Oral Presentation Guide

FIRST QUARTER ORALS WORKSHEET

Name Vanessa Sevilla Time for speech: 2-4 minutes

Read the DIRECTIONS column first. Then type in the TYPE YOUR SPEECH HERE column. Reread it aloud over and over to revise. It will not be graded for grammar and spelling but for content and organization. When you have the speech ready, read it into a recorder.Prepare for your speech by listening over and over.

To finally prepare for your speech, write key words from each section in the KEY WORDS section to help you remember. Make the words in this column lean and mean. Consider this an outline. For your final rehearsal, fold back the KEY WORDS column and try to give the speech without looking at your typed text. If you forget a section, thenHighlight that section in the middle column. Finally, take your key words and make an outline on a note card. (See the note card template on Blackboard.)

|DIRECTIONS |TYPE YOUR SPEECH HERE. |KEY WORDS |
|THE HOOK |YOURHOOK (type here): | |
|Consider the following suggestions from Toastmasters: | | |
|The opening should immediately catch the audience's attention and | ||
|tell the audience what you will be talking about. Examples of a good| | |
|opening are: | | |
|A startling question or a challengingstatement | | |
|An appropriate quotation, illustration or story | | |
|A display of some object or picture || |
|An attention-getting generalization that ties in with your subject | | |
|AVOID these weak openings: | | |
|An apologeticstatement | | |
|A story or joke that does not relate to your topic | | |
|A commonplace observation delivered in a commonplace manner || |
|A long or slow-moving statement or story | | |
|A trite question, such as "Did you ever stop to think...?" | ||
|“Speeches.” Toastmasters, University of Tennessee. 1 August 2007. 1 | | |
|April 2008. | | |
|YOUR PROJECT |YOUR...