Revision of Fundamental Concepts
The program starts with a succinct (but critical) revision of essential concepts, including audience engagement and speech structure.
This helps prepare students for the rest of the program and ensures that everyone starts on a similar level, especially students who have not been exposed to public speaking before.
Convincing Audiences
For the Convincing Audiences focus for our Lions program, students will generally cover:
- Topic #1 – Introductions, icebreakers & revising presentation skills fundamentals
- Topic #2 – Persuasive techniques and how they make a speech more convincing
- Topic #3 – Verbal and physical manner essentials to appear more persuasive
- Topic #4 – Consideration of essential debating concepts
- Topic #5 – Building an individual tone and expression bank to further develop speaking manner
- Topic #6 – Pulling each concept together in an end-of-term presentation
Practice Speeches & Activities
The remainder of the program introduces them to various concepts and activities that will help enhance their presentation skills, which are, in turn, reinforced through regular practice speeches and feedback!
End of Term Presentation
Each term ends with a presentation, either to peers or parents (depending on the venue). This is an excellent opportunity for students to showcase what they’ve learned over the course of the term and continue their confidence-building journey.
Students generally spend the last couple of sessions preparing and practising their speeches for the presentation.
Coaches will also provide an update to parents on what was covered during the term, as well as what comes next for the students’ public speaking journeys.
