The Entertaining Speaker – Objectives

Speech 1– The Entertaining Speech

• Entertain the audience through use of humor and/or drama drawn from your personal experience.
• Organize an entertaining speech for maximum audience impact.
• Time: Five to seven minutes

Speech 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 a means of conveying a serious message.
• Time: Eight to ten minutes

Speech 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.
• Time: Eight to ten minutes

Speech 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.
• Time: Ten to twelve minutes

Speech 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.
• Time: Thirteen to fifteen minutes