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Books > Language & Literature > Language teaching & learning (other than ELT) > Specific skills > Speaking / pronunciation skills

Presentation Skills for Quivering Wrecks (Paperback, 2nd Alternate): Bob Etherington Presentation Skills for Quivering Wrecks (Paperback, 2nd Alternate)
Bob Etherington
R273 R229 Discovery Miles 2 290 Save R44 (16%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Spiders, death, dentists, snakes and flying are in the list of the top ten fears of businesspeople (Book of List). But the top position is held by "public speaking". So great is this fear that most businesspeople have a single objective: to get off the platform as soon as possible. This book, based on a hugely successful course given to thousands of businesspeople, shows how anyone can speak with confidence to an audience of any size. Laced with humour and wit, the author emphasizes that you don't have to be a brilliant orator to be an effective speaker in business. Simply being good is plenty, because 95% of all business presenters are so awful! 10 reasons you must buy this book and avoid "death by slide-show"! 1. Most business audiences have a single objective: to get out of the room. 2. Most business presenters have a single objective: to sit down in the audience again. 3. Most corporate audiences can't remember, 24 hours later, what was presented, the title of the presentation or the presenter's name. 4. Like it or not, 55% of the persuasive power of a presentation is transmitted by the speaker's body language, 38% by the speaker's voice tone and only 7% by the content. 5. 75% of speaker-nerves disappear with correct rehearsal. 6. You can discover how to generate applause when you want it. 7. There is a simple model you can use which will create a terrific presentation for you every time. 8. Bullet points are not what slides are for, and using all capital letters makes long stretches of text very hard to read. 9. Reading words off slides (as most presenters do) puts your audience to sleep in about 30 seconds. 10. Good presenters are very rare. When you become a good presenter you can often negotiate better employment terms, a higher salary, and even get yourself promoted - I did... so can you! [Facsimile reprint edition]

The Lost Art of the Great Speech - How to Write One--How to Deliver It (Paperback, Special Ed.): Richard Dowis The Lost Art of the Great Speech - How to Write One--How to Deliver It (Paperback, Special Ed.)
Richard Dowis
R407 R307 Discovery Miles 3 070 Save R100 (25%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

"Splashy slides, confident body language, and a lot of eye contact are fine and well. But if a speech is rambling, illogical, or just plain boring, the impact will be lost. Now everyone can learn to give powerful, on-target speeches that capture an audience's attention and drive home a message. The key is not just in the delivery techniques, but in tapping into the power of language.

Prepared by an award-winning writer, this authoritative speech-writing guide covers every essential element of a great speech, including outlining and organizing, beginning with a bang, making use of action verbs and vivid nouns, and handling questions from the audience. Plus, the book includes excerpts from some of history's most memorable speeches--eloquent words to contemplate and emulate."

How to Speak KPOP - Mastering the Most Popular Korean Words from K-POP and Talking Like a Real Fan (Paperback): Jungho Park How to Speak KPOP - Mastering the Most Popular Korean Words from K-POP and Talking Like a Real Fan (Paperback)
Jungho Park
R330 R275 Discovery Miles 2 750 Save R55 (17%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
School Administrator's Public Speaking Portfolio - With Model Speeches & Anecdotes (Paperback): P.S. Mamchak School Administrator's Public Speaking Portfolio - With Model Speeches & Anecdotes (Paperback)
P.S. Mamchak
R1,059 R803 Discovery Miles 8 030 Save R256 (24%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This unique portfolio puts at your fingertips 158 model speeches covering virtually every topic a school administrator must address. Included are speeches for holidays, speeches for celebrations, speeches for parent/teacher meetings, plus eulogies, testimonials, introductions and much more. Each speech feature special data as to its topic, audience, time of presentation, pitfalls to avoid, as well as suggestions for movements or gestures and strategies for getting maximum audience involvement.

OUTLINE OF CONTENTS

  • Part I: Effective Model Speeches For All Occasions
  • 1. Icebreakers and anecdotes that are dignified -- yet funny
  • 2. Introductions and transitions you can use when serving as MC
  • 3. A variety of speeches for opening or closing a program
  • 4. Speeches that aid in effective school-- community communications
  • 5. Speeches to use when addressing your fellow educators
  • 6. Speeches that will help you motivate and inspire any audience
  • 7. Dynamic speeches for retirements and testimonials
  • 8. Dignified and meaningful eulogies and testimonials
  • 9. Speeches for special occasions -- from a find-raising kick-off to a graduating class address
  • 10. Lively holiday speeches for use throughout the school year
  • Part II: An Administrator's Blueprint for Preparing and Delivering a Speech
  • 11. A step-by-step guide for preparing and delivering a speech from scratch, all based on practical experience
  • 12. An administrator's Survival Guide for Avoiding the pitfalls of public speaking
Plus: The School Administrator's Locatomatic Index of Speech Topics and Occasions
Speaking Greek 2 Audio CD set (CD, 2nd Revised edition): Joint Association of Classical Teachers Speaking Greek 2 Audio CD set (CD, 2nd Revised edition)
Joint Association of Classical Teachers
R821 Discovery Miles 8 210 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Speaking Greek supports the second edition of the bestselling beginner's course, Reading Greek, by providing on two CDs lively new recordings of some of the ancient texts presented in the Text volume. Made by experts and accompanied by special sound effects, the tracks include readings from Homer, Herodotus, Euripides, Aristophanes and Demosthenes. There is also a new introductory track containing a talk by Professor David Langslow about the sounds of ancient Greek. An accompanying leaflet provides a summary, a description of technical terms and further reading. These new CDs will enlighten the experience of the student of ancient Greek, demonstrating that this was a living language, spoken as well as read.

An Essential Guide to Public Speaking - Serving Your Audience with Faith, Skill, and Virtue (Paperback, 2nd edition): Quentin J... An Essential Guide to Public Speaking - Serving Your Audience with Faith, Skill, and Virtue (Paperback, 2nd edition)
Quentin J Schultze; Foreword by Martin Medhurst; Afterword by Clifford Christians
R496 Discovery Miles 4 960 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Communication expert and popular speaker Quentin Schultze offers a practical, accessible, and inspiring guide to public speaking, showing readers how to serve their audiences with faith, skill, and virtue. This thoroughly rewritten and expanded four-color edition has been tested and revised with input from Christian undergraduates and contains new chapters on timely topics, such as speaking for video, conducting group presentations, and engaging society civilly. A complete public speaking textbook for Christian universities, it includes helpful sidebars, tips, and appendixes. Additional resources for students and professors are available through Textbook eSources.

Conversational Dutch Dialogues - Over 100 Dutch Conversations and Short Stories (Paperback): Lingo Mastery Conversational Dutch Dialogues - Over 100 Dutch Conversations and Short Stories (Paperback)
Lingo Mastery
R433 R371 Discovery Miles 3 710 Save R62 (14%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Orator's Education, Volume I - Books 1-2 (Hardcover, New edition): Quintilian The Orator's Education, Volume I - Books 1-2 (Hardcover, New edition)
Quintilian; Edited by Donald A. Russell
R754 Discovery Miles 7 540 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Quintilian, born in Spain about 35 CE, became a widely known and highly successful teacher of rhetoric in Rome. "The Orator's Education" ("Institutio Oratoria"), a comprehensive training program in twelve books, draws on his own rich experience. It is a work of enduring importance, not only for its insights on oratory, but for the picture it paints of education and social attitudes in the Roman world.

Quintilian offers both general and specific advice. He gives guidelines for proper schooling (beginning with the young boy); analyzes the structure of speeches; recommends devices that will engage listeners and appeal to their emotions; reviews a wide range of Greek and Latin authors of use to the orator; and counsels on memory, delivery, and gestures.

Donald Russell's new five-volume Loeb Classical Library edition of "The Orator's Education," which replaces an eighty-year-old translation by H. E. Butler, provides a text and facing translation fully up to date in light of current scholarship and well tuned to today's taste. Russell also provides unusually rich explanatory notes, which enable full appreciation of this central work in the history of rhetoric.

Charisma - Public Speaking Secrets for Introverts on How to Influence People and Handle Small Talk With Confidence (How to Be a... Charisma - Public Speaking Secrets for Introverts on How to Influence People and Handle Small Talk With Confidence (How to Be a Powerful, Dynamic and Confident Leader) (Paperback)
Tom Avery
R503 R412 Discovery Miles 4 120 Save R91 (18%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Storytelling 101 Workbook - Get Started in the Art and Practice of Oral Storytelling (Paperback): Michelle M Buvala The Storytelling 101 Workbook - Get Started in the Art and Practice of Oral Storytelling (Paperback)
Michelle M Buvala; K. Sean Buvala
R373 Discovery Miles 3 730 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Easy German Phrase Book - Over 1500 Common Phrases For Everyday Use And Travel (Paperback): Lingo Mastery Easy German Phrase Book - Over 1500 Common Phrases For Everyday Use And Travel (Paperback)
Lingo Mastery
R301 Discovery Miles 3 010 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Fear, Hate, and Victimhood - How George Wallace Wrote the Donald Trump Playbook (Paperback): Andrew E. Stoner Fear, Hate, and Victimhood - How George Wallace Wrote the Donald Trump Playbook (Paperback)
Andrew E. Stoner
R905 Discovery Miles 9 050 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

When Donald J. Trump announced his campaign for president in 2015, journalists, historians, and politicians alike attempted to compare his candidacy to that of Governor George C. Wallace. Like Trump, Wallace, who launched four presidential campaigns between 1964 and 1976, utilized rhetoric based in resentment, nationalism, and anger to sway and eventually captivate voters among America's white majority. Though separated by almost half a century, the campaigns of both Wallace and Trump broke new grounds for political partisanship and divisiveness. In Fear, Hate, and Victimhood: How George Wallace Wrote the Donald Trump Playbook, author Andrew E. Stoner conducts a deep analysis of the two candidates, their campaigns, and their speeches and activities, as well as their coverage by the media, through the lens of demagogic rhetoric. Though past work on Wallace argues conventional politics overcame the candidate, Stoner makes the case that Wallace may in fact be a prelude to the more successful Trump campaign. Stoner considers how ideas about "in-group" and "out-group" mentalities operate in politics, how anti-establishment views permeate much of the rhetoric in question, and how expressions of victimhood often paradoxically characterize the language of a leader praised for "telling it like it is." He also examines the role of political spectacle in each candidate's campaigns, exploring how media struggles to respond to-let alone document-demagogic rhetoric. Ultimately, the author suggests that the Trump presidency can be understood as an actualized version of the Wallace presidency that never was. Though vast differences exist, the demagogic positioning of both men provides a framework to dissect these times-and perhaps a valuable warning about what is possible in our highly digitized information society.

21 Steps To Become An Awesome Public Speaker - Your 3-Week Pocketbook of Inspiration to Present Like a Pro (Paperback): Jordana... 21 Steps To Become An Awesome Public Speaker - Your 3-Week Pocketbook of Inspiration to Present Like a Pro (Paperback)
Jordana Borensztajn
R254 Discovery Miles 2 540 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Practically Speaking (Loose-leaf, 3rd ed.): J. Dan Rothwell Practically Speaking (Loose-leaf, 3rd ed.)
J. Dan Rothwell
R1,626 Discovery Miles 16 260 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Making the Father of the Bride's Speech (Paperback): John Bowden Making the Father of the Bride's Speech (Paperback)
John Bowden
R242 R196 Discovery Miles 1 960 Save R46 (19%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

You have a wonderful opportunity to add to the magic of your daughter's wedding. Your words will linger in memories -- they may even be captured on video for future generations to hear. So what are the golden rules of speech making? How can you convey emotion, seriousness, and add a touch of humour? Should you offer advice to the happy couple, and what about the toast? The answers are all here in this vital book. Use it to add something special to an already special day.

Spanish Frequency Dictionary - Advanced Vocabulary - 5001-7500 Most Common Spanish Words (Paperback): Mostusedwords Spanish Frequency Dictionary - Advanced Vocabulary - 5001-7500 Most Common Spanish Words (Paperback)
Mostusedwords
R945 Discovery Miles 9 450 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Game Face - The Media Training Playbook, 19 Cautionary Tales (Paperback): Bodine Williams Game Face - The Media Training Playbook, 19 Cautionary Tales (Paperback)
Bodine Williams
R498 R414 Discovery Miles 4 140 Save R84 (17%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Spanish Frequency Dictionary - Intermediate Vocabulary - 2501-5000 Most Common Spanish Words (Paperback): Mostusedwords Spanish Frequency Dictionary - Intermediate Vocabulary - 2501-5000 Most Common Spanish Words (Paperback)
Mostusedwords
R949 Discovery Miles 9 490 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Leave 'em Laughing - A Handy Guide to Public Speaking (Paperback): Calvin DeGrey Leave 'em Laughing - A Handy Guide to Public Speaking (Paperback)
Calvin DeGrey
R324 Discovery Miles 3 240 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

A step-by-step approach to becoming confident with public speaking. Calvin DeGrey's practical guide to the art and business of speaking and entertaining draws on his extensive experience as a stand-up comedian and public speaker. Chapter by chapter, the problems and pitfalls of speaking in public (a serious fear for many) are dealt with systematically, delivering a solid toolkit for foolproof public speaking. The book covers voice, style, speech, content and format, dealing with hecklers, being an MC, managing events and professionalism.

Spanish Frequency Dictionary - Essential Vocabulary - 2500 Most Common Spanish Words (Paperback): Mostusedwords Spanish Frequency Dictionary - Essential Vocabulary - 2500 Most Common Spanish Words (Paperback)
Mostusedwords
R947 Discovery Miles 9 470 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
How to Develop Self Confidence and Improve Public Speaking (Paperback): Dale Carnegie How to Develop Self Confidence and Improve Public Speaking (Paperback)
Dale Carnegie
R467 Discovery Miles 4 670 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Media Edge - Media Logic and Social Reality (Paperback, New edition): David L. Altheide Media Edge - Media Logic and Social Reality (Paperback, New edition)
David L. Altheide
R938 Discovery Miles 9 380 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

This book challenges social science to address the most important social change since the industrial revolution: the mediated communication order. More of our everyday lives and social institutions reflect the compelling media logic that resonates through conversation, interaction, marketing, as well as social programs, issues and foreign policy. We are beyond the time when people take into account media matters; rather, media matters are now incorporated as a kind of social form in routine and extraordinary activities. This thesis was first laid out in 'Media Logic', co-authored with Robert P. Snow in 1979. Thirty-five years on, Altheide discusses his recent thinking about how media logic and mediation is a basic element in constructing social reality. From the internet to the NSA, he shows how media logic has transformed audiences into personal networks guided by social media. He argues that we have reached the media edge as social media have all but eviscerated the audience as a significant factor in the communication equation; mediated communication is increasingly about media performances and individual selection to promote identity.

Talk Spanish 1 (Paperback, 3rd edition): Almudena Sanchez, Aurora Longo Talk Spanish 1 (Paperback, 3rd edition)
Almudena Sanchez, Aurora Longo
R261 R236 Discovery Miles 2 360 Save R25 (10%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

This book also comes as part of a pack with audio CDs: ISBN 9781406678970 Talk Spanish (Book) has already inspired thousands of people to learn Spanish from scratch and is great support if you're attending a Spanish class. . Whether you're learning for business, travel or just for fun, its straightforward, step-by-step approach will ensure you're soon able to speak Spanish in a range of everyday situations. With specially designed activities and clear, jargon-free grammar explanations you'll quickly develop your language skills and make genuine progress right from the start. Make real progress using the successful, proven Talk method. Develop your language skills with tips and strategies to help you learn. Practise and learn with interactive activities to support every topic. Also available: Talk Spanish Pack (includes this book and 2 x 60-minute CDs) ISBN 9781406678970 Also available: Talk Spanish Complete ISBN 9781406679243, which combines the bestselling Talk Spanish 1 (this book and 2 x 60-minute CDs), Talk Spanish 2 (book and 2 x 60-minute CDs) and Talk Spanish Grammar (book). Other languages in the series: Arabic, French, German, Greek, Italian, Japanese, Mandarin Chinese, Portuguese, and Russian www.bbcactivelanguages.com

Twitter and Society (Paperback, New edition): Katrin Weller, Axel Bruns, Jean Burgess, Merja Mahrt, Cornelius Puschmann Twitter and Society (Paperback, New edition)
Katrin Weller, Axel Bruns, Jean Burgess, Merja Mahrt, Cornelius Puschmann
R1,001 Discovery Miles 10 010 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

This book has won the CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title award 2014. Since its launch in 2006, Twitter has evolved from a niche service to a mass phenomenon; it has become instrumental for everyday communication as well as for political debates, crisis communication, marketing, and cultural participation. But the basic idea behind it has stayed the same: users may post short messages (tweets) of up to 140 characters and follow the updates posted by other users. Drawing on the experience of leading international Twitter researchers from a variety of disciplines and contexts, this is the first book to document the various notions and concepts of Twitter communication, providing a detailed and comprehensive overview of current research into the uses of Twitter. It also presents methods for analyzing Twitter data and outlines their practical application in different research contexts.

Professional English in the European Context: The EHEA Challenge (Paperback, New edition): Rosalia Crespo Jimenez, Angeles... Professional English in the European Context: The EHEA Challenge (Paperback, New edition)
Rosalia Crespo Jimenez, Angeles Linde Lopez
R2,796 Discovery Miles 27 960 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

More than ever, professional English is now cruising towards an enormous challenge in the European university context due to the extremely significant moment we are living in the European Higher Education Area (EHEA). The European convergence process is demanding immediate reflections, serious analyses, and profound reforms in specialized language teaching that lead to reach Bologna standards by 2010. This book aims to present an overview of professional English in the current academic landscape in Europe. It intends to shed light on a range of issues, both theoretical and practical, related to ESP, focusing on discourse analysis, corpus analysis, information and communication technologies, methodological approaches, curriculum design, and empirical research into language learning in broad terms. Because teachers need to be researchers and inquirers, this overview thus makes a contribution to the professional English field with the purpose of highlighting several important questions in the entire ESP academic mainstream. Scholars from different European universities explore specialized languages and document ESP teaching methodologies at university levels from a multidimensional perspective.

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