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. |