Getting Ready For Speech

Getting Ready For Speech was a finalist in the Independent Publisher book awards of 2002. It features a wide variety of sample speeches; it includes storytelling, show and tell, and movie and book reviews; it is perfect practice for high school speech contests; it carefully controls grammar and vocabulary and recycles them again and again. "Getting Ready for Speech" is much more than the lowest level speech book on the market. Using a new approach, each unit develops both language skills and speech skills. Each unit introduces grammar, vocabulary, and listening skills along with speech delivery and organizational skills. Every unit features a different type of speech. Speech types include self-introduction speeches, speeches to introduce someone, layout speeches, demonstrations speeches, storytelling, show and tell, and movie and book reviews. Units have a proven step-by-step learner-friendly format: 1. MODEL--Each unit kicks off with a model, a focused listening task where students listen to simple mini-speeches modeling the units target speech. 2. LANGUAGE--These pages highlight and practice the specific language from the mini-speeches 3. DELIVERY--The ever-popular delivery pages isolate and practice the units delivery skill. 4. PRACTICE--These pages revise the listening task at the beginning of the unit into a pair work format that enables each student to integrate the units language and delivery skills. 5. SPEECH--These pages provide students with a clear, simple template for preparing and giving their own speeches. 6. GRAMMAR--Each unit concludes with a page summarizing the units grammar focus. Getting Ready for Speech--A four skills text disguised as a speech text!

A Washington Post Bestseller Your manual for remote and virtual work. Communicating virtually is cool, useful, and now even more ubiquitous and necessary than ever. But we're often reminded that the quality of human connection we experience in many forms of virtual communication is awful. We've all felt disconnected in a video conference, frustrated that we're not getting through on the phone, upset when our email is badly misinterpreted, or anxious that we're being misunderstood. How can we fix this? In this powerful, practical book, communication expert Nick Morgan outlines five big problems with communication in the virtual world--lack of feedback, lack of empathy, lack of control, lack of emotion, and lack of connection and commitment--and shows how to overcome them as we shift to working remotely more and more. Morgan argues that while virtual communication will never be as rich or intuitive as a face-to-face meeting, recent research suggests that we need to learn is to consciously deliver a whole set of cues, both verbal and nonverbal, that we used to deliver unconsciously in the pre-virtual era. He guides us through this important process, providing rules for virtual feedback, an empathy assessment and virtual temperature check, tips for creating trust in a virtual context, and advice for specific digital channels such as email and text, the conference call, Skype, and more. Whether you're an entrepreneur, an independent professional, or a manager in an organization that has more than one office or customers who aren't nearby, Can You Hear Me? is your essential communications manual for twenty-first-century work.

Do an outstanding wedding speech - in 7 easy steps! Do you need to do a wedding speech but have no idea how to start or what to say? Are you nervous about standing up and speaking in public? Or do you just need some pointers to get that speech 100% awesome? Are you looking for a practical guide to walk you through the whole wedding speech process? The Wedding Speech Manual is here for you. Your 7 Steps to Wedding Speech Success - I will show you: Preparation - how to calm your nerves and be fully prepared before and on the wedding day Get your material - three simple ways to get you overflowing with ideas in no time - your main problem will be what to leave out! Structure and write your speech - how to turn those ideas into a great speech quickly and painlessly Edit your speech - how to polish your speech into the best it can possibly be Practice - the secret sauce - massively boost your confidence and ability to stand up and deliver your speech Delivery - do your speech as confidently, calmly and impressively as any professional Troubleshooting - so you’re 100% prepared for anything that could possibly happen! The Wedding Speech Manual is your complete, practical, step-by-step guide to writing and performing a personalised wedding speech which will be enjoyed and cherished by your loved ones, friends and family. “Thank you very much Mr Peter Oxley, the wedding was yesterday and the speech went down a storm. This book helped me so much, everyone said I nailed it. If anyone out there has a wedding speech to do soon, then forget the rest, this book is the only one you'll need or want. Thanks again” – Robert Butler This comprehensive yet readable guide is for all wedding speakers – father of the bride, groom, best man, brides, mothers of the bride, bridesmaids – and will: Give you the confidence that you have an excellent, original wedding speech which hits all the right notes Get your wedding speech written quickly – so you can focus on practising and all the other things you have to do! Show you the tools which the professionals use to master their nerves – so you can deliver your speech confidently, coolly and calmly - and enjoy the big day! The Wedding Speech Manual will show you: What you will be expected to say and do How to master your nerves and stop them getting in the way of your successful speech How to find loads of entertaining and amusing material to fill your speech How to get the audience on your side right from the start The key reasons why so many wedding speeches fail - and how to make sure yours doesn’t How to write and perfect your speech – a lot quicker and easier than you ever thought possible The “dreaded wedding speech etiquette” made simple - what you should and shouldn’t say How to deliver your speech as confidently, calmly and impressively as possible How to handle all the other stuff which can blind-side a public speaker: like using props, microphones and handling difficult audiences

Prevent learning loss while students are away from school, and set students up for a successful upcoming school year with the second edition of this bilingual parent-involvement resource! Students risk falling behind at the start of a new school year without practicing skills learned in the previous year. Designed to bridge the away-from-school gap, this resource provides students with reading, writing, and mathematics activities aligned to Common Core and other state standards that reinforce learning from fifth grade and prepare students for sixth grade. A 14-page introduction section for parents and instructions for each student activity are written in both English and Spanish to help parents get involved in their child's education. With fun and easy-to-use family activities, this is the perfect full-color resource to set students up for a successful school year.

Prevent learning loss while students are away from school, and set students up for a successful upcoming school year with the second edition of this bilingual parent-involvement resource! Students risk falling behind at the start of a new school year without practicing skills learned in the previous year. Designed to bridge the away-from-school gap, this resource provides students with reading, writing, and mathematics activities aligned to Common Core and other state standards that reinforce learning from fifth grade and prepare students for sixth grade. A 14-page introduction section for parents and instructions for each student activity are written in both English and Spanish to help parents get involved in their child's education. With fun and easy-to-use family activities, this is the perfect full-color resource to set students up for a successful school year.