U2C2L3 Delivering your Speech

Many educated people find themselves giving impromptu speeches without the benefit of research and planning.

If you are one of these people, what technique would you recommend to others when they give these types of speeches?

• Focus your speech on the demographics of the audience.

• Try a format like: "Past, Present, and Future."    

• Be sure to practice beforehand.

• Use natural pauses like: "Uh," "You know," and "Oh, wait," when you are thinking what you want to say next.            

Peggy gave a speech at the convention and it got absolutely no response from the audience because she wasn't able to conduct an audience analysis.

Which type of speech did she most likely give?  

• Persuasive speech

• Commemorative speech

• Impromptu speech

• Humouous speech

You have determined the general and specific purposes of your speech, and have some information on your topic but you haven't started to conduct your research.

What should you do next?          

• Write the introduction for your speech.

• Write a thesis statement for your speech.

• Write an outline to help write your speech.

• Prepare your visual aids for your speech.

Study the list and select the option that correctly places the steps for preparing a speech in order. Preparing a Speech:

1. Analyze the purpose of the speech and the audience.

2. Conduct research and gather information.

3. Support your ideas.

4. Organize all the material.

5. Draft and edit the speech.

6. Practice and get feedback.     

• It is in the correct order.

• Switch Step 1 with Step 2.

• Switch Step 3 with Step 4.           

• Switch Step 5 with Step 6.           

T or F: Public speaking is the greatest fear among people, greater than the fear of dying, flying, or failure.

• True

• False

Which of the following are coping strategies for lessening the fear of public speaking?    

• Remember that your audience shares your fear of public speaking; Remember the audience is there to hear you

• Concentrate on the subject; Remember your nervousness does not show

• Prepare; Practice; Breathe deeply

• All of the choices            

What elements can be included to make a speech persuasive?

• Logic, testimony, statistics, facts

• Strong language, varying tones of voice, emotional appeal

• Brain puzzles, testimony, questioning

• Engaging jokes, humor, statistics

Define "voice modulation."

• To change or vary the pitch, intensity, or tone of one's voice.      

• To control the octave of one's voice while singing.

• Lessons one takes to gain (or lose) one's accent.

• All of the choices            

When you speak clearly and effectively, you are said to be __________.

• articulate

• eloquent

• effective

• effusive

Choose the term that best completes the sentence below.

Another __________ to deal with nervousness is to realize that you look more confident than you actually feel.

• constructive strategy

• coping strategy

• speech structure

• constructive criticism