Speaking skill explaination
SPEAKING SKILLS
It is our natural mode of communication through which exchanging our ideas, share information and express feelings. Speaking means making a speech to an individual or a group of people for the purpose of delivering and transmitting our ideas to others.
PURPOSES OF INFORMATIVE SPEAKING
Informative speaking offers an opportunity to practice researching, writing, organizing, and speaking skills. You will learn how to discover and present information clearly. If you take the time to thoroughly research and understand your topic, to create a clearly organized speech, and to practice an enthusiastic, dynamic style of delivery, you can be an effective "teacher" during your informative speech. Finally, you will get a chance to practice a type of speaking you will undoubtedly use later in your professional career.
The purpose of the informative speech is to provide interesting, useful, and unique information to your audience. By dedicating yourself to the goals of providing information and appealing to your audience, you can take a positive step toward succeeding in your efforts as an informative speaker.
KINDS OF SPEAKING SKILLS
Informative speaking is of four kinds, briefing, goodwill, instruction and report.
1. Briefing:
In this type of speech, the speaker explains and elaborates the background of any problem or matter and then presents the present situation to inform and make people aware of the present state of affairs.
2. Instruction:
This type of speech is most of the time is used by the seniors and the superiors in an organization. They instruct the employees and the juniors to make their performance better and to accomplish the tasks in the best possible ways.
3. Goodwill:
Speech is also used to build goodwill because no business can be run without building goodwill. Such kind of speech is delivered by the firm’s representative to build confidence among people and to win customers.
4. Report:
This type of speech is used in meetings, seminars, conferences where a person reads the reports of his organization to inform as well as inspire people about the performance of his organization.
MAIN PARTS OF INFORMATIVE SPEECH
There are three parts of informative speech.
1. Introduction
2. Body
3. Summary
1. Introduction:
The introduction sets the tone of the entire speech. The introduction should be brief and to-the-point as it accomplishes several important tasks. As in any social situation, your audience makes strong assumptions about you during the first eight or ten seconds of your speech. For this reason, you need to start solidly and launch the topic clearly.
To get the attention of your audience, you may start your speech in the following ways:
i. Use a Quotation:
The use of quotation may give a good start to your speech and inspire your audience to listen to you with interest. You may also use an anecdote, a joke or a story relating to your speech.
ii. Purpose Sentence:
Start your speech with stating the purpose of your speech.
iii. Question Opening:
You can get the attention of your listeners by asking a question that may make your audience think about your offer or view points.
2. Body:
The body contains the bulk of information in your speech and needs to be clearly organized. Without clear organization, the audience will probably forget your information, main points, perhaps even your thesis. Some simple strategies will help you create a clear, memorable speech.
To organize the main section of your speech you may choose one of the following organizational plans:
i. Topical organization:
You can divide your speech into certain topics. In this way you can elaborate each topic separately without mixing it with others.
ii. Chronological organization:
In this form of organization the speaker presents and describes the events and incidents in the chronological order according to their happening i.e., past, present, future.
3. Summary:
In this part of your speech, you should try to summaries the whole message that you have conveyed. In this way your audience may recall the whole message. At this stage never go against the ideas that you have already described in your speech.