Delivering Your Speech I

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Delivering Your Speech I
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Delivering Your Speech

• Define extemporaneous speaking.
• Internalize your speech.
• Prepare speaking outline.
• Polish your delivery.

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Delivering Your Speech

• Define extemporaneous speaking.
• Internalize your speech.
• Prepare speaking outline.
• Polishing your delivery.

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Define extemporaneous speaking.

• What it is not.
• Manuscript. Speech that is read to an audience
  from a written text.
• Impromptu. A speech that is not planned or
  prepared in advance.
• Memorized. Speech that has been written out,
  committed to memory, and given word for word.

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Define extemporaneous speaking.

• What it is.
• Extemporaneous speaking. A carefully prepared and
  practiced speech that is delivered from brief
  notes (rather than from memory or a written
  manuscript).
• Advantages combines a conversational style with
  a speaking outline. Encourages careful
  organization.
• Disadvantage requires practice time. Speakers
  may be tempted to memorize the speech.

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Delivering Your Speech

• Define extemporaneous speaking.
• Internalize your speech.
• Prepare speaking outline.
• Polishing your delivery.

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Internalize your speech.

• Repetition from sentence outline.
• Look away and back at your speech.
• Know your speech.

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Delivering Your Speech

• Define extemporaneous speaking.
• Internalize your speech.
• Prepare speaking outline.
• Polishing your delivery.

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Prepare speaking outline

• Once you know your speech,
• Make minimal notes on note cards.
• Include performance notes.
• Write complete sentences for difficult
  information.
• Stats
• Quotes
• Transitions
• Stories
• Be able to deliver the speech from minimal notes.

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Delivering Your Speech

• Define extemporaneous speaking.
• Internalize your speech.
• Practice with energy.
• Polishing your delivery.

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Polishing your delivery.

• Mirror.
• Practice
• Make list of gestures, posture, eye contact to
  work on.
• Practice list.
• Audio record.
• Record your speech.
• Make a list of vocal variety, pronunciation,
  dialect elements to work on.
• Practice list.
• Do speech for friends/family.
• Perform speech.
• Ask for feedback and make a list of comments.
• Practice list.
• Stage a dress rehearsal.
• Dress.
• Perform speech cold. Do not stop.

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Activity

• Examine your Introduction.
• 2 minutes to internalize the Introduction.
• 2 min to write a Speaking Outline.
• 2 min to practice your introduction.
• Deliver your speech. We will do as many as we can
  in the time allotted.

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Reflection on activity.

• What are 3 things you feel you need to work on?
• How much time do you think you need to practice?