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Leveraging Body Language to Enhance Presentation Skills | The Second Lecture in the Yinghua Presentation Skills Series
Our school invited Mr. Tan Wenhao to give the second lecture in a series of special lectures on October 30th, themed "Critical Thinking, Speech, and Eloquence." The lecture helped students learn how to effectively use body language to improve their presentation skills.
2020-11-03
American communication scholar Albert Mehrabian proposed a famous "55387" rule, which states that Information expression = 55% + 38% + 7% . 55% refers to body language , including gestures, expressions, eye contact, and breathing; 38% refers to voice , including tone, speed, and volume of speech; 7% refers to the literal content of speech . This shows the importance of body language.
Zhuhai Yinghua Cambridge International School has always attached importance to the cultivation of students' abilities, especially their language expression and critical thinking skills. Therefore, on October 30, our school invited Mr. Tan Wenhao to give a series of lectures themed "Critical Thinking, Speech, and Eloquence" to help students make better use of body language and improve their presentation skills.
Lecture Review
In this lecture, Mr. Tan Wenhao mainly explained the secrets of body language, focusing on smiling and eye contact, and used some small tips to help everyone use body language better.
Smiling is the core of facial expression during a speech. To help children develop elegant and appropriate smiles, Mr. Tan Wenhao introduced a facial expression training method: smile exercises.
Place your index fingers on both corners of your mouth and slowly raise them, holding for 10 seconds; make a moderate smile, lifting the corners of your mouth further, holding for 10 seconds, relaxing other parts; align the corners of your mouth with the extension of your pupils, making a big smile, lasting 10 seconds, then return to normal; press your fingers along your cheekbones, repeatedly making smiling and relaxed expressions to ensure muscle movement; relax your facial muscles and make your favorite smile.
After completing the entire set of smile exercises, the children said that their expressions were much more vivid than before.
Eyes are the windows to the soul, and eye contact is the most sincere expression of one's inner feelings. As excellent speakers, children should learn to make timely eye contact with the audience.
During a speech, the use of eye contact can be divided into three categories: point-to-point, scanning, and virtual.
Point-to-point , that is, when it comes to important points, focus your gaze on a specific person and make eye contact; Scanning , that is, slowly move your gaze from left to right, or from front to back, scanning the audience; Virtual , that is, focus 80% of your attention on the content of the speech, rather than the audience.
Finally, Mr. Tan Wenhao summarized the differences between the three methods: point-to-point is used to achieve communication and gain approval; scanning is used to control the overall situation and understand the atmosphere; virtual is used in large-scale occasions and can achieve the best effect of emotional expression.
The lecture ended with everyone wanting more, but Yinghua's cultivation of students' critical thinking, speech, and eloquence will continue.
Yinghua hopes that when students express themselves to the world, they will have clear thinking and elegant speech. This will make students shine at any time.
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