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Developing an Effective Speech Plan
Speech Plan: A strategy for achieving your speech goal.
An effective speech plan for most speeches is based on the answers to these six (6) questions:
1. How can I develop a speech goal that is adapted to my audience?
2. How can I best adapt my speech to my audience?
3. Where can I find the kind of information that I need to achieve this goal?
4. How canI organize and outline this information in a way that is most likely to help me achieve my goal?
5. How can I create visual aids that will dramatize my information?
6. What can I focus on in practicing the wording and the delivery of my speech?

1. How can I develop a speech goal that is adapted to my audience?
Speech Goal: This is a statement of what you want your
audience to know, believeor do.
To achieve this goal, you begin by selecting a topic. No matter who you are, the advice for determining what to speak about is the same: select a topic that you know something about and that is important to you.
In real-life settings, people are invited to give speeches because of their expertise in a particular subject area. But even when an organization requests a speech in that area,selecting the topic is often in the hands of the speaker.
Subject: A broad area of knowledge, such as the stock market,
child psychology, baseball, or the Middle East.
Topic: some specific aspect of a subject, such as investment
strategies, how a child learns to talk, pitchers & their
pitches, or the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Brainstorming for Potential Topics
The goal of thispractice is to help you identify prospective topics for speeches.
Part A:
1. Divide a sheet of paper into three (3) columns.
Label Column 1 with your career choices or areas you might consider
working in.
Label Column 2 with hobbies or activities that you do or would like to
do.
Label Column 3 with concerns or issues that matter to you and your
world.
2. Working on one (1) column ata time, brainstorm a list of AT LEAST TWENTY (20) related topics for each category.
3. Choose one (1) topic IN EACH CATEGORY that attract you or that might be appropriate for your classroom audience.
Example:
Career Choices/Interests Hobbies/Activities Concerns/Issues
Disc jockey Soccer Crime
Marketing Music Corruption
Public relations Travel Environment
Teaching Photography Global warmingSales Tennis Women’s rights
Tourism Football Poverty
Hotel management Sailing Education
Computer programming Rock climbing Smoking
Doctor Dancing Drugs
Politics Singing Child abuse

Part B (Team Work):
1. Divide a sheet of paper into three (3) columns.
Label Column 1 with your chosen career choice.
Label Column 2 with your chosen hobby/activity.
Label Column 3 with your chosenconcern/issues.
2. Working on one (1) column at a time, brainstorm (with your team) a list of AT LEAST TWENTY (20) related points for each topic.
3. Discuss the results with your team members and choose the topic you want to do.
Example:
Career Choice/Interest Hobby/Activity Concern/Issue
Disc jockey Soccer Environment
CDs History Rain forests
Clubs Rules Air pollution
Radio stations EquipmentToxic waste
Technology Skills Extinctions
Artists Players Overpopulation
Concerts Field Lakes
Music trends Scoring Ozone Layer

* Voice-Face-Body Basics
Key Areas | Specific Trait | Explanation | Best Student & Comments |
Voice | Strong (volume) & Enthusiastic | Your voice should be loud enough so that everyone can hear you. You should act as though you really care about yourspeech; speak with interest in your topic. | |
| Speaking Rate | Your words should not be too fast or too slow. Adapt your rate to the context of your speech: slower for complex information, but faster if you are enthusiastic. Change the rate during the speech. | |
| Pitch | As you speak, your tone of voice can go up or down like a musical instrument. For example, when you are scared...