Improve Your Speech

d)Improve Your Speech

Most people do not know how to speak in society. It is big lost for your social scale. Today i am going to suggest few exercises for developing your speech ability.

•“Tell Me” Game: This game is for two people. So you need partner before begining. There are two roles in the game: One is listener and the other one is speaker. Listener is going to record all speech problem. And the speaker is going to speak two minutes. Here are few topics. Do not spend your time for thinking subject:

1.Your favourite hobby and why it’s your favourite.
2.What you would do if you won five million dollars on the lottery?
3.If you had unlimited resources, what would you do to improve your business?
4.What do you like best about what you do? Why?
5.Which of the five senses is most important? Why?
6.What skill or talent would you most like to have? Why?
7.Why is the current federal government doing such a bad job?
8.What should your town do to create a better climate for business?
9.What are the best places to eat in your town or city? Why?
10.What are the best things to do to relax? Why?


•“How tos” Game: You need partner for this game, too. Your partner’s task is to comprehend what you’re saying and give you feedback about your speech pace. As the speaker, your task is to tell him or her how to do something in five steps. In this way you are going to learn focuses on speaking at the optimum pace for making your message understood. And for your good, here are few examples for “how tos” game:

1.How to perfectly boil an egg?
2.How to plant a tree?
3.How to send an email?
4.How to handle a customer complaint?
5.How to send a fax?
6.How to evaluate an employee?
7.How to replace a printer cartridge?
8.How to impress a client?
9.How to give a good speech?
10.How to make the perfect cup of coffee or tea?

In the end of the game ask your partner to repeat five steps that you speech up. Did he or she get all of them? If not, why? Did you speak too quickly or too slowly or was there some other speech problem that interfered with communication?

You can do this exercise as many times as you like.

•Score Your Speech Skills: After your speech exercises score your skills. If you are not satisfied with your scores do your exercises again. Here are table:

Enunciation: 1 – 2 – 3 – 4 - 5
Lack of Buzzwords: 1 – 2 – 3 – 4 - 5
Lack of Fillers: 1 – 2 – 3 – 4 - 5
Lack of Acronyms: 1 – 2 – 3 – 4 - 5
Expression: 1 – 2 – 3 – 4 - 5
Active Listening: 1 – 2 – 3 – 4 - 5
Pace: 1 – 2 – 3 – 4 - 5
Lack of Slang: 1 – 2 – 3 – 4 - 5