Giving Your First Speech
What are the 3 speech parts?
What is the introduction, body, and conclusion?
What is the body of a speech?
What is the main section of a speech meant to keep the audience's attention?
When picking a topic, you should choose a topic that you _____ or _______.
What are topics you know a lot about and topics you want to know more about?
What is the broad goal of a speech?
What is the general purpose?
During your speech, your eye contact should be _______.
What is spread across the class? or What is looking at everyone in the room?
What are major points developed in the body of a speech?
What are main points?
What two things does a conclusion need to do?
What are let the audience know the end is near and reinforce your mental idea/speech purpose?
What is a method of generating ideas by free association of words & thoughts?
What is brainstorming?
How long should a central idea be?
What is one sentence?
What are gestures?
What are motions of a speaker's hands and arms?
When developing a topic you should try to make it _____ and _______ to the audience.
What is interesting and meaningful to the audience?
Name three of the five ways to start a speech.
What are:
pose a question
a joke/humor
make a startling statement
quote
shocking statistic
What are three ways to brainstorm a topic?
What are personal inventory, clustering, and internet search?
What is the specific purpose?
What is a single infinitive phrase that states precisely what a speaker hopes to accomplish in his or her speech?
When delivering a speech, your notes on your notecard should be ____ because ________.
What is should be brief because after practicing, you should be able to fill in the rest or long notes could mess you up more than help?
Which kind of speech organization organizes a speech into main points that divide the topic into logical and consistent subtopics?
What is topical order?
The introduction of a speech should never start with...
What is "hi, my name is.... today I will be talking about?"
What are the three steps of choosing a topic in order?
What are thinking it through, making connections, having a discussion with myself?
Name two of the four guidelines for a central idea.
What are full sentences, not a question, avoid figurative language, and not overly vague or general?
To deal with nerves before a speech, what are 2/3 things you should do?
What are take it slow, breathe deeply, tighten and relax your muscles?
An extemporaneous speech is a speech that is what?
What is carefully prepared and rehearsed and presented from a brief set of notes?
What is one way not to end a speech?
What is "okay that's the end." or "I'm done." "That's all." "Well, that's what happened?"
Why is it important to pick a topic you're interested in?
What is you are more likely to care about and speak better on issues they know a lot about?
When going from a general purpose to the specific purpose to the central idea, you should get more _____.
What is more specific?
When practicing a speech, you want to see _____ as you rehearse, not _______.
What is progression, not immediate success?