The Entertaining Speaker

The Entertaining Speaker

#1 - The Entertaining Speech
Time: 5 - 7 minutes
Objectives:

Entertain the audience through use of humor and/or drama drawn from your personal experience.

Organize an entertaining speech for maximum audience impact.

#2 - Resources for Entertainment
Time: 8 - 10 minutes
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.

#3 - Make Them Laugh
Time: 8 - 10 minutes
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.

#4 - A Dramatic Talk
Time: 10 - 12 minutes
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 interpretive manner.

#5 - Speaking After Dinner
Time: 13 - 15 minutes
Objectives:

Prepare an entertaining after-dinner talk on a specific theme.

Deliver the talk extemporaneously, using the skills developed in the preceding entertainment projects.

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