| The
Entertaining Speech |
Objectives:
- Entertain the audience through use of humor
and/or drama drawn from your personal experience.
- Organize an entertaining speech for maximum
audience impact.
Time: 5-7 minutes |
|
Resources for Entertainment |
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.
Time: 8-10 minutes |
| Make
Them Laugh |
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.
Time: 8-10 minutes |
| A
Dramatic Talk |
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 interpretative manner.
Time: 10-12 minutes |
|
Speaking After Dinner |
Objectives:
- Prepare an entertaining after-dinner talk on a
specific theme.
- Deliver the talk extemporaneously, using the
skills developed in the preceding entertainment projects.
Time: 13-15 minutes |