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1. The Entertaining Speaker
(Cat No. 226-A)
1 - The Entertaining Speech (5-7 minutes)
* Entertain the audience through use of humor and/or drama drawn from your personal experience.
* Organize an entertaining speech for maximum audience impact
2 - Resources for Entertainment (5-7 minutes)
* Draw humorous and/or dramatic material from sources other than your own personal experience
* 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 (8-10 minutes)
* Prepare a humorous speech drawn from your own experience
* Strengthen the speech by adapting and personalizing humorous material from outside sources
* Deliver the speech in a way that makes the humor effective
4 - A Dramatic Talk (10-12 minutes)
* Develop an entertaining dramatic talk about an experience or incident, or give a dramatic reading.
* Include vivid imagery, characters and dialogue
* Deliver the talk in an interpretive manner
5 - Speaking After Dinner (13-15 minutes)
* Prepare an entertaining after-dinner talk on a specific theme
* Deliver the talk extemporaneously, using the skills developed in the preceding entertainment projects
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