Duke College | McEducation
Duke College | McEducation
TED Club – Public Speaking (Level 1)
About Course
Enlightenment-level courses are suitable for children with English beginners, improve children’s verbal expressions, gestures and eye contact, overcome their fears and increase their confidence
Show & Tell for students who: want to learn presentation techniques want to overcome social fear need to strengthen their confidence We guarantee they can: improve in vocalization, expression, gesture, and eye contact give presentation and experience video recording 24 times become persuasive, confident presenter
Course introduction: The course is a win-win oral language system designed for Chinese and North American teaching, so that Chinese children can get rid of outdated oral English and at the same time be able to connect with the daily English of North American education. The course is divided into elementary, intermediate and advanced courses. It is designed for children with English beginners.
With this small-level system, they can quickly achieve the fluency in oral English; the course focus is aimed at children who have a certain basic English but lack systematic training in oral English, and the intermediate course uses English themed courses. Oral language training helps children to speak a speech calmly. North American parents think that children who grow up in an English-speaking environment do not need to learn to work hard in spoken English. In fact, it is not. The advanced stage is a course planned for children entering high school, which is a bridging course, so that children can not only present an article in the people they read, but also in the public. Delivering an inspiring public speech in the required environment, and to be enrolled in the course and become a member of the DECA Association and TED-ED Association in North America. With these associations to compete, participants increase their chances, and at the same time, the chances are greater for them to be accepted by the top universities around the world.
Six advantages of public speaking courses:
1 Teachers with the North American education background and their pure English pronunciation expose the children to the pure spoken language with the characteristics of North American education
2 North American learning syllabus, rich in subject matter, attractive in content, unified in curriculum style, and drive children’s motivation 3 In line with the North American curriculum system and coherent with the domestic English test system, an international perspective has been developed
4 System coherence, basic application to fluent expression, and vocabulary development step by step
5 The international English system based on the TED-ED standard provides each child with an efficient and fluent English language learning plan
6 Using audio, video, animation, games and other teaching methods to improve teaching efficiency
5 ways to break through the outdated spoken language and become a confident public speaker:
1 Self-recording and playback after class, nursery rhymes, animations, picture books, homework, key exercises, comprehensive consolidation
2 Create an English environment to combine English vocabulary with real life, so that children can reflectively read words, connect words, and speak words
3 Learn interactive speaking skills, interesting teaching oral language, and let the interaction between teachers and children break the deadlock through their own body language, so as to achieve the charm of public speaking.
4 The opportunity to perform on the training platform allows children to overcome their fears and gain the opportunity to express themselves
5 Thematic segmented drills, tone, posture and produce the child’s self-image。
The early stage is divided into 3 oral classes:
1. Spoken English pronunciation: continuous pronunciation, overall pronunciation, homophony and transliteration are all pronunciation skills to be followed in learning English to practice oral English, so that the spoken English pronunciation will be corrected and authentic.
2 Free spoken English : Each course selects the topics of daily life, creates one-on-one English question and answer situation, and improves the fluency of free conversation in the dialogue.
3 Simple English speaking exercises: Select simple and interesting topics in each course, easily understand the culture of English-speaking countries, including news, travel, entertainment, movies, economy and other topics for dialogue and interaction
Primary stage TED Club:
Basics of Eloquence Speech: Intensive training in speech art, logical thinking leading discussions, speeches requires frameworks and routines. Skilled speeches: three-minute speech training, requires self-image expression in speeches, interactive exercises, expressive tone The training of mastering the yin and yang to achieve the charm of speech. Responsive speech: training on unscripted speech skills, learning persuasion in speech, improving ability to respond and holding the audience, and making public speaking an art
Intermediate TED Club:
Economic Keynote Speech: Prepare with the main points of the speech on the economic topic. The course also includes basic training , three-minute speech training, skill training for unscripted speech, etc. News Keynote Speech: Prepare with the main points of the news topic as the speech , The course also includes basic training training, three-minute speech training, unscripted speech skills training, etc. The intermediate course will also become a TED member for free, and participate in all speech conferences held by the TED Association, so that children can have the opportunity to face the crowd and improve.
Resilience and Field control Capability
This course is designed for children who are fluent in spoken English and willing to participate in competition courses.
36 lessons – 60 minutes per lesson online or off line – 3-6 per class or less