It's day six. And today's lecture is introducing another framework. This framework today is called the problem solution framework. Or sometimes it's called the problem cause solution framework. What's an example using the problem caused solution framework? While I'm going to give you a more formal example, a little bit later on, but you may want to discuss something that is an issue for you or somebody else.

And then talk about various different ways you can solve that problem. To pad things out to bed or if you want to go into more detail. You can even describe the cause of that problem more later, but first, let's look at today's delivery tip and that is around using vocal variety. As speakers we Can and we should vary our vocal delivery to make our speaking more interesting to listen to, we can first of all, think about our pace. You motor speak very quickly because there's an urgent matter to attend to and you've got to get the information out very quickly. Or you may want to slow right down.

Either because the point is very serious. Or it may be that you want to convey a sense of relaxation. Or there could be numerous other reasons why you might want to slow down or speed up your rate of speaking, but that's one way we can add vocal variety to our speaking. Another way would be to change our pitch. You may have heard on that word pitch, I went very high. So high pitched again adds drama My gosh.

It's also speaking in a very deep voice like this can also lend gravitas to the situation. There's a whole range of different shades and moods that we can imply by changing our pitch. Now another way that we can vary our speaking, is by changing the volume. You may want to speak really loudly to get the point across. Or you may want to whisper mix it up. Don't be afraid.

Finally, we can add pauses. Now, pauses are a really easy way to add a bit of vocal variety to our speaking. And they are often overlooked. pauses are useful because perhaps we're thinking and we go silent. And the audience might might think it's because we're adding drama. pauses can also underline a point, we can pause before we're making a very important point, because we want to make sure everybody is listening.

So that's pace, pitch volume and pausing in the exercises to come. I suggest that you stay aware of your vocal variety and just mix it up a bit. Have fun, try something different. Today's example question is this one. What bad habit? Would you like to break?

Now, bear in mind that that question is about a negative situation about a bad habit. And that's where a little bells should go off. I could use the problem solution framework. In this particular case, I could answer a bad habit that I have is not drinking enough water. The reason for it is because I drive quite a few people for work, and I get out of the habit of drinking. Now, a solution to that problem might be to carry a water bottle with me all the time or perhaps set an alarm that goes off every hour to remind me to take a sip of water.

And remembering now vocal variety, I am fed up with not drinking enough. My body is de hydrated. It's time to change things. So next time I go on a car journey, I'm going to make sure I take plenty of water with me. I am resolved. I will solve this problem out.

So now it's your turn. Today, you have three and a half minutes to answer your question. And it's this How would you solve world poverty That was a tough question I just gave you, but hopefully you managed to speak for the full three and a half minutes. Now on to the next lecture where there are two more questions waiting for you, and I hope you have time to answer them.