Public Speaking: A Crash Course on Elocution and Confident Speech
Offered By: Skillshare
Course Description
Overview
Do you feel nervous speaking in front of large crowds, reading aloud, or even just leading company meetings? This course will teach you the essential skills of elocution (or speaking clearly and confidently).
This course is great for new managers, actors, college students, and non-native English speakers. By the end of this course you'll have the tools necessary to:
- Project to a large audience
- Read aloud with clarity and confidence
- Enunciate words with proper emphasis
- Use inflection to stress important points
- Utilize gesture to keep an audience engaged
- Give a speech that is interesting and easy to understand
In order to make your practice easier, this course includes fun elocution exercises, sample speeches, and poems which you can use to refine your skills.
Syllabus
- Elocution Intro
- Inflection
- Projection
- Clarity and Speed
- Enunciation Exercises
Taught by
Ashley
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