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Oral Communications

This document provides information on oral communication skills. It defines oral communication as expressing ideas through spoken words and nonverbal cues. There are three elements of oral communication - content, organization, and delivery. It then outlines nine steps for planning a successful oral presentation, including determining the purpose, analyzing the audience, researching the topic, organizing the presentation, using visual aids, practicing, and assessing the presentation. It provides examples of activities to develop listening and oral presentation skills.

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Oral Communications

This document provides information on oral communication skills. It defines oral communication as expressing ideas through spoken words and nonverbal cues. There are three elements of oral communication - content, organization, and delivery. It then outlines nine steps for planning a successful oral presentation, including determining the purpose, analyzing the audience, researching the topic, organizing the presentation, using visual aids, practicing, and assessing the presentation. It provides examples of activities to develop listening and oral presentation skills.

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Oral

Communications
Oral Communication

• Meetings
• Conference calls
• Telephone calls
• Presentations
• Video or audio recordings
• Giving Directions
• Other forms of oral communication
Oral Communication Defined

• Expressing ideas and information as well as


influencing others through the spoken word
• Can also include nonverbal communication
• Important for any career, whether you use it in
informal conversations or business presentations
• Key Concepts: speaker, message, channel, receiver,
feedback, noise, context
Three Elements of Oral Communication

• Content: information conveyed in presentation

• Organization: structure of presentation

• Delivery: means of communication


Steps for Planning a Successful
Oral Presentation
1. Determine a general purpose
2. Analyze the audience
3. Choose a specific purpose
4. Research the topic
5. Organize and outline the presentation
6. Visual aids
7. Practice
8. Delivery
9. Assessment
Step 1
Determine a General Purpose
• Purposes:
• Inform
• Persuade
• Entertain/move
Step 2
Analyze the Audience
• Relate your message to your audience’s
knowledge, beliefs, and interests
• Study demographic data
• Consider size, setting, and prior disposition toward
the topic and yourself
• Important to present the most relevant information
while avoiding offense
Step 3
Specific Purpose
• Narrow your topic
• Ex:
• General purpose: inform
• Specific purpose: Provide information about the current
issues affecting Georgia agriculture
• Should be explicitly stated in introduction
Step 4
Research Topic
• Gathering facts, figures, testimony, and examples
• Establishes credibility
• Competence: speaker’s knowledge of subject
• Character: speaker’s trustworthiness
Step 5
Organizing and Outlining
• Introduction
• Attention-getter
• Thesis
• Preview statement
• Body: 2-5 main points
• Conclusion
• Summary of main points
• Strong concluding statement
Step 5 continued
Organizing and Outlining
• Organizational patterns
• Chronological
• Spatial
• Topical
• Cause-effect
• Problem-solution
• Connectives
• Transitions, internal previews and summaries, signposts
Step 6
Visual Aids
• Should add to the presentation
• Visible to audience
• Talk to audience, not visual aid
• Explain visual aids to audience
• Can be PowerPoint, graph, chart, DVD,
transparency, people, etc.
Step 7
Practice
• Delivery methods:
• Manuscript
• Memorization
• Extemporaneous
• Impromptu
• Be sure to practice using visual aids
• Time your presentation
Step 8 continued
Delivery
• Voice: volume, pitch, pauses, articulation,
pronunciation
• 60% of meaning from nonverbal cues
• Gestures, eye contact, posture, facial expressions
• Physical appearance
• Environment
• Being late and rushing through presentation
Step 9
• Ask for feedback from theAssess
audience
• Identify strengths and weaknesses of your presentation

Slides 4-18 were used from CTAE Resource Foundation Skills lesson plans
Oral DIRECTIONS Activities
• Developing Listening Skills Activity
• Developing Listening Skills Handout
• Developing Skills for Understanding Handout

• Following Directions Handouts


• Students complete three activities about following directions.

• Telephone Etiquette Project


Oral Communication Project
• Prepare an oral presentation based on the handouts
given – Informative Oral Presentation, Grading
Rubric, and Self Reflection.

• Each student will present their topic to the class

• Classmates will evaluate each presenter and observe and


record nonverbal communication gestures used during
the presentation.
Written Communication Activities
• Literal Writing Activity
Written DIRECTIONS ACTIVITY

• Use literal (precise) writing for accurate


information in giving directions

• Make a Peanut Butter and Jelly Sandwich


or
• Wrap a Gift

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