Friday, January 21, 2011

Tips to Perform an English Speech

In Indonesia, English is a foreign language. As a result, some Indonesian students think that it’s too difficult to deliver an English Speech. There are many challenges in conveying a speech. The speaker should talk in front of the audience and I guess there must be a lot of pressure. Besides, the speakers have to pay attention to the pronunciation and the material presented in the speech.

Here are some tips to perform a good English speech from EEL:

1. Choose the proper theme
You can choose an interesting theme that you think easier to convey. Then, you have to enrich your knowledge about the related theme that you’ll present in the English speech.

2. Prepare the speech text
Since English is neither the first language nor the second language for us, you have to prepare an English speech text to minimize our mistake in presenting the speech. You don’t have to memorize the whole text content, but you need to comprehend the speech text content. 

3. Practice and ask for advice from your friends, parents or teachers.
Practice makes perfect. You can practice your speech in front of your friends, families, or teachers, then you can ask for critic, advice and suggestion from them about your speech.

4. Use gesture
Gesture or body language is important to support your speech. It is also used to reduce your nervous when you’re speaking in the public. You can start practice your gesture while speaking in front of a mirror.

5. Anticipate the audience response
Somehow, we think that what we say or what we do isn’t funny. But, it’s going to be different when you speak in the public. When you’re speaking in the public, audience may give response which isn’t like what we are expected. So, you have to be ready about that.

That’s all EEL tips to perform a good English speech. If you have more suggestions, please write on the comment box bellow. Thanks

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