TFL 359 -PUBLIC SPEAKING QUIZ 2

The first steps in preparing a speech are (tick all that apply):

• Prepare your outfit

• Survey your audience

• Select and narrow down your topic

• Determine your main purpose

According to the guidelines for selecting a topic, the topic of your speech should (tick all that apply):

• be relevant to inetersts of the listeners

• be relevant to expectations of the listeners

• take into account the knowledge listeners

• choose topics that are important

Is given statement TRUE or FALSE: When selecting a topic, considering an occasion is important.

• TRUE

• FALSE

A problem solving technique that is widely used in such diverse fields as business, advertising, writing, and science, _____________ can easily be used to generate ideas for speech topics as well. (Please type using lowercase letters only.)

Listening and Reading for Topic Ideas is a bad strategy.

• TRUE

• FALSE

What are the guidelines for selecting a topic?(tick all that apply)

• Consider your audience

• Consider an occasion

• Consider yourself

• Consider everything

The general purpose, or overarching goal of any speech is either....: (tick all that apply)

• to provoke

• to inform

• to entertain

• to persuade

An informative speaker is a teacher. They give listeners information. They _______,________,or _________ a thing,person, event, proces, etc.

• inform, attract, engage

• inform, define, explain

• define, decribe, explain

• attract, describe, define

___________ speakers may offer information, but they use the information to try to change or reinforce an audience's convictions and often to urge some sort of action.

• Informative

• Good

• Entertaining

• Persuasive

The concise statement of what you want your listeners to know, feel, or be able to do when you finish speaking.

• The general purpose

• Specific purpose

• Central idea

• Main idea