Speaking & Listening Skills

What does it really mean to listen? Are you nervous about conducting an interview or oral report? Here are some pointers for improving the ways you listen, participate, and speak in class.

How to Give an Oral Report

• Commonly Mispronounced Words

Writing Speeches

• Writing Speeches
• Speeches That Inform
• Speeches That Persuade
• Speeches That Entertain

Sample Speeches

• Notable Speeches and Addresses by U.S. Women, 18491995
• Quotations from Commencement Speeches
• Famous Presidential Speeches
• Top 100 American Speeches of the Twentieth Century
• Martin Luther King Speeches

Listening Skills

Conducting an Interview