ORAL COMMUNICATION IN CONTEXT

FINAL PERFORMANCE TASK

TIPS FOR EFFECTIVE DELIVERY

1. Make a good set of notes you can follow at a glance, and PRACTICE your presentation.
2. Dress for the occasion and tidy yourself up. Do something about hair that tends to fall into your face.
Avoid wearing a hat or cap because it can obscure your face.
3. Turn on enough light so people can adequately see you, your eyes and your facial expressions.
4. Make sure your notes and other materials are in proper order before you begin.
5. Get rid of any gum or food you might have in your mouth. Don't hold a pen or paper clip or anything
else that you might twiddle and distract your listeners.
6. Stand or sit up straight with your weight balanced.
7. Make eye contact before you start to speak, as you normally do in beginning a conversation.
8. Don't start with “um” or “OK.”
9.  Avoid merely reading your presentation.
10. Speak with appropriate loudness and speed. Consider audience, place and topic.
11. Use your voice expressively and meaningfully. Avoid monotony.
12. Minimize distracting mannerisms and aimlessly shifting weight or moving about.

REMINDERS:

 The speech is already provided (see the back page), you just have to perform it.

 Film yourself while delivering the speech.

 Do not forget to wear FORMAL ATTIRE. If formal attire is not available, DECENT CLOTHES are

acceptable.

 YOUR SPEECH MUST NOT EXCEED TO ONE (1) MINUTE VIDEO.

 There will be a Facebook Group SBNHS - Oral Communication (FINAL PERFORMANCE

TASK) or use this link https://www.facebook.com/groups/2348454705291617/ intended for your

submitted videos. This will remain public group until the final date of submission, so you can freely

upload your videos anytime.

 For the caption upon uploading, include your FULL NAME AND SECTION.

 Deadline for submission: JANUARY 24, 2022

GETTYSBURG ADDRESS
Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation,
conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
 Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so
conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We
have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave
their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.

But, in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate — we cannot consecrate — we cannot hallow

— this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far
above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we
say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated
here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is
rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us — that from these
honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure
of devotion — that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain — that
this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom — and that government of the people,
by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

Abraham Lincoln
November 19, 1863