What is “active listening”? What strategies can we use to listen actively? Responses should include five techniques. What are the three different types of public speech? What makes a good informative speech? How did Mel Gibson’s character in Braveheart achieve such a powerful motivational effect in just a few sentences? Critical Thinking Questions What do you think causes listeners to “zone out” during a speech? Explain your answer using at least three examples. Why can it be distracting to look around a room instead of directly at a speaker during a speech? Explain your answer. Do you think it’s helpful to create mental pictures while listening to a speech? Explain your answer. Do you think all speeches contain a persuasive element? Explain your answer. Do you think the structure of a speech is important? If so, why?

Critical Thinking Questions

1. What do you think causes listeners to “zone out” during a speech? Explain your answer using at least three examples.

I think what causes listeners to "zone out" and stop "paying attention" during a speech could mean that the speaker doesn't really have a passion for what they're talking about or don't understand it themselves, the speech is something your not interested in so you don't care to pay attention, or people find the speech to repetitive and attentive.

2. Why can it be distracting to look around a room instead of directly at a speaker during a speech? Explain your answer.

It can be distracting to look around a room instead of directly at the speaker during a speech because then your paying more attention to the other people in the room, what might they be thinking, what they're doing, how they look, etc

3. Do you think it’s helpful to create mental pictures while listening to a speech? Explain your answer.

Yes. I think it's helpful to create mental pictures while you're listening to a speech because you can attempt to visualize how or what the speaker is saying and put it into motion, seeing how it would work out, pan out, figuring out the details yourself.

4. Do you think all speeches contain a persuasive element? Explain your answer.

Not all. I don't think ALL speeches contain a persuasive but a large amount of them do.

5. Do you think the structure of a speech is important? If so, why?

Yes. I think the structure of a speech is important because it is important for a speech to be organized with organized thoughts, and the way your going to execute what's trying to be said.