Have a Go at Public Speaking
How does the thought of speaking in public
make you feel?
Do you feel like . . . . . .
THIS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Let’s Chat
Have you ever done public speaking?
How do you feel about speaking in public?
What do you want to learn to day?
Tip No. 1
Remember the Scouts Motto - Be Prepared
Make sure that:
• Before the presentation you have practiced,
practiced, practiced – try out he speech on you
friends and or family
• You have the time, date and location of where
you are speaking
• You know exactly what you are speaking about
how long you are speaking and who the audience is
• You have a contact phone number
• If you have equipment there is some one to help
you with it
Tip No. 1
Remember the Scouts Motto - Be Prepared
What else can you think of to be prepared?
Tip No. 2
Before the big event
Make sure that you:
• Arrive early (at least 30 minutes early)
• Have help to set up the laptop and the
presentation
• Get any hand outs or props ready
• Check all the equipment is working
• Get a coffee and relax!
Tip No. 4
How to beat those butterflies in your stomach
You are about to start but you are feeling nervous here are some
tricks that may help:
• Make sure you have practiced before the
day of your speech.
• When speaking try looking at the friendliest
faces in the audience and make eye contact
• Relax and smile.
• Slow down, take a deep breath and breath slowly
• It is OK to let the audience know you are nervous
• Use power point slides with pictures and people
will look at that and not you so much
Tip No. 5
Ready Set Go
At the start of your presentation you should:
• Introduce yourself
• Warm up the audience with an ice breaker
Ice Breakers for a small audience
• If you were a comic strip character,
who would you be and why?
• Ask everyone to say three things
about themself make two true
and one a lie. Everyone else has
to guess the lie
Who wants to have a go at running an icebreaker now?
Ice Let’s
breakers
for
a
large
audience
start the rpesentaion
• Get everyone to introduce them
selves to the person on their right.
• Get people to tell the person next
to them one thing people do not
know about them
• Get people to do something physical
such us rolling shoulders, shaking
hands stretching etc.
Tip No. 6
Keep the audience listening
Ways to keep the audience listening to the speech include:
• Make eye contact with people in the audience
• Talk to you audience not at them
• Smile and be friendly and try to think you
are having an interesting chat with people
• Don’t talk too fast and pause sometimes to collect
your thoughts
• Remember to breath
Tip No. 7
Move Baby Move
If you just stand in one spot people will start to lose attention
remember to:
• Show some movement – move around
the stage a bit
• Talk with you hands use gestures to make points
• Use your head and facial expressions
• Make sure you change positions sometimes
Tips No. 6 & 7
Move Baby Move & Listening
YOUR TURN!
Who wants to show us your moves – have a go –
speak to us?? about an issue that is important to
you
Tip No. 8
WAKE UP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
You can tell when people are getting bored because they begin
to move in their seats and they can stop looking at you!!!!
Some tricks to include:
•
use props in your speech including posters,
toys, hats etc
• Ask questions for the audience to answer
• Pass around a bag of lollies
• Change the way you are speaking sometimes
talk a bit louder sometimes lower your voice.
Tip No. 8
WAKE UP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
What other ideas can you think of to stop
people getting bored
Tip No. 8
Questions???????????
Giving people the chance to ask questions is really important but
when and how often? The decision is up to you ideas include:
• Leaving time at the end of the speech
for people to ask questions
• Stopping at different times in the speech
and asking if there are any questions
• Or you ask the audience questions
( good way of keeping their attention)
Which one of these ideas do you like?
Tip No. 9
Answers !!!!!!!
OOOPs now you have to answer the question here are some tips:
• Know the topic you are talking about
• Make eye contact with person who asked
you the question
• Repeat the question so everyone in the
audience can hear it
• Make people feel comfortable by saying
“That’s a good question" or, "I’m glad you asked that”
• Answer clearly and briefly
• If you don’t know the answer don’t worry
we can’t know everything
Have a go at Q & A
Tip No 10
My work here is done!
Now you have finished your speech there are a few
things that you might want to say before you leave
including:
• Thank everyone for listening
• Give out notes if you have them
• Let people know where they can get
more information about the topic if
they are interested.
Writing a presentation for your group
Here are some ideas for writing your speech
1. Decide what you want the audience to learn about your group.
2. Understand your audience – who is your audience what do they need
to know and why
3. Deciding what should go in your speech – try brainstorming with other
members in your group. Ideas could include:
• What is self advocacy
• What are self advocacy groups
• Details about your group e.g. name, history where and
when you meet
• What you do at your meetings
• Things your group are working on
• Issues you care about
• Why your group is important
• How people can support self advocacy and more
Writing a presentation for your group
• Once you have written your speech it is important to practice
it to make sure it is not too long or too short
• Get feedback from other people about what they think about
the speech
• Decide if you are using PowerPoint, photos, videos in your
presentation
GOOD LUCK !!!!!!