Scared of Public Speaking?
If you think you are too shy and not cut out for public speaking, listen to this beautiful TED talk by Susan Cain on The Power of Introverts. And if you think your fear of public speaking is the worst in the world, listen to Australian singer and performer Megan Washington talk about hers, and how she gets around it.
Learn these 7 Little Tricks to Speak in Public with No Fear. Read this wikiHow tutorial on How to Reduce Stress Before Giving a Speech.
Listen to this 20 min lecture by a social psychologist Amy Cuddy about what your body language says before you even open your mouth and how you can train yourself to appear AND feel more powerful. Use this worksheet to describe the high- and low-power poses she used in her research.
Tools & Visuals
How NOT to Do PowerPoint: Comedian Don McMillan presents all the pitfalls.
Prezi: An attractive alternative to PowerPoint, this cloud-based software allows is perfect for dynamic presentations and story-telling.
Creating and Using Presentation Note Cards: A tutorial.
Improve Your Pronunciation
Use this color vowel chart to visually remember English vowels. Read more about it here. Go to the OUP English Sounds Pronunciation Chart for more practice with vowels and consonants.
Minimal Pair Practice & Quizzes
Listen and Repeat Machine: Allows you to control the number of repeats and pause.
Train Your Accent: An accent reduction site to improve your English pronunciation.
Check out the methods and devices Professor Higgins invented whileslaving away to teach pronunciation to lovely Eliza Doolittle in the musical My Fair Lady. See also how Gene Kelly and Donald O'Connor dance their way through the s, r, ch and ou sounds in the musical Singin' in the Rain. Contributed by Ruth Dahan.
11 common mispronunciations from dictionary.com.
Selected Presentations
Learn from the best models from this list of 100 Best TED Talks.
Still afraid of large audiences? Listen to this little Vietnamese boy speak about The Power Behind a Smile, contributed by Phong.
A Tale of Two Brains: A 13-minute excerpt from Mark Gungor's show Laugh Your Way to a Better Marriage. Contributed by Tamila Kushnir.
Oral Presentation Tips
Download the Guidelines and Evaluation Rubric for your presentation.
Organizing your oral presentation: Tips for college students
10 Most Common Rookie Mistakes in Public Speaking from Prezi
5 Lessons from Obama's Debate Trainers to Improve Your Public Speaking Skills
Use this worksheet (and answer key) to find out the tips for sounding intelligent, powerful, polished, articulate, and confident from a speech trainer, Carol Fleming. Read more advice on how to be more well-spoken from wikiHow.
If you read about our Martin Luther King Jr. Project, you know that great speakers are also masters of voice, melody, and rhythm. Listen to Barack Obama in the video Yes, We Can to see if he is one of the masters.
Nervous about being asked a hard question from the audience? Read these tips on handling Q&A sessions.
How to Tell a Story: Advice from NPR's Scott Simon
If you think you are too shy and not cut out for public speaking, listen to this beautiful TED talk by Susan Cain on The Power of Introverts. And if you think your fear of public speaking is the worst in the world, listen to Australian singer and performer Megan Washington talk about hers, and how she gets around it.
Learn these 7 Little Tricks to Speak in Public with No Fear. Read this wikiHow tutorial on How to Reduce Stress Before Giving a Speech.
Listen to this 20 min lecture by a social psychologist Amy Cuddy about what your body language says before you even open your mouth and how you can train yourself to appear AND feel more powerful. Use this worksheet to describe the high- and low-power poses she used in her research.
Tools & Visuals
How NOT to Do PowerPoint: Comedian Don McMillan presents all the pitfalls.
Prezi: An attractive alternative to PowerPoint, this cloud-based software allows is perfect for dynamic presentations and story-telling.
Creating and Using Presentation Note Cards: A tutorial.
Improve Your Pronunciation
Use this color vowel chart to visually remember English vowels. Read more about it here. Go to the OUP English Sounds Pronunciation Chart for more practice with vowels and consonants.
Minimal Pair Practice & Quizzes
Listen and Repeat Machine: Allows you to control the number of repeats and pause.
Train Your Accent: An accent reduction site to improve your English pronunciation.
Check out the methods and devices Professor Higgins invented whileslaving away to teach pronunciation to lovely Eliza Doolittle in the musical My Fair Lady. See also how Gene Kelly and Donald O'Connor dance their way through the s, r, ch and ou sounds in the musical Singin' in the Rain. Contributed by Ruth Dahan.
11 common mispronunciations from dictionary.com.
Selected Presentations
Learn from the best models from this list of 100 Best TED Talks.
Still afraid of large audiences? Listen to this little Vietnamese boy speak about The Power Behind a Smile, contributed by Phong.
A Tale of Two Brains: A 13-minute excerpt from Mark Gungor's show Laugh Your Way to a Better Marriage. Contributed by Tamila Kushnir.
Oral Presentation Tips
Download the Guidelines and Evaluation Rubric for your presentation.
Organizing your oral presentation: Tips for college students
10 Most Common Rookie Mistakes in Public Speaking from Prezi
5 Lessons from Obama's Debate Trainers to Improve Your Public Speaking Skills
Use this worksheet (and answer key) to find out the tips for sounding intelligent, powerful, polished, articulate, and confident from a speech trainer, Carol Fleming. Read more advice on how to be more well-spoken from wikiHow.
If you read about our Martin Luther King Jr. Project, you know that great speakers are also masters of voice, melody, and rhythm. Listen to Barack Obama in the video Yes, We Can to see if he is one of the masters.
Nervous about being asked a hard question from the audience? Read these tips on handling Q&A sessions.
How to Tell a Story: Advice from NPR's Scott Simon