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CENTRE FOR LANGUAGE STUDIES UTHM

ESSENTIAL ACADEMIC ENGLISH

UHB 20102

ASSIGNMENT 2: ESSAY WRITING

SECTION 56
LECTURER MADAM NURIZAH BINTI MD NGADIRAN
GROUP 5
NAME 1. MUHAMMAD NURHARFIZZIE BIN MOHD HARFIZZAN
(DB180007)

2.MUHAMMAD WAFIQ AZIZI BIN MOHD YASIN

(AP180113)

3. NUR AFIQAH BINTI MD SOHOD

(DB180096)

4. NUR HAFIZAH BINTI HALIMI

(AP180086)
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 Good communication skills are among the essential soft skills to achieve success in our life.
Without efficient and effective communication, an information could turn into a massive error,
frustration, misunderstanding, or even disaster by being giving out poorly delivered message or
misinterpretation. In this modern era, numerous fields of jobs require individuals to have high
competency in communication skills. Even though the advancement of technology that increased
many qualities in a lot of field, human connection and interaction is still importance in delivering
many important messages. People whom acquired the ability of remarkable communication skills
would enjoy better interpersonal relationships with acquaintances, community, friends, and
family. Based on the extract from two ted talks video that are ‘How to speak so that people want to
listen’ by Julian Treasure and ‘How I overcome my fear of public speaking’ by Danish Dhamani you
would discover new tips and tricks for you to master the art of communication skills. The
comparisons, contrast, details and content of the two splendid talks would be further discussed
below.
The title for first video is how to overcome my fear of public speaking by Danish Dhamani.
Communication is the most important skill for personal and professional success. In this talk.
Besides, Danish Dhamani shared to all the audience about his fear and anxiety to talk in front
which made him blinked and the tear rain down on his cheek. He should do something to
overcome that problem which he tries to search all the solution or tips on the famous search
engine which was, Google. He realizes public speaking is a teachable skill that all people could
learn and develop that skills to equip their elves with better proficiency when facing speech in
front of crowds. Danish Dhamani also share a few tips to overcome our fear of public speaking he
experiences, his anxiety to talk in front of the crowds which the speaker himself, Danish Dhamani
discusses and elaborate in details on the methodology of how overcoming your fear of public
speaking. This skill is amongst critical key which leading in a much fulfilling life and unlocking
your true potential. Danish’s vision is to empower everyone around the world to overcome their
fear of public speaking and to become a better communicator in. As a first-generation immigrant,
for whom English is a second language, the fear of public speaking haunted Danish throughout his
early life. By his grit, constant practicing and seeking for tutorials such as coaching, he soon
realized that people are not born to be magnificent public speakers, instead public speaking is a
learnable skill. Besides, Danish Dhamani also shares a few tips to overcome our fear of public
speaking which by seeking help from speech coach, online courses, practice in front of the mirror,
and join toastmaster club. This is what inspired Danish to create Orai, a mobile app that uses
artificial intelligence to improve your speaking ability only through mobile devices.

In video 2, Julian Treasure state a few elements that can be used as efficient ways to attract
people to listen up on what we are trying to say. The first element is that, we must avoid seven
deadly sins in speaking. It is gossips, judging, spreading negative outlook, complaining which leads
to achieving nothing, excuses that clearly passing problems of the world to everyone else, lying
and dogmatism that defined as mixing up the falsehood with the facts. We are freely to talk about
what we want to express to others but we have to consider and know our limit of talking. Words
are mightier than a sword, we should realize that sometimes our words had the ability to hurt
others. When we are talking, try to spread all the positivity as much as we can in our speech. Stop
judging people and listen what they are trying to say. By doing this, other people will listen when
we are speaking. Next element is the four foundations that can make our speech become powerful.
When we speak, we have to be honest. Make sure all the content that we want to speak are true
and clear facts. Our attitude is the most important elements when we are speaking. Audience are
not only listening to the speech but they also see the personality of the person who are giving out
his or her wisdom. So, we must be a man of integrity whom keep our words and always spread the
love to all people. In this video also teach us how to increase the power of speaking by using a few
tools. The content of tools that can be used to talk which register, timber, prosody, pace, pitch and
volume. We can apply a different tone when we are speaking to the crowds. We can use a high or
low intonation or speak a little bit fast in order to make sure that they will pay an attention by
those attractive catchy sounds. Sometime silent also can be put in our speech to catch our
audience attention. Before initiating our speech, Julian Treasure suggests the speaker to do some
simple voice and lips warm ups to make sure that we are ready to deliver a speech like a champ.
The motives are to get the speakers ready before they give out their speech to the audience. This
comprises breathing techniques, making some unique noises with lips, such as lalala and
‘raspberries’, on the tongue, practising a rolled ‘r’ in a few moments, and moving through the
different channel range of voice pitch. By using these great methods in our speech, we can make
people listen attentively to what we would like to present, increase good impression and also will
boost up our confident to talk in front of people.
In conclusion, based on the two videos of ted talk. The first video has shown to us about
‘How I overcome my fear of public speaking’ by Danish Dhamani. So, we know that public speaking
is a form of communication to share thoughts and wisdom to many others people. A very well
preparation through numerous practices, training, application of speech technique can overcome
one’s fear of speaking in front of large numbers of crowds or even a group of small number of
people and increase their confident level towards the speech and leads to a very a success
speaking performance. We must believe that each of us can always become a good speaker if we
keep on practising the tips that Danish Dhamani to us. While other videos are how to speak so that
people want to listen by Julian Treasure. We can learn to apply effective communication so that
the listeners would avoid any interference during a speaker’s session to get the right message
delivered to the whole audience. By following the guidelines from Julian Treasure, it can help
individuals drive conversations and speech in ways that are meaningful, thoughtful and attract the
audience to listen on our speech attentively. Both videos are amazing sharing of experiences and
knowledge that the content delivered by the two excellent and experienced speakers that would
help us to make a self-transformation, transition in our normal way of speaking and giving out
speech at mass and improve on our norm speech. We must always actively practicing having a
great engagement with the audience and having that grit of relentless self-improvement or in
Japanese tradition called as “Kaizen” that could be translated as constant improvement in our
skills.