Sooner or later, every person has to speak in public. Someone does it regularly, for someone it is a single test. Regardless of whether public speaking becomes a necessity for you, it will be useful to master the basics of public speaking in order to feel confident in such situations.
It is necessary
Desire to speak in public, literature, mirror, listeners
Instructions
Step 1
Find a topic for your talk. It is usually recommended for the first experiments to take questions in which you understand very well. However, if you do not know the topic, but are very interested in it, this is also the key to success. Remember also that you have to do something new in the topic you are taking. It is not necessary to invent something exceptional, it can just be a new look at the known facts or a special way of interpreting them.
Step 2
Find sources of information on your topic. Find all the valid points of view on it, evaluate them and determine which one is closer to you. Or offer yours. If your goal is only to inform the audience, you can limit yourself to listing opinions and describing their pros and cons. Also, try to find interesting facts about the topic that will help make your performance livelier and more varied.
Step 3
Write your speech. In the introduction, summarize the relevance of the topic in general and specifically to your audience. Outline the purpose of your speech.
Step 4
In the main part, provide all the theses and provide them with a sufficient number of arguments. Spice up the serious exploratory part of the presentation with real-life examples or vivid imaginative sketches from works of art. Such digressions will keep the audience from getting bored.
Step 5
In conclusion, summarize your speech, list the main conclusions. Here, as a memorable point, an original example or a quote that fits the meaning also does not hurt.
Step 6
Practice speaking the text. Write it down on paper, in color and font size, highlighting the key points. Say the text out loud several times, first peeping in the notes, and then focusing only on the selected phrases. When the text is already remembered, work in front of the mirror on the voice, posture and facial expression. Try to speak loudly and calmly. Breathe in fast enough so that your voice does not break off at the end of the phrase. Highlight the most important points in intonation and show emotions both with voice and facial expressions. Use gestures when such an inner need arises, but do not overdo it. After a few practice sessions, present your text in front of people you know and take into account their comments.
Step 7
When speaking to an audience, focus not on how you look and how your voice sounds, but on the importance of the message you want to convey to your audience. The more you are inspired by the topic of the conversation, the more you will be captured by others around you. Try to make eye contact with them (you don't have to look everyone in the eye, just look around the audience as a whole and look less at your notes) and create a trusting, “open” atmosphere. If such an impulse comes from you, you will receive a response from the audience.
