The purpose of your speech is to inform the audience about a global issue.
What is an effective beginning to hook your audience?
Techniques you could use in your speech to add effect:
- Rhetorical questions
- Repetition
- Listing – the power of three
- Quotations, facts and figures
- Formal language
- Juxtaposition/contrast
- Direct address to the audience
WRITING IT UP
– be clear about your audience and the purpose of your speech (to inform and discuss different perspectives on a global issue)
Introduction:
Introduce your topic, perspectives, and the main points you will cover.
Think about how you will hook in the audience:
- rhetorical question
- simple sentences can add impact
- use an anecdote
- use a quote
Body of your speech:
Give three or four main points and/or perspectives, then give details and examples, and add your perspective on the point.
Conclusion:
Leave an impression on your audience.
Excerpt from Martin Luther King’s ‘I have a dream’ speech
I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the colour of their skin but by the content of their character.
I have a dream today!
I have a dream that one day, down in Alabama, with its vicious racists, with its governor having his lips dripping with the words of interposition and nullification; one day right there in Alabama little black boys and little black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls as sisters and brothers.
I have a dream today!