PVLEGS
Presenting Your Ideas With Style!
Adapted by Lauri Hamill from Erik Palmer’s PVLEGS website and book lessons
Three Helpful Resources
Common Core S/L Standards Meet Technology
Career and College Readiness
Technology Tools to Practice:
Two Parts of Formal Speaking
Before Speaking
Performing the Speech
Before Speaking...consider
Audience
Key: Understand Your Listeners
To whom will you be speaking?
Content
Key: Make the Message Valuable
To consider: What will my speech be about? Why is it important to others?
Organization
Key: Make the Speech Easy to Follow
Preparation
Key #1: A “written” speech...improves formal performances
Preparation
Problem/Practice: Moving from written speech to note card can be a challenge...everything’s important.
Tip: Cross out unnecessary words. Keep important nouns and verbs
Homer didn't realize that Apu had crossed out the expiration date on the bologna. It was over six months past the time the product should have been taken off the shelf. Unknowingly, Homer ate the entire pack even though he started to feel sick. You know Homer, he just had to finish. Homer ended up so sick that an ambulance had to be called and he was rushed to the hospital. Apu became remorseful and decided to do something to make amends.
Preparation
Example: Transfer and group remaining words to notecard
Homer didn't realize that Apu had crossed out the expiration date on the bologna. It was over six months past the time the product should have been taken off the shelf. Unknowingly, Homer ate the entire pack even though he started to feel sick. You know Homer, he just had to finish. Homer ended up so sick that an ambulance had to be called and he was rushed to the hospital. Apu became remorseful and decided to do something to make amends.
Preparation
Example: Note Card for Performance
Preparation
Key #2: Practice Often!
Key #3: Practice With...
Visual Aids
Key: Enhance the words
Tips:
Appearance
KEY: Dress for the Occasion
Performing a Speech
Poise
Voice
Life
Eye Contact
Gestures
Speed
Evaluating a Performance
with PVLEGS
Poise
Voice
Life
Eye Contact
Gestures
Speed
Poise
KEY #1: APPEAR calm and confident
It’s normal to feel...
Poise
KEY #2: Use Stance and Movement as Signals
Beware...constant motion is distracting!
Poise
Tips to increase “poise”
Voice
Key: Make Every Word Heard
Life
KEY: Put passion in your voice. Energy and emotion engage the audience.
volume to match
intensity
topic
Life
Practice: Add emphasis to words where you need it for meaning.
Life
Practice: Which words would you emphasize?
Tropical rain forests cover just seven percent of the world's surface. However, these forests contain more than half the world's living species. A sad fact is that these forests are being destroyed. Each year, forty million acres---about half the size of the state of Washington, disappear along with the plants and animals that live there.
Eye Contact
KEY: Make eye contact with every listener
Eye Contact
Practice: Eye or forehead contact?
Gestures
KEY: Motions match words
Gestures
Practice: Create gestures for these sentences
As I was walking, I heard a small voice. I looked all around. “Down here!” said the voice. And there by my foot was the smallest person ever. Two inches tall. I bent down and picked him up and he stood on my hand. “Who are you?” I asked.
Tip: Use technology to capture video feed...Laptop camera, smartphone, Vado or Flip cameras
Speed
KEY: Adjust how fast or slow you speak (pace) and pause to keep listeners’ attention
Speed
Practice: Where would you pause?
Space: the final frontier. These are the voyages of the starship Enterprise. Its continuing mission: to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilizations, to boldly go where no one has gone before.
Speed
Practice: Where would you speed up or slow down?
Life is too crazy. We are always busy. We rush to get up, wolf down breakfast, run to school, race to practice, hustle through homework, do our chores. We are always in a
hurry. What if one day we just stopped? I mean stopped. Dead halt. Catch your breath. Relax. Take a break. It will improve your life.
PVLEGS...
Spells SUCCESS in public speaking!
Can you recognize PVLEGS behaviors?
*TED Talks, Kid President. etc are great places for finding formal presentations
Works Cited
Palmer, Erik. "Activities and Ideas." Teaching Speaking:
Exceeding the Listening and Speaking Standards. Erik
Palmer, 2014. Web. 23 Feb. 2014. <http://pvlegs.com/>.
Palmer, Erik. Digitally Speaking: How to Improve Student
Presentations with Technology. Portland: Stenhouse, 2012.
Web. 21 Feb. 2014.
Palmer, Erik. Well Spoken: Teaching Speaking to All Students.
Portland, Me.: Stenhouse, 2011. Print.
Ten Top Things Not to Do When Giving A Speech. Teacher Tube.
Web. 23 Feb. 2014.<http://www.teachertube.com/viewVideo.
php?video_id=87433>. (Link)