G'day mate, how're ya going? Today, I'd like to talk about the importance of doing self-talk as a means of developing your speaking skills. Well, for me, even now I'm always talking to myself whenever I'm free. However, how should we do this practice? It's dead simple. Here's my short answer.
First of all, you've got to come up with one topic that is fairly easy to talk or, conversely, is harder to talk, either of which is perfectly fine in order to boost your confidence level in terms of spoken skills. If I were you, I would set up a topic that was relatively simple but a bit of abstract like "What is your philosophy?" or "What does a close friend mean to you?" Something like that. So, you don't have to have a long question or too complicated one, but try to have a bit of challenging one that requires your imagination and flexibility.
Once you've set up the clean topic, what you're gonna do is to have a brainstorm, during which you're gonna try to jot down keywords as many as you possibly can. You try to restrict yourself when it comes to time. Ideally, you should spend 1 minute to do it. When time's up, you're gonna then have a closer look at the notes and analyse them like the way in which you wanna organise the structure of your self-talk. My recommendation is that you make sure you have a clear and precise introduction, followed by body 1 and 2, and finally a short and punchy summation. So, your soliloquy should be just a 2 minute-long one. 2 minutes is not too short but not too long, so I do reckon you're gonna be comfortable with this short-to-intermediate range of duration for impromptu.
Now, shall we begin? After finishing your 2 minute-self-talk, you should analyse what's been done, and you're gonna visualise a self-appraisal like how your speech could've been better. Without having a self-appraisal, it's gonna be extremely difficult for anyone to find a solution to the lack of something associated with your speaking skills. This is not complicated, and you just wanna be more pronunciation and grammar-conscious person, right? Content doesn't really matter, to be frank with you. What matters is your oral fluency like how many times you make odd pauses, and to what extent you hesitate. At first, self-analysis is not so easy to do, but the more you practise it the more handy and effective you will get accustomed to.
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