Problem
How do you prepare to give a speech on any occasion, to audiences in your home country and overseas?
Answers
Planned Speeches - The Planning
Carry a card with facts on your favourite subject. (For example, if you are anti-smoking, some statistics.)
Go to Toastmasters International meetings.
Impromptu Speeches - The Planning
How to give an impromptu, or apparently impromptu, speech.
Have a set of ten speeches on which you are an expert. That could be ten speeches on one subject, or ten different subjects. Then you can adapt any of these to the more popular questions.
For example, supposing your subject is football. Think up ways you can adapt the subject as a speech for different occasions. If you are asked, what do you do in your spare time, the answer is football. If you are asked about fitness, the answer is football. If you are asked who is your hero, the answer is a football player.
If you are asked about business, your answer is how your favourite club runs its finances, sells, tickets, sells souvenirs, buys players. If you are asked to tell a joke, have a couple of football jokes ready. If you are asked about your last holiday, talk about a football museum or visit to a stadium or an international football match.
If you are asked about your local area, talk about the football club. If you are told somebody doesn't like football, have a subject you can switch to, or relating to half a dozen other interests. Your favourite film - is one about football.
Inspiration
You could do a speech modelled on a famous speech. Or a parody. But try it out to be sure it doesn't offend anybody. For example, listening to Martin Luther King on I have a dream, you could start, I have a nightmare. You then either write a humorous parody, or talk about how you overcame your fear of flights or fear or flying.
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Author
Angela Lansbury, travel writer and photographer, author and speaker.
How do you prepare to give a speech on any occasion, to audiences in your home country and overseas?
Answers
Planned Speeches - The Planning
Carry a card with facts on your favourite subject. (For example, if you are anti-smoking, some statistics.)
Go to Toastmasters International meetings.
Impromptu Speeches - The Planning
How to give an impromptu, or apparently impromptu, speech.
Have a set of ten speeches on which you are an expert. That could be ten speeches on one subject, or ten different subjects. Then you can adapt any of these to the more popular questions.
For example, supposing your subject is football. Think up ways you can adapt the subject as a speech for different occasions. If you are asked, what do you do in your spare time, the answer is football. If you are asked about fitness, the answer is football. If you are asked who is your hero, the answer is a football player.
If you are asked about business, your answer is how your favourite club runs its finances, sells, tickets, sells souvenirs, buys players. If you are asked to tell a joke, have a couple of football jokes ready. If you are asked about your last holiday, talk about a football museum or visit to a stadium or an international football match.
If you are asked about your local area, talk about the football club. If you are told somebody doesn't like football, have a subject you can switch to, or relating to half a dozen other interests. Your favourite film - is one about football.
Inspiration
You could do a speech modelled on a famous speech. Or a parody. But try it out to be sure it doesn't offend anybody. For example, listening to Martin Luther King on I have a dream, you could start, I have a nightmare. You then either write a humorous parody, or talk about how you overcame your fear of flights or fear or flying.
Toastmasters International - find a club
https://www.toastmasters.org/find-a-club
Author
Angela Lansbury, travel writer and photographer, author and speaker.
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