#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 interpretative 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.