Advanced Manual Details: The Entertaining Speaker

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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

This information is provided as a service to our members.  For full details on each project, refer to the Advanced Speaker manual.