THE ORAL

COMMUNICATION

Eesar Khan
Head of The Department
Linguistics & Corporate Communication.
THE ORAL
COMMUNICATION

What is Oral
Communication ?
THE ORAL
COMMUNICATION

By the title
It is not an art, skill or greatness.
It is our routine
It is requirement of everyone
But
By title or as a Course Title
It means Interpersonal Skills.
Interpersonal Communication is
about dealing with any situation,
according to its best merit.
This dealing can be with words or even
without words.
 Interpersonal Com. Skills
Responding to/dealing with a situation…
accordingly

COMMUNICATION
Transmitting and receiving Verbal
and Nonverbal messages
KNOW YOUR SELF
 FIRST, Answer the following

1. How have these situations happened to

you?

2. How have you reacted on these?

Joyful
Introvert
Shelled
Interactive
Celebrative
Initiator
Commander
Filled in Fun
 &

with group oppositions

 &

interaction with family

With SOCIETY
 &
in sorrows
 &

in joyful moments
 &

in formal encounters/ interviews

 Interpersonal Skills
Responding to a situation… accordingly
2. Why we need to master in
Oral Communication?

To communicate with
People around in our life…
Family members, elders,
youngers, friends, colleagues,
strangers, rivals, well wishers,
arrounders and sarrounders….
With variation
 However
When Oral Communication
becomes
A Presentation
as
A Public appearance..,
An Act of Interpersonal Skill…

Only then
It becomes
An art, a skill and greatness.
And…..

The height of oral communication skill is…

3. Why this Art is so unique?
•Gives you audience facing power

•Helps you explore yourself

•Leads you to be a leader

•Makes you impressionable

•Brings you in limelight

•You become hopes for others

THE STAGE
FRIGHT…
 Symptoms on SF
 · Physiological: sweating, altered heart
rate, headache, upset stomach, chills,
nausea.
 · Cognitive: congestion and mental
confusion, fear of failure and ridicule.
 · Behavioral: urge to escape from the
situation, stuttering, frequent or long
silences
 CAUSES AND DAMAGES
 What can be the role of society in
providing a launching pad for the
individuals suffering from Stage
Fright?
Distress
A feeling
of

great
worry

un
happiness

and

great
suffering
.
Distress
Symptoms
Physical symptoms of
Distress:

•Rapid heart beat

•Trembling knees, creating trouble

to stand and walk

•Quivering voice, accompanied by

•tightness in the throat.

•Hot flashes or feeling of faintness

•Stomach nervousness

•Hyperventilation, involving

•an uncontrolled gasping for air

•Eye tearing or runny nose.

Mental distress while
giving presentations:

•Repetition of words or
phrases

•Loss of memory, including

inability to recall facts and
figures as well as leaving
out of important points
altogether.

•General disorganization
Thought blockage, causing
the speaker to stop dead.
Physical or mental
symptoms to distress
are likely to be
accompanied by a
variety of Emotional
Reactions
•Feelings of terror, which often
arise even before beginning to
speak through various ways. A
sense of being overwhelmed

•A sense of having lost control

of oneself
•Helplessness, a childlike
feeling of being unable to cope
•Embarrassment
•Panic
•Feeling of shame and
humiliation following a
presentation
 How to overcome SF
The First Phase:

 Grab every single opportunity to go on stage.

 Always take it as an opportunity to improvise and upgrading your person.
 Learn to enjoy at stage and learn to be where many just dream to be.
 Embrace the feelings of being the ray of hope to many.
 Take it as a big step to extemporize your interpersonal skills.
 Develop an early habit among children on stage participation.
 Provide encouraging feedback to the child on his performance.
The Second Phase:

 Back yourself for the occasion

 Prepare the presentation well
 Add images more on your slides rather than words, which can
relate you to the content to speak
 Keep the present in view. Don’t even think about past or future.
 Learn to motivate yourself that You can & You will.
 Write down your presentation and its all moves more than once.
 Arrive at the venue a bit early and get familiar with the space.
 On arriving early go to stage, stand there, rehearse a bit and
assume the victorious stand of yours from the stage to the
audience sitting in front.
 Know your stage, podium and microphone well. It is highly advised
to check the microphone and its volume prior to the event.
 Know your venue.
 If possible, prior to the event, mingle with audience and try to transmit and receive
positive energy from them.
 Focus on breath control.
 Compose on your nonverbal communication.
 Never be judgmental to anyone, anything or any act from the audience.
 Do not ask for the feedback from others. You do not need to ask for. You will get it.
 Just listen to those who know your strengths and weaknesses, they know your effort.
 Even if you make some mistakes, then just remember that everyone makes mistakes. It
is just the matter of practice that you start learning to ignore your mistakes to that level
where the audience start ignoring your mistakes.

 Always wear proper attire, however, avoid wearing anything new on the big day to
evade unnecessary consciousness and uncomfortably.
Perform in class the real life scenarios from
the bullet points mentioned above.