The Entertaining Speaker
People like to be entertained and the entertaining speaker offers listeners a pleasant diversion from their demanding lives. This manual offers five projects that will help you develop your skills as an entertaining speaker.
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1. The Entertaining Speech
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5-7 minutes |
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Entertain the audience through use of humor and/or drama drawn from your personal experience. |
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Organize an entertaining speech for maximum audience impact. |
2. Resources for Entertainment
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8-10 minutes |
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Draw humorous and/or dramatic material from sources other than your own personal experience. |
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Adapt your material to suit your topic, your own personality and the audience. Use entertaining material as a means of conveying a serious message. |
3. Make Them Laugh
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8-10 minutes |
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Prepare a humorous speech drawn from your own experience. |
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Strengthen the speech by adapting and personalizing humorous material from outside sources. |
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Deliver the speech in a way that makes the humor effective. |
4. A Dramatic Talk
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10-12 minutes |
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Develop an entertaining dramatic talk about an experience or incident, or give a dramatic reading. |
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Include vivid imagery, characters and dialogue. |
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Deliver the talk in an interpretative manner. |
5. Speaking After Dinner
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13-15 minutes |
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Prepare an entertaining after-dinner talk on a specific theme. |
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Deliver the talk extemporaneously, using the skills developed in the preceding entertainment projects. |
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