Our Next Meeting 19th January 2009

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Feature

The Entertaining Speaker

Speech objectives

1. The entertaining speech (timed at 5-7 minutes)
  • Entertain the audience by relating a personal experience
  • Organise an entertaining speech for maximum impact
2. Resources for entertainment (timed at 5-7 minutes)
  • Draw entertaining material from sources other than your own personal experience
  • Adapt your material to suit your topic, your own personality and the audience
3. Make them laugh (timed at 5-7 minutes)
  • Prepare a humorous speech drawn from your own experience
  • Strengthen the speech by adapting and personalising humorous material from outside sources
  • Deliver the speech in a way that makes the humour effective
4. A dramatic talk (timed at 5-7 minutes)
  • Develop an entertaining dramatic talk about an experience or incident
  • Include vidid imagery, characters and dialogue
  • Deliver the talk in an entertaining manner
5. Speaking after dinner (timed at 8-10 minutes)
  • Prepare an entertaining after-dinner talk on a specific theme
  • Deliver the talk using the skills developed in the preceding projects

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