GE5 – PURPOSIVE COMMUNICATION NORSU MC1

WORKSHEET 1 1st Semester, 2022-2023

NAME OF STUDENT: ___________________________ SECTION: ______

TEACHER: ___________________________________

ACTIVITY 1:

Over the course of a day, keep track of the forms of communication that
you use. Make a pie chart of how much time you think you spend, on an
average day, engaging in each form of communication (intrapersonal,
interpersonal, group, public, and mass). Provide a 1-paragraph summary of
your chart.

You can be as creative as you want with your pie chart, as long as you can
show how much time you think you spend on an average day engaging in
each type of communication.
ACTIVITY 2:
A T.E.D Talk is an example of public speaking. Watch Sherry Turkle’s T.E.D Talk "Connected but Alone" and analyze the message and how
information is presented meaningfully to the audience. Write your answers concisely.

1. Title of T.E.D. Talk:
4. What was the speaker’s thesis (main point) in this speech?
2. Name of Speaker:
6. Ethos is a speaker’s ability to build credibility,
establish himself/herself as an expert, and/or convince
the audience members that the speaker has their best
interests at heart. How does this speaker build ethos?
Feel free to also refer to the speaker’s profile
information from the ted.com webpage as you build
your answer
3. Date of T.E.D. Talk and Number of Views:
7. Pathos is an appeal to emotions (everything from humor to horror) in order to
sway an audience, while logos is the use of data/evidence to prove one’s case. Did
this speaker rely more on pathos or logos in his/her presentation? What
argument/point in this presentation did you find the most compelling? Why?

8. Write two specific things you learned from this 9. Are there nonverbal cues used by the speaker? Explain your answer.
presentation.

5. Highlight in color yellow the adjective that describes this Ted

Talk.

Humorous Dull Inspiring

Intellectual Confusing Repetitive
10. T.E.D. Talk presenters are known as effective public speakers. Describe two things this speaker does well in terms of 11. Are the principles of communication applied by the speaker? Explain your
engaging the audience. Be sure to include the minute: second mark (ex: 8:49) to denote the two specific moments you discuss answer.
here.

12. Give one piece of constructive criticism that would 13. What group of people would benefit the most from 14. Write in quotation marks the most powerful statement you believe the
improve the presentation. hearing this lecture? speaker was able to convey in her Ted Talk.

Adapted from: http://smhspanthers.ccschools.k12tn.net/teacher_documents/TED%20Talks.pdf