speech class
Presentation skills course
A speech class is a course teaching public speaking, oral communication, and presentation skills.
Students typically deliver prepared speeches, learn to organize arguments, and practice speaking before an audience: I have to give a persuasive speech for my speech class next week.
Often a required course in high school or college curricula.
- debateFormal argument on issues
- presentationFormal display to viewers
- podiumRaised platform for speakers
- rhetoricArt of persuasive language
- oratoryFormal eloquent discourse
audience · eye contact · nervous · microphone · lectern · note cards · notes · persuasion · toast · stutter · enunciation · articulation · tone of voice · projecting · gestures · body language · impromptu · extemporaneous
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- communicationtelephone, conversation, inform, hand signal, messages
- performing artsacting, dance, music, drama, theater
- public speakingkeynotes, oratory, oration, presentation, lecture
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Original literary expression
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Instruction in contemplative practice
independent study · library time · silent reading · study hall · quiet time
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