The Entertaining Speaker (226A)

Overview: Projects address preparing and delivering an entertaining speech and incorporating humor into different aspects of speaking.

Project Speeches:
(Content garnered from member manuals and other Toastmaster clubs and may not be complete)

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: 5-7 minutes.

2) Resources for Entertaining: 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: 8-10 minutes.

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: 8-10 minutes.

4) A Dramatic Talk: Develop an entertaining dramatic talk about an experience or incident, or give a dramatic reading.
Time: 10-12 minutes.

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 entertaining projects.
Time: 13-15 minutes.

 

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