communication

Presents a general overview of career opportunities for people with excellent communication and leadership skills, covering sales, public relations and fund-raising, marketing and advertising, politics, law, and education; and discussing job settings, earnings, training and education, and other topics.

Explains how to apply communication skills to speaking, listening and conversation.

As animals tell one another about Hippo's strange behavior, each makes up something terrible to add to the story, until they are frightened that Hippo will destroy the Serengeti itself.

The noisy fifth grade boys of Laketon Elementary School challenge the equally loud fifth grade girls to a "no talking" contest.

Explains different modes of communication used by people, from ancient times to the present.

Discussion of the methods of communication used before the telephone was invented, including drums, smoke signals, semaphore towers, carrier pigeons, the stage coach, the Pony Express, lanterns, Morse code, and the telegraph.

When Hen overhears some news on the farm, she runs to tell Duck, who tells another animal, and as the gossip is repeated from one animal to the next, it becomes unrecognizable.

As Pelican's news about a "spottyhipppomus" in the jungle spreads from animal to animal, the facts become monstrously distorted.

Discusses the many different kinds of communication and the functions they serve.

As one bunny passes the message on to the next, Sunny's plans for a surprise birthday party for Earl undergo some changes.