Academic Communication
Organizing and Writing Speeches
- Speaking in Public – Kim De Silva (slides)
- Organizing Speeches
- Outlining Your Speech – Kim De Silva (slides)
- Organizing the Body of a Speech – Kim De Silva (slides)
- Beginning and Ending a Speech – Martin Nguyen (slides)
- How to Write a Speech – Grammarly
- Writing Speeches – The Writing Center at UNC Chapel Hill
- Writing an Effective Speech – Public Affairs Council
- 10 Keys to Writing a Speech – Forbes
Storytelling
Videos
- The Seven Secrets of the Greatest Speakers in History – TED
- How I Beat Stage Fright – TED
- TED’s Secret to Great Public Speaking – TED
- The Secret Structure of Great Talks – TED
- Your Body Language May Shape Who You Are
- Why I Live In Mortal Dread of Public Speaking – TED
- How To Speak So That People Want To Listen – TED
- Steve Jobs’s Stanford Commencement Speech
- Martin Luther King Jr.’s I Have a Dream Speech
- Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance – TED
- Want to Be Happy? Be Grateful – TED
- The Magical Science of Storytelling – TED
- The 110 Techniques of Communication and Public Speaking- TED
- Take Control of Your Non-Verbal Communication – Harvard Business Review
Tools for Finding the Right Words
TOOLS FOR NON-NATIVE SPEAKERS
Pronunciation
- The Sounds of English
- IPA Consonant Sounds – YouTube
- IPA Consonant Sounds – English Media Lab
- Thought Groups – Part 1
- Thought Groups – Part 2
- Plural Noun Endings
- Rules of Word Stress
- Sentence Stress
- Linking in English
- An Introduction to English Vowel Sounds – Jennifer ESL
- Front Vowels – Jennifer ESL
- Back Vowels – Jennifer ESL
- Central Vowels – Jennifer ESL
- R and L (in one word) – Jennifer ESL
- Voiced TH – Jennifer ESL
- Unvoiced TH – Jennifer ESL
- ESLAmerica.US – pronunciation from beginning to advanced levels
- ESL Pronunciation Links
- Can/Can’t – Jennifer ESL
- AT&T Labs Natural Voices – text to speech
- Stress Patterns – Jennifer ESL
- Dictionary.com – pronunciation of individual words
Listening
- ELLLO – listening practice and quizzes on a variety of topics
- Randall’s ESL Cyber Listening Lab – easy, medium, and difficult listening activities
- Voice of America – listening practice with news stories (with transcripts)
- StoryCorps – listening practice with stories about people (with transcripts)
- TED Talks – listening practice with subtitles in many languages
Conversation Practice
- Daily ESL – listening and speaking activities
- Live Mocha – online language learning community