A Student Workbook for Public Speaking: Speak from the Heart asks students to think critically about the speech-making process while building their mastery of the fundamental practical skills of public speaking through a series of exercises and activities. Nineteen brief chapters cover the essentials of public speaking including selecting a topic, researching your topic, organizing your topic, overcoming speech anxiety, and delivering informative, persuasive, and special occasion speeches. Each chapter includes a concise introduction to the most important skills and concepts related to each chapter topic, and offers opportunities for critical reflection on how to use each aspect of public speaking appropriately and effectively. Each chapter is paired with an activity, checklist, or worksheet that students may use to develop their speeches, assess their performance, and chart their progress in becoming competent public speakers.

This text is intended as a supplement to a main public speaking textbook or as a stand-alone workbook. It offers concrete applications of the principles of rhetoric and public speaking, and provides a teaching and learning tool.

A public speaking workbook that you can use at home, in the classroom, or at work. The book can help improve your speaking capabilities by following the lessons and exercises in the book.

A collection of teaching practices, tips, and suggestions by various teachers from Indiana colleges and universities.

An exciting new entry intended for public speaking courses, this text by the well-respected author team of George Rodman and Ronald Adler presents balanced coverage of public speaking theory and skill.

The ESL and Spanish History Workbook is a high interest, multicultural, student activity vocabulary development workbook with an intermediate ESL curriculum guide, ESL lesson plans, and a teacher’s model. A complete answer key to the student activities is included to facilitate teacher time management. The book was designed for busy language teachers and parents. This workbook can be used as an independent study ESL book. The ESL and Spanish History Workbook has several vocabulary, sentence structure, mapping, and reading comprehension word games designed for intermediate to advanced level ESL students and or for students studying Spanish history. The book’s focus is on Spanish history, vocabulary and reading development, as well as multicultural education appreciation. The book was designed to motivate secondary and college level ESL students and or anyone studying Spanish history. It was designed to supplement language learning. The word games can be used to review, reinforce and celebrate Spanish history. The vocabulary games are appropriate for individual as well as group work. The exercises can be used in class or as brief take home assignments. The activities were designed to be enjoyable, challenging, and most importantly enlightening. They were calculated to save teachers time by supplying ready to use supplementary material. Vocabulary is presented in context to the theme of Spanish history in an effort to increase knowledge and understanding of the diverse cultures of the people of the United States. Students will increase their reading, writing, and vocabulary skills through exposure to Spanish history, customs, traditions, institutions, and values. Language teachers will develop a better understanding of ESL intermediate level goals, objectives, and instructional planning. Enjoy the book!