ORAL COMMUNICATION

GRADE 11 – ST. JOHN PAUL II

What is Communication?
- A purposeful activity of information exchange among
two or more participants with the aim of conveying or
receiving the intended meanings.

- came from the word “communis” which means

“common”.

- Imparting knowledge with the intention of getting a

common understanding of the message.
Where does the communication takes place?

- Two main subject categories: human beings, and

communication-enabled devices.

- Complex two-way process

How does communication takes place?
What do you do when…
1. Your alarm rings?

2. You feel the cold wind in your skin?

3. You smell the food from the kitchen?

Is it considered as communication?
How does communication takes place?
1. A specific mental or physical or physical response occurs when a
message transmits from a source to a receiver.

2. Communication is a two way process between the transmitter and the

receiver.

3. In India, a headshake (head turned left and right) means “yes”, “good”,
“OK”, or “I understand”, depending on the context.

4. Other than gestures, symbols, and spoken words, written words and
media as technology developed are used.
 THE NATURE OF
HUMAN
COMMUNICATION
People communicate through the following
channels:
1. Sound
- speech and language, vocalizations such as sounds, followed by a
variety of other noises as clapping hands, foot tapping, and so on can be
communicative.

2. Vision
- it is reading each other’s signals. This could be through facial
expressions, eye contacts, gestures, body language, unrestrained and non-
conscious visual information coming out of a person.
People communicate through the following
channels:
3. Touch and physical contact
- handshaking, cuddling, stroking, patting, tapping, kissing, hugging,
close skin-to-skin contact, and so on.

4. Smell
- we do pick up olfactory information or the sense of smell from one
another.
 What are the visual
information or visual
language we see when we
are communicating?
Visual informations

• Facial expressions
• Eye contacts and adjustment in eye contacts, much of
it non-conscious
• Body language and posture
• Gestures
ACTIVITY (to be uploaded in Google Classroom)

• List down 10 situations showing information

exchange or where communication exists.

• Describe the following terms:

- Communication
- “Communis”
- Effective Communication
- The nature of human communication