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The Entertaining Speaker Expand

1. The Entertaining Speech
Time: 5-7 minutes
• Entertain the audience through use of humor and/or drama drawn from your personal experience.
• Organize an entertaining speech for maximum audience impact.

2. Resources for Entertainment
Time: 5-7 minutes
• Draw humorous and/or dramatic material from sources other than your own personal experience.
• Adapt your material to suit your topic, your own personality and the audience. Use entertaining material as a means of conveying a serious message.

3. Make Them Laugh
Time: 5-7 minutes
• Prepare a humorous speech drawn from your own experience.
• Strengthen the speech by adapting and personalizing humorous material from outside sources.
• Deliver the speech in a way that makes the humor effective.

4. A Dramatic Talk
Time: 5-7 minutes
• Develop an entertaining dramatic talk about an experience or incident, or give a dramatic reading.
• Include vivid imagery, characters and dialogue.
• Deliver the talk in an interpretative manner.

5. Speaking After Dinner
Time: 8-10 minutes
• Prepare an entertaining after-dinner talk on a specific theme.
• Deliver the talk extemporaneously, using the skills developed in the preceding entertainment projects.

Speaking to Inform Expand

1. The Speech to Inform
Time: 5-7 minutes
• Select new and useful information for presentation to the audience.
• Organize the information for easy understandability and retention.
• Present the information in a way that will help motivate the audience to learn.

2. Resources for Informing
Time: 5-7 minutes
• Analyze the knowledge level of your audience regarding your chosen subject.
• Focus your presentation at the audience’s level of knowledge.
• Build a supporting case for each major point through use of explanation, examples and information gathered in research.
• Effectively use at least one visual aid to enhance the audience’s understanding.

3. The Demonstration Talk
Time: 5-7 minutes
• Prepare a demonstration speech to clearly explain a process, product, or activity.
• Conduct the demonstration as part of a speech delivered without notes.

4. A Fact Finding Report
Time: 5-7 minutes plus 2-3 minute Q&A
• Prepare a report on a situation, event, or problem of interest to the audience.
• Deliver sufficient factual information in your report so the audience can base valid conclusions or a sound decision on it.

5. The Abstract Concept
• Research and organize the thought of experts on an abstract concept, theory, historical force, or social/political issue.
• Present the ideas in a clear and interesting manner.

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