1. The Entertaining Speech
Objectives:
- Entertain the audience through use of humor and/or drama drawn from your personal experience
- Organize an entertaining speech for maximum audience impact
- Time: 5-7 minutes
2. Resources for Entertainment
Objectives:
- 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
- Time: 5-7 minutes
3. Make Them Laugh
Objectives:
- 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
- Time: 5-7 minutes
4. A Dramatic Talk
Objectives:
- 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 interpretative manner
- Time: 5-7 minutes
5. Speaking After Dinner
Objectives:
- Prepare an entertaining after-dinner talk on a specific theme
- Deliver the talk extemporaneously, using the skills developed in the preceding entertainment projects
- Time: 8-10 minutes