The Entertaining Speaker
The Entertaining Speaker
1 – The Entertaining Speech
Time: 5 – 7 minutes
Objectives:
- 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: 8 – 10 minutes
Objectives:
- 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: 8 – 10 minutes
Objectives:
- 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: 10 – 12 minutes
Objectives:
- 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 interpretive manner.
5 – Speaking After Dinner
Time: 13 – 15 minutes
Objectives:
- Prepare an entertaining after-dinner talk on a specific theme.
- Deliver the talk extemporaneously, using the skills developed in the preceding entertainment projects.