On 01.03.10, In Speech Ideas, By admin.
The first thing you should be concerned with is choosing your subject. You will enjoy giving your speech, and your audience will enjoy hearing it, if you talk about something you know about and are eager to discuss. Is there a subject you feel so strongly about that the “will to fight” is aroused in you? If so, talk about it, provided it is suited to the occasion at which you will be speaking, and also should fit the time framework allotted for presenting your talk.
SPEEECH IDEA 1. Life Experiences. The majority of public speeches today fall into the “life experience” category . Speakers talk about things they learned in school; about things they have learned from life; about something they have learned from other people; about something they have learned themselves, and they talk about their field of expertise. Each person is an expert at something, one thing that may have arisen out of a hobby, an illness or unexpected situation that required an innovative personal solution. A person’s field of experience might have no actual bearing on his occupation or on the subject he/she majored in at school. Yes, you too, are an expert, perhaps at several things you have mastered through your own personal life experiences. Many times a person gains expertise in something he/she has faced as a challenge – and has managed to surmount or solve.
SPEECH IDEA 2. The How-To-Do-It-Talk A popular approach to public speaking today is the “how-to-do-it” speech. The speaker introduces his/her subject, then tells the story of how he/she became an expert, and offers advice about how the audience can also benefit. He/she is talking about his/her own life experiences and how they might benefit the lives of his/her listeners. You could be an expert at something as simple as making old fashioned chicken soup with real homemade noodles. Maybe you have an expert way to make a major cross-country move while coping with little children. Possibly you are a young widowed father left with five little children to raise. You might even know of a unique way of traveling on a shoestring budget to places unfamiliar with most tourists. If this is the kind of talk you will be giving, remember that the audience is interested in what you have to say because they may benefit by your experience. Just be sure to talk about whatever you know well, do best and like most.
SPEECH IDEA 3. The “How It Happened To Me Talk”. This type of talk relates a true story, one that usually changed the speaker’s life. The word I is frequently used, since it is a true experience. Such a talk sometimes sounds like fiction because it is filled with drama.
SPEECH IDEA 4. The “Strictly Informative” talk . This is the most common style of talk. It is also the most impersonal . Rarely does the speaker use the words I or you. He is more likely to refer to “they” when talking about people. Or to “them” or “it” when discussing the facts. The speaker is like an objective reporter telling facts. Instead of using dramatic incidents as anecdotes, facts and figures are used, along with case histories.
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