How to speak boldly in public

1. PUBLIC SPEAKING (ORAL
PRESENTATIONS)
Dr. Rajesh Lankapalli
Lecturer in the dept. of English
Mail id: bobbylrajesh@gmail.com
Contact: 9676652125
“There are three things to aim at in public speaking: first, to
get into your subject, then to get your subject into yourself,
and lastly, to get your subject into the heart of your
audience.” –
Alexander Gregg
Language Lab by Dr. Rajesh L is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International
License.

2. Definitions:
 Delivering an address to a public
audience.
 Formal way of speaking with
communication purpose
 Expressing ideas in a structured
manner

3. Overcoming Fear
 Successful or professional speaker need
to overcome the fear
 People never fear in informal setups but
they do in formal setups
 Choose your mode of presentation (Ppt,
Black board, OHP, Handouts, Charts
etc.)
 Understand that fear is a common
phenomena that is experienced by many
 Fear doesn’t come with English
language (whose mother tongue is
English will also fear the same)

4. Aspects Making You Frighten in
Public Places:
 Humiliation
 Unfamiliarity with situation (that
something would go wrong)
 Stage fright (facing crowd)
 Anxiety

5. How to get rid of fear
 Stage fear: Visualize earlier
 Think positive (think its an opportunity
to grow big, have a good image of
yourself)
 Take initial movements to get rid of
fear
 Prepare well the concepts
◦ Know your subject
◦ Believe/confident in you subject
◦ You’re the centre of your presentation

6. Reducing Anxiety
 Visualize your delivery of talk
 Know your subject
 Respect preparation
 Practice preparation
 Relax your mind
 Respect your audience
 Breath in and out (inhale and exhale )

7. How to become the professional
presenter:
 View the venue (get familiar and
rehearsal)
 Welcome the audience (greet, smile,
introduce topic and create interest)
 Master your material (practice, extra
information, be thorough and time
limit)
 Clear your mind
 Visualize yourself

8. Some Tips:
 Realize that people want a winning
leader (authoritative and decision
maker)
 Avoid apologies (never say I couldn’t
prepare)
 Focus on your message (not the
medium; never bother the language as
you can not use the language
artificially, you suppose to be learning
language to use it in a natural way)

9.  Turn nervousness in to positive
energy (channelize)
 Gain experience (through practice
/volunteer /observing/ initiation part by
part)
Main objectives:
To create the necessity of talk(create
interest and clear picture of talk )
To educate (information or teach)
To provoke (to stimulate or impress)
To influence (to convince or persuade)

10. Structure your Speech:
 Make three to four major points
 Keep audience interest by anecdotes
and start well (quotation, joke, real time
incidents, story)
 Summarize your main pint in an outline
 End with strong positive point
 Tell audience what your going to tell
them and then start (introduction)
 At the end tell them again what you have
told them.(conclusion)

11.  Way of Presentation:
◦ Perfect body language is very important to
give good oral presentation
◦ By being conscious you can rectify (relax
or smile)
◦ Speak in natural tone
◦ Slow down your body movements
◦ Eye contact (don’t leave anyone)
◦ Body gestures (don’t hide behind podium)

12.  Body language
◦ Posture
◦ Eye contact
◦ Facial expression
◦ Hand gestures
◦ Appropriate dress
 Voice quality
◦ Volume/tone
◦ Inflection
◦ Articulation
◦ pitch

13. Body language does and
don'ts:
 Does
◦ Face the audience
◦ Look at each person in the audience
◦ Glance at notes or screen when ever
required
◦ Smile
 Don'ts
◦ Don’t hold anything
◦ Do not read directly from your notes or
system
◦ Do not put your hands in pockets
◦ Don’t keep on looking at the screen

14. Voice quality: does and
don'ts:
 Does:
◦ Speak loud and clear, enunciate well
◦ Speak slowly but with confidence
◦ Emphasize important points
◦ Make a transition to the next speaker (group
presentation)
 Don'ts:
◦ Racing through the speech
◦ Reading directly form the notes
◦ Talking too fast or deliberately too slow
◦ Mumbling
◦ Avoid repetition
◦ Do not take too long pauses but when ever
necessary only

15.  Do not shout but speak loud
 Do not start immediately at your turn
 Do not mismatch the pitch and tone with
the context of the presentation
All the best, Practice well and become
successful public speakers and
professional presenters
THANK YOU
“90% of how well the talk will go is determined before the speaker
steps on the platform.” – Somers White
“It takes one hour of preparation for each minute of presentation
time.” – Wayne
Burgraff