The Entertaining Speaker

# Project Objectives Minutes
1 The Entertaining Speech
  • Entertain the audience by relating a personal experience;
  • Organize an entertaining speech for maximum impact.
5-7
2 Resources for Entertainment
  • Draw entertaining material from sources other than your own personal experience;
  • Adapt your material to suit your topic, your own personality, and the audience.
5-7
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 humor effective.
5-7
4 A Dramatic Talk
  • Develop an entertaining dramatic talk about an experience or incident;
  • Include vivid imagery, characters and dialog;
  • Deliver the talk in an entertaining manner.
5-7
5 Speaking After Dinner
  • Prepare an entertaining after-dinner talk on a specific theme;
  • Deliver the talk using the skills developed in the preceding projects.
8-10