Princess-Anne Emeka-Obiajunwa

Hello people of God!  It’s a privilege to be alive on this  side of existence in such times. A lot is happening behind the scene in the unseen realm. God wants us to be alert, informed and involved.  This year, the Hebrew calendar and the Gregorian calendar aligns perfectly on  April, 1 to 30th 2022. By that, I mean the Hebrew month of  Nissan and our Gregorian April begins on same day. The last time it happened was in 1957 (65 years ago). In the last 200 years (since 1889), this is the 5th time such an alignment is occurring. The other times it happened were in, 1908, 1938,1946,1957 and now 2022. WHAT ABOUT THE MONTHS?  While Nissan occurs as the 7th month after the start of the Jewish civil new year Rosh Hashanah (Occurs in September), it is regarded as the first of months in the Bible ( Exodus 12:2)  Hence it is the biblical new year (Rosh Chodesh). The word Nissan comes from the Hebrew word Miracle. The Jews refer to it as Miracles of Miracles....

  You definitely know the challenges you encounter when speaking with an adult audience is totally different from what you get with children audience. Before preparing your speech, there are very specific things you need to take into consideration in order improve the effectiveness of your speech. This module will help you learn those specifics.   WHAT IS AUDIENCE ANALYSIS?  First, an audience is one person or more people who listen to a speaker during a communication process. When speaking to an audience, some speakers say what they themselves want to hear. When you do so, you lose your audience. The power of a good speech lies in saying what your audience want and need to hear . How can you say what they want or need to hear if you do not know what they want or need? The process of learning who your audience is, what they are thinking, and how you can best reach them is called Audience Analysis . 1   It is the process of examining information ...

 We are finally in module 4.  Yaaaaaay!!! I'm excited because this module is a prelude to module 5 where we get to lean about actual presentation.  Remember what I said in Module 3 Lesson 5; Let me remind you below; In public speaking,   what you say is as important as how you say it and what you do while saying it. What you say is the content of your speech How you say it, is the delivery/presentation of your speech What you do while speaking, is the personality of your speech We can't jump into presentation if you didn't take a minute or more to brush up on accent, pronunciation and intonation. These three musketeers are the juice of spoken words. I hope you make the commitment to use all the resources made available to you in this module. Let's proceed  Accent The way in which people in a particular area, country or social group pronounce words in called accent(Oxford Dictionary). If you are a non-native speaker, you may want to accept that your accent is a p...

If you've come thus far in the course.  I honor you.  It tells me that you are disciplined enough to come midway and that you will finish the course.  CLAP  CLAP  CLAP  CLAP   How To Structure Your Speech The content of your speech is the main thing in public speaking. Any intelligent audience can spot chaff in your presentation. Here is how to brilliantly structure your speech. A basic speech outline includes  The Opening/Head/Introduction The Body The Conclusion   The opening/Head/Introduction Write this part after you've written your enter speech. This is because the introduction should contain bullets or summary of what the entire speech is about. Make sure it is very captivating. If your opening is slurry or boring, you will lose your audience's attention no matter how fine you look.  Nail this opening as though it is the only thing you will talk about in the entire presentation. I talk about how to...