1 Speech Tips Step one: planning Step two: writing Step three: delivery

2 Planning: Solid foundations for your effective preparation  The occasion  The audience  The purpose of your speech -- familiar or unfamiliar? -- persuading or arguing? -- making the audience laugh or not? -- formal or informal? -- happy or sad?

3 Writing: structure  The beginning  The body  The closing first 30 seconds raise a thought-provoking question make an interesting or controversial statement recite a relevant quotation recount a joke

4 Writing: structure  The beginning  The body  The closing Formulate a series of points that you would like to raise. The points should be organized It is better to have fewer points that you make well than to have too many points

5 Writing: structure  The beginning  The body  The closing must contain some of your strongest material Summarize the main points of your speech Provide some further food for thought for your listeners Leave your audience with positive memories of your speech Choose the final thought/emotion (wishes, memory, and admiration, etc.)

6 Delivery: scripts, notes or memory?  Reading from a script  Using notes  Reciting from memory -- Your choice?

7 Delivering tips:  Make sure that your appearance is well presented.  Speak clearly, and adjust your voice so that everyone can hear you. Don't shout for the sake of being loud.  It is common to speak rapidly when nervous, try to take your time speaking.  Effectively used a pause in your speech can be used to emphasis a point, or to allow the audience to react to a fact, anecdote or joke.

8 Delivering tips:  Make eye contact with your audience. This helps to build trust and a relationship between the speaker and the listeners.  Do not fidget or make other nervous gestures with your hands. - Do not keep your hands in your pockets. Do use hand gestures effectively.  Be yourself, allow your own personality to come across in your speech.

9 Speech Tips Step one: planning Step two: writing Step three: delivery

10 Planning: for our own speech  The occasion  The audience  The purpose of your speech -- informal -- familiar -- Sharing information friendly&sincere -- Practicing our oral English purposely

11 Writing: structure  The beginning  The body  The closing -- How to open your speech to attract your audience? -- How many points? --How to organize them? -- In what way?

12 A speech from “the Legally Blonde”

13 passion couragesense of self faith On our very first day at Harvard, a very wise professor quoted Aristotle:The law is reason free from passion. Well, no offence to Aristotle, but in my three years at Harvard, I have come to find that passion is a key ingredient to the study and practice of law and of life. It is with passion, courage of conviction, and strong sense of self, that we take our next steps into the world. Remembering that first impressions are not always correct, you must always have faith in people and most importantly, you must always have faith in yourself. Congratulations, class of We did it.

14 “Four Score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.”

15 “…that these dead shall not have died in vain—that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom—and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.”

16 “Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand signed the Emancipation Proclamation. This momentous decree came as a great beacon light of hope to millions of Negro slaves who had been seared in the flames of withering injustice. It came as a joyous daybreak to end the long night of captivity.” “But one hundred years later, we must face the tragic fact the Negro is still not free. …” --I have a dream (1963)

17 I have a dream… Let freedom ring… When we let freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual, "Free at last! free at last! thank God almighty, we are free at last!"

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