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Delivery For Different Situations

This document discusses different situations for public speaking delivery and provides tips. It covers speaking to different sized audiences, in outdoor venues, in various sized venues, with a microphone, and with a podium. For each situation, it describes advantages and disadvantages and gives tips such as practicing, checking the venue beforehand, adjusting volume and gestures, and using but not hiding behind a podium. The overall message is that public speaking delivery requires adapting to different environments and equipment.

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Delivery For Different Situations

This document discusses different situations for public speaking delivery and provides tips. It covers speaking to different sized audiences, in outdoor venues, in various sized venues, with a microphone, and with a podium. For each situation, it describes advantages and disadvantages and gives tips such as practicing, checking the venue beforehand, adjusting volume and gestures, and using but not hiding behind a podium. The overall message is that public speaking delivery requires adapting to different environments and equipment.

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Delivery for

Different Situations
1. Speaking to a specific audience size
• Description
- audience size depends on the venue size.

• Advantages
- you can determine your approach with your
audience
- more intimate and personal for smaller size
• Disadvantage
- challenging and intimidating

• Tips
- ask the organizers about the estimated number
of the audience
- practice, practice, practice
2. Speaking in an open- air venue or
outside a building
• Examples
- open courts or grounds, football fields, etc.

• Advantage
- more relaxed due to the venue's atmosphere

• Disadvantage
- forced to make adjustments, like voice projection
• Disadvantage
- encounter a lot of communication barriers such
as noise, inattentive audiences, possible absence of
technology, etc.

• Tips
- check the venue prior to speaking engagement
- ask the organizers about the equipments' availability
• Tips
- challenge yourself on how you maintain
the audiences' attention
- use the outdoor setting as an
advantage way of jumpstarting your speech
- practice, practice, practice
3. Speaking in different venues
• Description
- speaking venues that vary according to size:
classroom, ball room, auditorium, covered court, etc.

• Advantage
- exposed to different venues, that will add
to your public speaking experience
• Disadvantage
- make a big adjustments in terms of
your nonverbal cues: body language, facial
expression, volume of voice, etc.

• Tips
- check the venue days before your scheduled
speech, arrive hours earlier, to determine adjustments
• Tips
- for larger venue, speak more slowly, use
pauses frequently, make use of gestures and
expressions. When having visuals aids, make it
more visible
- in small venues, manage your notes well
and adjust your nonverbal cues
4. Speaking with a microphone
• Description
- main function is to increase the volume
of your voice

• Advantage
- getting the attention of the audience easily
because of the loudness of voice
• Disadvantage
- challenging because of the possible tendency to
underuse or overuse the microphone

• Tips
- check the microphone if it functions well
- check your voice if it's audible enough
- in small venue, manage your voice's volume
5. Speaking with a podium or lectern
• Description
- a podium or lectern is a reading
desk with a stand and a slanted
top

• Advantage
- notes can be placed on slanted top
• Advantage
- the lectern can hide or cover someone's
nervousness or stage fright

• Disadvantage
- having the tendency to hide their hands
behind the podium, which will not help
the enhancement of the message
• Tips
- stand straight, as good posture exudes confidence
- avoid gripping the edges of the podium
with both hands
- for extemporaneous and impromptu, step to the
side occasionally when composing yourself, so you
can effectively use gestures and eye contact

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