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The Entertaining Speaker
1. 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
2. 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: 5-7 minutes
3. 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: 5-7 minutes
4. 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: 5-7 minutes
5. 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: 8-10 minutes
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Advanced Speech Manuals
