Effective Speaking In A Debate

High schoolers examine and discuss the concept of stage fright. They demonstrate positive debate techniques, constructively critique other speakers, and implement debate techniques for a practice debate.

Why can speaking in public be so horrifying and have such strong effects on our bodies? Discover the science of stage fright! Your young learners will learn about the connection between stage fright and our natural fight or flight...

This tutorial focuses on tips to alleviate the fear of public speaking. It offers a YouTube video, "How to Speak in Public," which provides 15 steps to good public speaking; this is followed by an extensive list of tips to prepare for...

This site gives helpful tips about public speaking, particularly about storytelling. It provides information on stage fright, and nervousness.

This site provides numerous links to everything you need to know about public speaking. Some topics include Overcoming Speaking Anxiety, Hostile Audiences, Speech Preparation, Gathering Information, Elements of an Effective Speech, and...

This site provides a question/answer format on how to over come stage fright.

This Lesson Tutor article prepares you for overcoming stage fright in situations such as interviews and teaching. Includes a "score yourself as a speaker" test.

This author, Ake Lundeberg, suggests that negative pressure plays a large role in stage fright.

Learners write dialogue. For this character development instructional activity students use direct or indirect speech to include a confrontation between two characters in their story. Learners portray the emotions of the characters in...

This lesson focuses on tools to overcome a fear of public speaking caused by two types of anxiety, situational anxiety (stage fright) and trait anxiety.