No |
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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