Informative Speaking

Nonverbal Strategies:

• MAINTAIN EYE CONTACT
• By making eye contact with various people in your audience, you can give them the impression that you are speaking with them individually

Nonverbal Strategies:

• Use Appropriate FACIAL EXPRESSIONS and HAND GESTURES
• Concentrate on the interest you have in your subject
• Use them to add to your speech…
• Not DISTRACT

Nonverbal Strategies:

• Use GOOD POSTURE
• Stand up straight with both feet on the ground
• Avoid rocking back and forth
• Avoid pacing needlessly
• DO NOT LOCK YOUR KNEES

Audiovisuals

• Use will need an AUDIOVISUAL to accompany your speech
• Examples:
• audiotape
• videotape
• chart
• table
• graph
• poster
• model
• pamphlet
• etc,etc

Audiovisuals

• They can help:
• clarify information

and

• hold your audience’s attention

Remember…

• Make sure your audiovisual’s graphics, words, etc. are large enough to be seen by your entire audience
• The audience’s attention will shift its focus from you to your audiovisual…

Thus, DO NOT show your audiovisual until you are ready to use it in your speech

Remember…

• Your audiovisual will take time to introduce, present, and explain
• Your audiovisual time WILL be figured into your overall speech time
• Your audiovisual time CANNOT be the majority of your speech time