My English teacher asked me to tell
the overview of the class activity that we did today.Actually, we were having a
kind of speaking program in which a person has to put his/her views about a
subject in front of the mass in most common language in the world –English.
We were given the topic “Widening of roads in Kathmandu
Valley”. Many of my friends tried to give their opinions and analysis about the
topic. Certainly , the topic was quite general and as a result many of my
friends opinions were matching . The thing which our teacher was looking for
into our speech was the way by which we present our views.
Well that’s it. I at the end of the class was asked to give
the overview about the program. I just had to include my friends’ opinions and how the program went on. After the class
went off,I found that speaking in front of a mass is not an easy job. So I
shall salute those having proficiency in
talking in front of mass from now on.
While I was trying to put my speech in front of my
classmates all of those words, those styles using which I used to communicate
with them went off. I felt like my mind was vacated and I’m in a state of
learnig vocabularies. As my friends told me ,my face turned red.I felt a kind
of frustration for a while. My red face at the stage, turned
dark after the class was over. I wasn’t able to speak with my friends as
I use to. People smiling when there was eye contact with me and girls gossiping and laughing in their circle made me think that my failure in giving speech
was the reason behind those things.
Feeling frustrated and retarded , I tried to console myself
as some of friends did .”it was just a speech.Why should I be bothered about
it?”. It lightened my brain to some extent. But ,while I was trying to remain
cool and forget the dumbest moment I ever had , one thing was always striking
my head and was saying that “there are more to come” .
So I came to conclusion that I mustn’t be bothering about my
past but must be careful about the similar conditions coming towards me in the
near future. Future of every human in this competitve world is challenging. So
on entering into the future if one is not good at giving speech in front of the
mass and is incapable of expressing his views , he won’t get chance to show
skill and knowledge that he has. I’m an Engineering student and I’m learning
skills and grabbing all the knowledge around me as far as I can. But if I
cannot speak in front of the people about what I can do and make them satisfied with my ideas and views , question arises “Can
I be a succeful Engineer?”.Can a software engineer attract buyers for his newly made software without having
talking skill/presentation with them? For
example on viewing only ,both the empty and filled water tank look similar. A
water tank full of water is similar to
the condition that I’m discussing.If people
don’t know that the tank is filled with water , the water won’t be used
and it gets contaminated because of a long storage.In the similar
condition one should be able to tell the
people that what he has inside him and make them believe in him.If the people
believe in the person he will certainly be given a chance to show his talent.
There is a saying in Nepali “bolne ko pitho pani bikcha ,nabolne ko chaamal
pani bikdaina”. Though Rice is considered better than wheat by most of the
people in Nepal,when one advertises that his wheat is far better and make the
people believe in him he can easily sell his wheat. But if a person having
rice to sell ,if can’t speak infront of the mass and make them aware what he has , his rice is likely to get damaged in his shop.
As far as I wrote was about the neccessity of capability of talking
infront of the mass. Now let’s focus on some points that are failing most of
the people to be able to talk infront of
the mass.
· -- Lack of
practice :a well known fact, “practice makes a man perfect” .so lack of
practice makes people failing to give speech infront of the mass.
· --The
audience: Certainly if you find your audience not following
you how better you try you get a bit
discouraged. There are conditions when the mass is against you and it is
neglecting your views though they are good enough to listen. The audience laugh
at any of your activity, they talk unnessarily and intentionally.These sort of
conditions make you discouraged.
· --Language: I think it also plays a vital role in
determining the quality of your speech. If you’re not fluent with the language
in which you are required to speech you
cannot put your views efficiently.
· --Overconfidence: overcinfidence results in no preparation for the speech and
if the topic is new your mind is only a note of a primary school child with
lots of words written without proper order.
· --Expectations: Though you give satisfactory speech in front
of a mass normally, when you’re asked to give speech in a bigger platform in
front of people who are far better than you. You normally feel a kind of
pressure in you which might affect your speech.
So if one is victimised by any of the disease I mentioned
above,there is no point in questioning why his face turned red considering that
his RBC’s are in a good state. I then reviewed what can be done in order to
avoid the failure in talking in front of mass by going through different
suggestions given to me ,some written articles and of course my own analysis.
Some of the points that are currently striking my mind are:-
· -- Follow
the general rules of give speech like addresing people,greeting them, say
the topic to them,give them the idea what you will be giving them in your speech and so on. By doing this you will get
familarised with the condion and the people you are dealing with.
· -- I think atleast a simple layout of the speech should be made before going to the
mass. It was my greatest mistake not to
collect some points before I stepped on
the stage.
· -- Accordong
to my teacher , for a good speech
-manage your body position, have gesture while you are giving your speech,slow
down your speed of speech in the
important things of your speech which you want your audience to make it in
their mind and also it is necessary to have a commanding voice.
·
By doing so you can drag your audience attention
towards you. Now, all you have to do is give them the knowledge/thought/view
what you have.
· -- There can be some unwanted and unnecessary
questioning and laughing of the audience.Such
things should be neglected as far as possible. On unnecessary(not about
the topic of discussion) question you can give them answers carelessly (but don’t make them angry). By doing
so you will feel like dominating them so
that you can easily give your views among them.
· -- When you are putting your views, for effectiveness of your speech you can ask
some of the general things about the topic to them and also try to include the
audience thought in your speech.
· -- Also, remember a well known saying “Practice makes a man perfect” and follow it.
These are the
theoretical things that I came to know. I will certainly follow these steps ,
if I get any chance of speaking something in front of a mass.
