Academic Spoken Communication

Academic speaking and listening. Face-to-face communication, public speaking, and demonstration speeches. Interviews, discussions, debates, and impromptu speeches. Preparation of speech outlines and PowerPoint presentations. Verbal and nonverbal communication.

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“Proper planning and preparation prevents poor performance” ― Stephen Keague, The Little Red Handbook of Public Speaking and Presenting

Important Vocabulary

IMPORTANT! Here are the exam words that you MUST know. Most of these words have a few meanings. Some words can be nouns and verbs, with a few meanings; you must know all the meanings. Click on each word and learn; see how the words are used in sentences:

1. Animated
2. Announcement (see in Arabic)
3. Audience
4. Body language
5. Breaking news
6. Consensus (see in Arabic)
7. Consequences
8. Constitution
9. Debate
10. Democracy
11. Discussion
12. Effective
13. Energetic
14. Facial expressions
15. Facts
16. Firm
17. Font
18. Gesture
19. Historical reference
20. Hook
21. Host
22. Humour
23. Imitate
24. Individualism
25. Inspire
26. Introduce
27. Lecture
28. Posture
29. Presentation
30. Prominent
31. Prop
32. Publication
33. Quote
34. React
35. Reasoning
36. Slides
37. Slouch (see in Arabic)
38. Speech
39. Statement
40. Statistics
41. Storytelling
42. Vision
43. Vote

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NON-VERBAL COMMUNICATION

LISTENING

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Course Outline
Public Speaking
Listening
Non-Verbal Communication
Listening Test 1
Listening Test 2
Presentation Topics
Presentation Outline (Example)
Demonstration Speech
Demonstration Speech Outline
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Quote of the Day

True enthusiasm is a fine feeling whose flash I admire where-ever I see it.
Charlotte Bronte
(1816-1855)

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QUOTES FOR DISCUSSION

“If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up.”

J.M. Power

“What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.”

Geothe

“Vision without action is daydream. Action without vision is nightmare.”

Japanese Proverb

“In any situation, the best thing you can do is the right thing; the next best thing you can do is the wrong thing; the worst thing you can do is nothing.”

Theodore Roosevelt

“If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a chance of being a prophet.”

Isaac B. Singer

“Keep on going and the chances are you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I have never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down.”

Charles F. Kettering

“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”

Mark Twain

“A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.”

Hugh Downs

“Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination.”

Roy Goodman

“What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.”

Mark Twain

“The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed.”

Richard B. Sheridan

“Take the first step in faith. You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.”

Dr Martin Luther King Jr.

“The world is more malleable than you think and it’s waiting for you to hammer it into shape.”

Bono

“Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.”

Stephen R. Covey

“People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things. When they believe in themselves they have the first secret of success.”

Norman Vincent Peale

“Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.”

Sir Winston Churchill

“Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes but don’t quit.”

Conrad Hilton

“Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.”

Samuel Beckett

“Winners lose much more often than losers. So if you keep losing but you’re still trying, keep it up! You’re right on track.”

Matthew Keith Groves

“In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.”

Thomas Jefferson

I’ve learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.”

Maya Angelou

“The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.”

Lap Tzu, Chinese Philosopher

“Dream big and dare to fail.”

Norman Vaughan

“Keep your face to the sunshine and you can never see the shadow.”

Helen Keller

“Once you choose hope, anything’s possible.”

Christopher Reeve

If you don't listen, you're never gonna learn.

Frank Iero

Think before you speak. Read before you think.

― Fran Lebowitz

Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.

―Winston Churchill

Sometimes not speaking says more than all the words in the world.

― Colleen Hoover

Almost nothing need be said when you have eyes.

― Tarjei Vesaas

We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.

―Epictetus

“You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.”

Zig Zaglar

“Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.”

Napoleon Hill

I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.

―Ernest Hemingway

The first rule of my speaking is: listen! ― Larry King

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