Voice.

1.) Open your mouth wide

2.) Ease = Relaxed

3.) Look Forward

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Now I will tell you what Body Language is in a speech.

• It is a Non-Verbal Language

• It Tells the Audience how you Feel

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Now I will tell you what a Proper Posture looks like.

• Stand Straight and Tall

• Make your Shoulders Relaxed

• Have an Open Chest

• Put your Feet One Foot Apart and Plant your Feet to the Ground

• Put your Hands at your Side / Do Hand Gestures

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Now I will tell you some things about Vocal Expressions.

• Changes in Pitch to Show how we Feel

• Examples of Feelings for High Pitch: Excitement, Happiness, Angry

• Examples of Feelings for Low Pitch: Sadness, Seriousness, Bored

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