Description
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- The second edition of
Speaking for Speeches: Skills for Presentations
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- is updated with even more videos and speech ideas. This interactive, accessible three-level series is specifically designed to develop the public speaking skills of English language learners at the high-beginning to intermediate level. Students will build the essential confidence they need as a speaker through creating their own interesting and fun presentations. This series will prepare students for any kind of speaking from casual descriptions of personal experiences to more formal, research-based presentations. Central to each lesson is an original presentation organized, written, and delivered by a student presenter. With its multi-media approach, the series helps students acquire practical speech communication skills that they can use throughout their lives in a positive, structured process.
Features
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- Wide variety of speech topics ranging from informative to entertaining personal stories
- Scaffolded exercises and activities allowing speakers to organize their ideas and prepare their presentations
- Abundant sample speeches and presentation ideas
- Guided speech patterns with useful sentence structures
- Repeated recycling of high-frequency vocabulary
- Unscripted student interviews presenting natural speech patterns
- QR code links to original presentations given by talented student presenters
