Speech

Question 1

General purposes that all speeches fall into

Answer 1

to inform
to persuade
to entertain.

Question 2

To inform

Answer 2

Informative speeches can focus on objects, people, events, concepts, processes, or issues. It is important to remember that your purpose in an informative speech is to share information with an audience, not to persuade them to do or believe something.

Question 3

To persuade

Answer 3

There are two basic types of persuasion: pure and manipulative. Speakers who attempt to persuade others for pure reasons do so because they actually believe in what they are persuading an audience to do or think. Speakers who persuade others for manipulative reasons do so often by distorting the support for their arguments because they have an ulterior motive in persuading an audience to do or think something. If an audience finds out that you’ve been attempting to manipulate them, they will lose trust in you.

Question 4

To entertain

Answer 4

Entertainment speeches can be after-dinner, ceremonial, or inspirational. Although there may be informative or persuasive elements to your speech, your primary reason for giving the speech is to entertain the audience.

Question 5

Reasons why people give speeches

Answer 5

To convey information or insight.
To persuade
To motivate

Question 6

Ways to Open a Speech or Presentation

Answer 6

• Opening with a relevant quote can help set the tone for the rest of your speech
• Immediately drawing your audience into your speech works wonders. Asking a “what if” question invites the audience to follow your thought process.
• A similar method, but more relevant for sensational examples. It puts your audience members directly into the presentation by allowing each member to visualize an extraordinary scenario.
• Ask a rhetorical or literal question. When someone is posed with a question, whether an answer is called for or not, that person intuitively answers.
• A pause, whether two seconds or 10 seconds, allows your audience to sit and quiet down. Most audiences expect a speaker to begin immediately. An extra pause brings all the attention right where you should want it – on you.
• Use a surprising, powerful, personalized statistic that will resonate with the audience to get your message across right away. It has the potential to trigger the audiences’ emotional appeal.
• A statement or phrase can catch the audience’s attention by keeping them guessing as to what you’re about to say next. Implementing the silence technique afterwards also adds to the effect.

Question 7

Ways to close a speech or presentation

Answer 7

• Plan Your Closing Remarks Word For Word
• Always End A Speech With A Call To Action. It is especially important to tell the audience what you want it to do as a result of hearing you speak.
• End A Speech With A Summary
• Close With A Story
• You can close with humor. You can tell a joke that loops back into your subject and repeats the lesson or main point you are making with a story that makes everyone laugh.
• You can close with a poem.
• You can end a speech with something inspirational as well.
• When you say your final words, it should be clear to everyone that you have ended. There should be no ambiguity or confusion in the mind of your audience. The audience members should know that this is the end.
• When you have finished your talk, the audience members will want to applaud. What they need from you is a clear signal that now is the time to begin clapping.

Question 8

Steps to pick a perfect speech topic

Answer 8

1. IDENTIFY THE NATURE OF THE SPEAKING EVENT AND PURPOSE BEHIND IT
2. KNOW YOUR AUDIENCE
3. THINK OF YOUR PERSONAL INTERESTS, KNOWLEDGE AND EXPERIENCES
4. IDENTIFY ANY RELEVANT LATEST NEWS
5. BRAINSTORM ALL POSSIBLE IDEAS
6. MAKE A SHORT LIST OF POSSIBLE TOPICS
7. MAKE A DECISION AND COMMIT TO IT

Question 9

Being a great public speaker

Answer 9

1. Limit your talk to one major idea. Ideas are complex. You need to reduce content so that you can focus on the single most important idea and explain it properly. Give context, share examples and make it vivid. Your one idea should be the theme of your entire talk and everything you say should link back to it in some way.
2. Give your listeners a reason to care. Make them curious. Use intriguing, provocative questions to identify why something doesn’t make sense and needs explaining. If you can reveal a disconnect in someone’s worldview, they’ll feel the need to bridge that gap. And once you’ve sparked that desire, it will be easier to start building your idea.
3. Build your idea based on concepts that your audience already understands. Speakers often forget that many of the terms and concepts they live with are completely unfamiliar to their audiences. This is the curse of knowledge. We forget what it was like when we knew nothing about our subject. So use language that the audience understands. Start where they are. Metaphors can help bridge the knowledge gap because they link the new idea to an idea that the listener already understands.
4. Make your idea worth sharing. It has to benefit the audience. If the idea only serves you or your organization, it’s probably not worth sharing. But if your talk can benefit the audience in some way, it has the potential to be a great one.

Question 10

FIVE CHARACTERISTICS YOU NEED TO SUCCEED AS A PUBLIC SPEAKER

Answer 10

Be confident
In order to effectively communicate your speech, you need to have a passion for the subject.
To be a successful public speaker, you must first understand who you are and what your strongest qualities are.
Always be yourself and not a duplicate of a “would be”.
A good speech should be conversational in nature. It should engage the audience as much as possible