How to Make an Eloquent Speech
A good speech should have:
1. A clear message and purpo.
2. Interest to the audience.
3.Adequate development of ideas.
4.A clear structure.
5. An entertainment element—humor and /or word pictures.
6. Appropriate language.
A good speaker should be:
1.Confident.
2.Considerate of his audience.
3.Tidy and clear in appearance.
4.Fluent in language. (Both vocal and unvocal)
5.Familiar with the topic.
6.Familiar with the environment.
1. The Introduction
In most speech situations, there are four purpos you need to accomplish at the outt:
1) Get the attention and interest of your audience.
2) Reveal the topic of your speech.
3) Establish your credibility and goodwill.
4) Preview the body of the speech.
A. Relate the Topic to the Audience
Today I am going to talk about collecting postcards—a hobby that is both fascinating and financially rewarding. I would like to explain the basic kinds of collectible postcards, why they are so valuable, and how collectors buy and ll their cards.
It’s Saturday morning, and you are helping clean out your grandmother’s hou. After working a
while, you stumble upon a trunk, open it, and discover inside hundreds of old postcards. Thinking about getting to the football game on time, you start tossing the cards into the trash can. Congratulations! You have just thrown away a year’s tuition.
B. State the Importance of Your Topic
Of the many threats to our public health, youth violence is the one that threatens not only each of us individuals, but also the very fabric of our nation. I’d like you to imagine some 300 students from our college among us now. Three hundred students would fill about more than two times of this room. That’s how many students will be attacked or robbed in our country during the 10 minutes I’ll be speaking to you.
C. Startle the Audience
Take a moment and think of the three women clost to you. Who come to your mind? Your mother? Your sister? Your girlfriend? You wife? Your best friend? Now guess which one will be xually assaulted during her lifetime. It’s not a pleasant thought, but according to the US Department of Justice, one of three American women will be xually assaulted sometime during
her life.
D. Arou the Curiosity of the Audience
Each of you has a gift. What kind of gift is it? It’s not a Christmas gift or a birthday gift. It’s not some special talent or skill. It’s a gift that could save a life—maybe more than one. If you decide to give it, you lo nothing. Some people bury their gift. Others burn it. All but one of you who completed my questionnaire would gladly receive the gift, but only 20percent of you have decided to give it. This gift is the donation of your vital organs when you die.
E. Begin with a story
We usually do not have a high opinion of people who drop out of school. Well, I want to mention a man who did just that. He never finished college. In stead, in the 1970’s he tinkered in is garage with a relatively new gadget called the computer. Instead if being concerned with how to build a better computer or even different computer, this young man focud his attention on the software programs that might run on the computer. Today, Bill Gates is the richest man in the world, and the company he founded, Microsoft, makes programs for most of the computers in the world. Not bad for a college dropout.
F. Ask a rhetorical question
Can anyone deny that Taiwan is a part of China? Are not most of the people living on Taiwan Chine? Is not Chine the language of Taiwan? Is not the policy of the united Nations a one-China policy? Then, ladies and gentlemen, I suggest to you that it is only a matter of time before Taiwan completely unified with China, just as we saw happen with Hong Kong and Macao.
G. Begin with a Quotation
2. The Conclusion
Purpos of conclusion
A. Summarizing the main points.
B. Reemphasizing the main point in a memorable way
C. Providing closure.
D. Motivate the audience.
3. Organizing the body
A. Selecting the Main Points of the Topic
B. Strategic Order of Main Points
Chronological Order
Spatial Order
Problem-Solution Order
Topical order
Speech Language
Part I Using Language Accurately
Part II Using Language Clearly
U familiar language. Gettysburg Address contains only 271 words, of which 251 have only one or two syllables.
Part III Using Language Vividly
With globalization, the same a washes all of human kind. We are all in the same boat. There are no safe islands. (Kofi Annan)
I speak as a Republican. I speak as a woman. I speak as a United States Senator. I speak as an American.
