1. Public speaking

2. Basic Laws of public speaking Minimize your nervousness. Connect with the audience. Adapt and be confident. Speak to be remembered for all the right reasons. Speak as an authority.

3. Body Language: what does it say about you? Always sit up tall while addressing your public. Slouching tells people you’re lazy and don’t care. Don’t move or fidgit while filming. Movement is distracting to the viewer. Be aware of your hands. Make sure your hands express what your voice is saying. Keep facial expressions appropriate. Your public will see everything you do.

4. The Voice Speak from your diaphram. Speak slow and clear. Pronunciation. Varying the pitch.

5. Things to remember about the camera The camera “hears” everything. Especially noises close to it. Look at the camera while speaking. Be confident.

6. Some definitions Rhetoric-the art or science of all specialized literary uses of language in prose or verse. Oration-a formal public speech, especially one delivered on a special occasion, as on an anniversary, at a funeral, or at academic exercises. Fluency means to read with proper speed, accuracy and expression.

7. Why is fluency important? Having good fluency allows your audience to understand you more easily. You sound more professional when you read with good fluency. You keep the attention of the audience when you read with good fluency.

8. How to attain good fluency practice reading a passage over and over until you get good at it. practice in front of an audience. increase your vocabulary. learn phonics.

9. Famous American Speakers Martin Luther King, Jr. John Fitzgerald Kennedy Franklin Delano Roosevelt Maya Angelou Malcolm X Eleanor Roosevelt Abraham Lincoln

10. “One hit wonders” Halle Berry Oscar acceptance speech Condeleeza Rice Republican Address Obama Inaugural Address Barbara Bush commencement address

11. Martin Luther King, Jr. – “I have a Dream” “When we let freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual, ‘Free at last! free at last! thank God Almighty, we are free at last!’”

12. Abraham Lincoln – Gettysburg Address “Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.”