Public Speaking

The Great Dictator (1940. Film. Charlie Chaplin)

The Odyssey (Homer) … And grey-eyed Athene sent them a favourable gale, a fresh West Wind, singing over the wine-dark sea.

And Telemachus called unto his company and bade them lay hands on the tackling, and they hearkened to his call. So they raised the mast of pine tree and set it in the hole of the cross plank, and made it fast with forestays, and hauled up the white sails with twisted ropes of oxhide. And the wind filled the belly of the sail, and the dark wave seethed loudly round the stem of the running ship, and she fleeted over the wave, accomplishing her path. Then they made all fast in the swift black ship, and set mixing bowls brimmed with wine, and poured drink offering to the deathless gods that are from everlasting, and in chief to the grey eyed daughter of Zeus. So all night long and through the dawn the ship cleft her way.

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Answering and Asking Questions (Kansas State U)

Audio Archive

Body Language (Lapham’s Quarterly)

Brit Lit Resource Kits: Text & Audio

British Library: Sounds

The Canadian Festival of Spoken Word (CFSW) … If you feel nervous about standing up to do a presentation, go and check this out. You can observe how others do effective presentations, and be entertained.

Center for Gesture and Speech Research (McNeil Lab)

Charlie Chaplin Speaks (The Great Dictator)

Communications Toolkit (Michigan State U)

Figures of Speech (Grant Williams)

Gesture and Intonation (Dan Loehr)

Ibiblio: The Public’s Library and Digital Archive

International Phonetic Association

King George VI Addresses the Nation (BBC Archives)

LibriVox: Accousitcal Liberation of Books in the Public Domain

Lost Malcolm X Speech Heard Again 50 Years Later (NPR)

Manner of Speaking (House of Commons, Canada)

Nobel Prize Acceptance Speeches