"The Entertaining Speaker" Advanced Manual

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Speech title

Objectives

Duration

1

The Entertaining Speech

Entertain the audience through use of humour and/or drama drawn from your personal experience.
Organize an entertaining speech for maximum audience impact.

5-7 minutes

2

Resources for Entertainment

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 means of conveying a serious message.

8-10 minutes

3

Make Them Laugh

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 humour effective.

8-10 minutes

4

A Dramatic Talk

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.

10-12 minutes

5

Speaking After Dinner

Prepare an entertaining after-dinner talk on a specific theme.
Deliver the talk extemporaneously, using the skills developed in the preceding entertainment projects.

13-15 minutes

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