Public Speaking Lesson Plans

Students examine how can technology be used as an asset in public speaking. They develop their public speaking skills through the use of a PowerPoint presentation and integrate animation into their presentation.

In this lesson students examine public speaking skills. In this persuasive speech lesson, students view and discuss 2 video segments regarding a Chinese school government election. In this lesson students prepare and deliver persuasive speeches that require them to describe how they would improve their school.

Students discover how to speak with confidence for a long period of time. In this public speaking lesson, students learn how to organize ideas properly in order to convey a message when speaking in front of others.  Students perform their speeches and critique one another.

In this lesson learners analyze public speaking techniques as a part of a speech improvement activity. In this public speaking lesson, learners demonstrate the appropriate public speaking and listening skills, define the elements of persuasion, define the elements of personal credibility, develop methods to analyze learners' speeches, complete an outline for a speech, and create and give their own persuasive speech.

Learners continue their public speaking skills by writing an either/or speech. Individually, they complete an outline on what they want to discuss and give their speech to the class. To end the lesson, they complete a rubric for each speaker and offer constructive criticism.

This lesson has learners use public speaking skills to share evaluations and critiques of literature. In this critique lesson, learners evaluate books they are reading. This lesson has learners create charts to assess the book's qualitites. This lesson has learners read books and present a critique to the class weekly.

In this lesson students review protocols for speaking in the Public Speaking workbook.  In this public speaking lesson, students prepare a multimedia presentation and brochures plus a mural for their presentations.   

Students create a presentation. In this public speaking lesson, students prepare and deliver a presentation, review peer feedback and make corrections to their presentations. Students create a multimedia presentation and reflect on their experiences by completing a writing assignment.

In this lesson students give a public presentation. In this public presentation lesson students research public speaking and plan their own presentation on a researched topic. The students give peer feedback for their classmates. Reflecting and self-evaluation is the last portion of the lesson.

This lesson has learners sharpen their public speaking skills by explaining connections between a famous quotation and their own lives. They lengthen their speaking time, organize ideas in outline form, and complete rubrics for peer feedback and evaluation. This lesson has learners also write and present speeches, develop public speaking skills, and apply quotations to their personal lives or to the life of someone they know.