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Task 3.1
GROUP WORK: Make a group consisting of three to four students. Discuss the
following questions. Present the result of your discussion in front of the class.
1. What kind of approach your group will use to attract neutral audience? Share
your ideas based on their characteristics.
2. What approaches are not suitable to use for hostile audience? Explain your
reasons.
3. What will your group do if your audience are both uninformed and expert
audience? Share your ideas in order to make your uninformed audience fully
given appropriate information and at the same time the expert audience are not
bored listening to your speech.
4. In your group opinion, who will be the hardest audience to handle? Explain your

reasons.

2. How to become an Audience-Centered Speaker

Since the audience will be the main reason for the speech event, the challenge in a
public speaking is actually to be an audience-centered speaker. It means that the
speaker must be able to deliver the speech to a group of people with different point of
views. To achieve this, doing an audience analysis before, during and after the speech is
a must.
a. Gather information about our audience.
The information can be gathered informally by observing our listeners or
asking general questions about them or
formally by taking a more formal approach
and administering a survey to get more
specific information about them.
b. Analyze the information gathered.
We can categorize and evaluate the
information gathered to determine the
listeners’ psychological profile. https://www.ibizaenglobo.com/
c. Use the information to ethically adapt to our
listeners.
Based on the information we get, we can
design and deliver the speech based on the
need and background of our audience.

After we get sufficient information about our audiences, we can start to adapt with
our audience. Audience adaptation is “the process of ethically using information we have
gathered when analyzing our audience to help our audience clearly understand our

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