Informative Speech

Informative Speech

Key elements

The Introduction

• The grab

• Introduce yourself

• The topic

Multiple Select

What might be a good way to introduce your topic? (There is more than one answer.)

• I want to talk to you about how dinosaurs went extinct.

• What happened to the dinosaurs? Let's take a look at what might have happened.

• There are movies where an astroid hits the Earth or almost hits the Earth. It's fascinating because that's what we think happened to the dinosaurs.

The Grab

• It's anything that catches the listener's attention.

• Questions, fun facts, a picture, a sound

• Should be related to the topic, but not usually one of the facts in the body of your speech.

Multiple Select

What would make a good grab? (There is more than one answer.)

• Some dinosaurs were carnivores and some were herbivores.

• Are there dinosaurs living today? There are!

• I am going to talk about dinosaurs.

The Body

• The body should stay on topic.

• Main points or ideas should be in order.

Multiple Select

Choose all details that closely match the topic given before. (There is more than one answer.)

• An asteroid hit the Earth and killed many dinosaurs.

• The T-Rex lived during the Cretaceous period.

• The asteroid caused forest fires, which killed even more dinosaurs.

• I have a lot of dinosaurs toys at home.

The Conclusion

• Restates the topic

• Can summarise the speech

• Thanks the audience

Multiple Select

What might be a good way to close your speech?

• It's sad that dinosaurs went extinct, but, who knows, we might not be here if they hadn't! Thank you for being such a good audience!

• The dinosaurs went extinct because an asteroid and volcanos caused cold, dark weather for a long time. Only certain animals and plants were able to survive. I hope this helps you look at the world around us differently. I sure do! Thanks and good bye!

• Bye!