Extemporaneous Speaking

Prepared and practiced but not written or memorized.

Use key-word outlines. Allows the speaker to adjust and
adapt to the audience as you observe their responses.
Because this speaking requires mastery of subject and
confidence to speak directly with listener,
extemporaneous speakers can earn higher marks for
ethos.
Advantages of Extemporaneous Speaking
1. Leaves the speaker free to develop and maintain
direct eye contact.
2. Leaves speaker free to use body dynamics and
gestures.
3. Promotes an oral/spontaneous style of delivery
4. More conversational
5. Allows the speaker a better opportunity to adjust
and adapt to audience/listener.
Disadvantage of Extemporaneous Speaking
1. Speaker tends to use less precise language
2. Hard to observe time limits.
3. Speakers tend to say things they did not intend.
4. Speakers get a false sense of security.
5. The speaker tends to have a jerky, halting, nonfluent speaking style.
ADVANTAGES OF EXTEMPORANEOUS
DELIVERY
Delivery power
Audience rapport
Flexible wording
Audience analysis
Ongoing adjustment
CHALLENGES TO EXTEMPORANEOUS
DELIVERY
Anxiety
Time management
Distracting mannerisms
Vocalized pauses
Repeated phrases
Idea clarity
Audience feedback
Overdramatization
Alternative style
Extemporaneous
A speaking situation focused at engaging the audience.
This method involves a carefully prepared and practiced
speech that is delivered from a skeleton of thoughts and
words.
Advantages
1. No longer limited by a script but by ones own
concept
2. Speaking in a more natural and conversational
manner will result natural interaction with the
audience
3. There is freedom in audience adaption

If the audience appears confused, the

speaker can provide additional support to
clarify the main idea
If the audience appears to readily understand
an idea, the speaker is able to omit some of
the support that has been earlier prepared.
Thus, this gives room for expansion in
subsequent portions of a presentation
Disadvantages
1. Requires practise that may result in a temptation
to memorise the speech
2. Possibility of losing a degree of style or
eloquence when delivering the speech and even
worse, forgetting how to elaborate a point at that
moment
Pointers
1. As beginner extemporaneous speakers, start with
memorizing ideas, not specific words, except for
key transitions, introduction, conclusion, and
perhaps some key examples
2. Do not wing it: Even the best speakers need to
prepare their comments in advance to prevent
straying from the main topic
3. Trust instincts and occasionally throw in an offthe-cuff remark to make the speech sound
conversational
4. Practice! The challenge is not to deliver the
speech exactly as planned, but to present ideas
and information in a natural and conversational
manner
Impromptu
Speaking impromptu is delivering a speech without any
advance preparation.
This delivery method does happen when we are asked
for an opinion of an issue unexpectedly.
In informal situations, speaking without preparation may
not be too uncomfortable.
This is because the audience may not expect a forceful
and organized speech from us.
Advantages
1. Without any notes for reference, the speaker will
be forced to respond to feedback thus engaging
the audience
Disadvantage
1. Speech will not be organized due to the lack of
preparation
2. Success of this delivery method is hugely
dependent on public speaking skills
Pointers
1. Decide quickly what the one message will be
2. Start off strong and with confidence and end
with a good conclusion
3. Focus on communicating to the audience and not
speaking at the crowd
4. PREP
Point (state position on topic)

Reason (personal viewpoint or attentiongetter)

Example to explain support the reason
Point (summarize and re-state point)
Readers Theatre
Reader's Theatre is having students read a script
modified from a literature piece. It requires the audience
to picture the action from hearing the script being read
aloud. This strategy requires no sets, costumes, props, or
memorized lines. Instead of acting out literature as in a
play, the performers goal is to read a script aloud
effectively, encouraging the audience to visualize the
action. Performers bring the text alive by using voice,
facial expressions, and a few gestures.
Advantage
1. Readers Theatre is not used solely for language
arts; it can be used across the curriculum in
subjects like social studies.
2. Readers Theatre not only assesses the students
ability to read fluently, but it assesses
comprehension as well.
3. Students not only participate in readers theatre,
they also can create scripts.
4. Readers Theatre allows to student to work
collaboratively.
Disadvantages
1. If students have not been introduced to readers
theatre before, it may be confusing.
2. Readers Theatre can be time consuming.
3. If students are reading a script from an historical
frame and the context lacks a strong story line,
interesting characters, conflict, plot action, or
humor it may be ineffective.
4. When students are given the opportunity to
create their own script, if guidelines and
expectations are not directly stated, students can
go off onto a tangent.
English Facts
1 billion people speak English. That's 1 in every
7 on earth.
80% of information stored on all computers in
the world is in English.

English words "I", "we", "two" and "three" are

among the most ancient, from thousands of
years.
The longest common English word
without vowels is "rhythms".
A new word in English is created every 98
minutes.
89% of people in Sweden speak English.
The word "bride" comes from an old protogermanic word meaning "to cook".
The word "queue" is pronounced the same way
when the last 4 letters are removed.
The word "mortgage" comes from a French
word that means "death contract".
The concept behind the word "cool" might come
from the African word "itutu", brought to
America by slavery.
90% of everything written in English uses just
1,000 words.
"Time" is the most commonly used noun in
English.
There are more English words beginning with
the letter "s" than with any other letter.
Nigeria has
more English speakers than the United
Kingdom.
There are 24 different dialects of English in the
US.
Today's British accent first appeared among
London's upper class around the time of the
American Revolution. Before that, the British
accent was similar to that of Americans.
80% of all written paragraphs in English feature
the word "the."
Understanding English actually hurts
professional players of English scrabble. Some
of the world's best Scrabble players are Thai and
can't speak English.
The words 'idiot,' 'imbecile,' and 'moron' were
originally medical categories for intellectual
disability.
By the age of 20, a native English-speaking
American knows 42,000 dictionary words.