Speech Tips

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Speech Tips

• Step one planning
• Step two writing
• Step three delivery

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PlanningSolid foundations for your effective
preparation
-- formal or informal?

• The occasion

-- happy or sad?

• The audience

-- familiar or unfamiliar?

• The purpose of your speech

-- persuading or arguing?
-- making the audience laugh or not?
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Writing structure

• first 30 seconds
• raise a thought-provoking question
• make an interesting or controversial statement
• recite a relevant quotation
• recount a joke

• The beginning

• The body

• The closing

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Writing structure

• Formulate a series of points that you would like
  to raise.
• The points should be organized
• It is better to have fewer points that you make
  well than to have too many points

• The beginning

• The body

• The closing

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Writing structure

• must contain some of your strongest material
• Summarize the main points of your speech
• Provide some further food for thought for your
  listeners
• Leave your audience with positive memories of
  your speech
• Choose the final thought/emotion (wishes, memory,
  and admiration, etc.)

• The beginning

• The body

• The closing

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Delivery scripts, notes or memory?

• Reading from a script

• Using notes

• Reciting from memory

-- Your choice?
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Delivering tips

• Make sure that your appearance is well presented.
• Speak clearly, and adjust your voice so that
  everyone can hear you. Don't shout for the sake
  of being loud.
• It is common to speak rapidly when nervous, try
  to take your time speaking.
• Effectively used a pause in your speech can be
  used to emphasis a point, or to allow the
  audience to react to a fact, anecdote or joke.

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Delivering tips

• Make eye contact with your audience. This helps
  to build trust and a relationship between the
  speaker and the listeners.
• Do not fidget or make other nervous gestures with
  your hands. - Do not keep your hands in your
  pockets. Do use hand gestures effectively.
• Be yourself, allow your own personality to come
  across in your speech.

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Speech Tips

• Step one planning
• Step two writing
• Step three delivery

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Planningfor our own speech
friendly sincere

• The occasion

-- informal

• The audience

-- familiar

• The purpose of your speech

-- Sharing information
-- Practicing our oral English purposely
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Writing structure
-- How to open your speech to attract your
audience?

• The beginning

-- How many points? --How to organize them?

• The body

• The closing

-- In what way?
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A speech from the Legally Blonde
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• On our very first day at Harvard, a very wise
  professor quoted AristotleThe law is reason
  free from passion. Well, no offence to Aristotle,
  but in my three years at Harvard, I have come to
  find that passion is a key ingredient to the
  study and practice of law and of life. It is with
  passion, courage of conviction, and strong sense
  of self, that we take our next steps into the
  world. Remembering that first impressions are not
  always correct, you must always have faith in
  people and most importantly, you must always have
  faith in yourself. Congratulations, class of
  2004. We did it.

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Four Score and seven years ago our fathers
brought forth on this continent a new nation,
conceived in liberty and dedicated to the
proposition that all men are created equal.
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that these dead shall not have died in
vainthat this nation, under God, shall have a
new birth of freedomand that government of the
people, by the people, for the people, shall not
perish from the earth.
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Five score years ago, a great American, in whose
symbolic shadow we stand signed the Emancipation
Proclamation. This momentous decree came as a
great beacon light of hope to millions of Negro
slaves who had been seared in the flames of
withering injustice. It came as a joyous
daybreak to end the long night of captivity.
But one hundred years later, we must face the
tragic fact the Negro is still not free.
--I have a dream (1963)
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When we let freedom ring, when we let it ring
from every village and every hamlet, from every
state and every city, we will be able to speed
up that day when all of God's children, black
men and white men, Jews and Gentiles,
Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join
hands and sing in the words of the old Negro
spiritual, "Free at last! free at last! thank
God almighty, we are free at last!"
I have a dream
Let freedom ring
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Expecting your speech next time!