Brief Summary
This course is all about speaking with gestures! It teaches you how to use different kinds of gestures to make your public speaking more interesting and engaging, helping you connect better with your audience. Plus, you'll learn to build your confidence too!
Key Points
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Using Planned Gestures
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Harnessing Unplanned Gestures
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Using Facial Gestures
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Using Descriptive Gestures
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Using Emphatic Gestures
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Avoiding the Dangers of Gestures
Learning Outcomes
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Master the use of planned and unplanned gestures
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Understand how to use facial expressions effectively
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Learn to perform descriptive and emphatic gestures
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Recognize and avoid common pitfalls when using gestures
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Gain confidence in public speaking settings
About This Course
This speaking lesson focuses on the use of gestures. Gestures can liven up and grab the attention of your audience.
Public speaking is a way for you to build confidence in the way you speak and to feel comfortable speaking in front of a group of people. Anyone can achieve this confidence with the right tools and practice.
We’ve designed eight classes that pinpoint eight different speaking methods that will help you achieve success in public speaking. This class encompasses the sixth of eight speaking methods in the Ovation Public Speaking tutorial. The subject is Speaking with Gestures.
The class is designed to aid you in speaking with gestures, so that you can grab the attention of the audience and hold it. This class will benefit any student who wants to excel at public speaking at school or also any business professionals who want to excel and build their career.
Highlights of this course:
Using Planned Gestures
Harnessing Unplanned Gestures
Using Facial Gestures
Using Descriptive Gestures
Using Emphatic Gestures
Avoiding the Dangers of Gestures
Includes the following:
The way this class is structured is by dividing it into two parts. Each part will have video lectures first. Throughout the video lectures there are interactive practice sessions, practical suggestions, and tips on ways you can practice and improve for each point. You are invited to pause the video during the lecture and practice the point. At the end of each part, there are a series of exercises to help you practice and gain experience.
This comprehensive course can be taken at the pace of the student. It requires a basic understanding of English, and a desire to improve your speaking ability.
Use gestures effectively
Use descriptive gestures
Use emphatic gestures
Prajna K.
waaw. good one