Review: supporting materials and speech delivery

Which one is NOT the main purpose of supporting materials?

• to get audience's attention

• to help audience understand your main points

• to boost your credibility as a speaker

• to make audience agree with your arguments/ideas

What kind of supporting material is this?

"Our mental health is as important as our physical health. Therefore, we need to care about it as much."

• analogy

• definition

• narrative

• example

What kind of supporting material is this?

"I saw this morning, there was a long queue of students waiting to get onto the campus bus. Some of them decided to walk to the classroom, instead. This shows that we urgently need to improve our on-campus-public transport."

• definition

• statistics

• example

• analogy

What kind of definition is this?

“What's a school? It is a place where children can study and make friends.”

• dictionary

• expert

• functional

• etymological

What kind of speech it is where the speaker gives a speech while carrying a simple outline of the speech?

• impromptu

• extemporaneous

• memorized

• manuscript-based

What kind of speech is best chosen for a very formal situation where strict information accuracy is crucial with tight time frame?

• impromptu

• extemporaneous

• memorized

• manuscript-based

Which one is the weakness of an extemporaneous speech?

• hard to adapt the speech

• easily go off topic

• very inconsistent content

• difficult to control the speech length

Which one is the weakness of a memorized speech?

• may not sound natural

• easily go off topic

• very inconsistent content

• cannot be delivered multiple times

What kind of speech is being described below?

1. - seems natural

2. - sounds more conversational

3. - adaptable content

4. - easy to stay on topic

• memorized

• script-based

• impromptu

• extemporaneous