Impromptu Speaking

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Impromptu Speaking

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IMPROMPTU SPEAKING

• Speaking on the spur of the moment with little
  time to prepare

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IMPROMPTU SPEAKING

• TIPS

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Choosing a Topic

• Choose very quickly from the three topics you are
  given
• Leave you with maximum amount of time to develop
  your speech

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Choosing a Topic

• Look for topic that you have more knowledge about
• May be faster to eliminate one or two topics

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Intein Crystal Prior to Protein Splicing
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Brain Surgery
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Apples
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Choosing a Topic

• Have great difficulty with all of the topics
• Distort topic to make it a topic you can talk
  about

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Example

• Topic
• Glen of Imaal Terrier
• Could talk more generally about dogs or terriers

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BRAINSTORMING TOPIC

• Technique for generating ideas
• Focus is on creativity
• Done quickly

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BRAINSTORMING TOPIC

• Review list
• Find natural groupings for different thoughts
• Groupings main points of your speech

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Rule of 3

• Three main points
• Three sub points for each main point
• Not absolute

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Why?

• One or two points not enough to speak about
• More than three difficult for us to follow

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Things That Come in Threes Are

• Inherently funnier
• More effective

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Slogans
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APPLES
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APPLES
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Practice with Partner
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• Other Types of Speech Delivery

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• Speaking from a Manuscript
• Speaking from Memory
• Extemporaneous Speaking

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Speaking from a Manuscript

• Involves writing out the entire speech and
  reading it to the audience

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Speaking from a Manuscript

• Advantages

• Good method when exact timing is required
• Good method when exact wording is required for
  sensitive issues

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Speaking from a Manuscript

• Disadvantages

• Difficult to sound spontaneous
• Listeners think they are being read to
• More likely to lose interest

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Another Problem with Manuscript Speaking

• Difficult for speaker to respond modify the
  speech if audience is bored or inattentive

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Manuscript Confines Speaker to the Lecturn

• Because.
• Thats where the manuscript is

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Did you teach him to speak?
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Speaking from Memory

• Write out the entire speech

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Speaking from Memory

• Committing it to memory word for word

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Speaking from Memory

• ADVANTAGES

• Exact Wording
• Phrases Sentences can be crafted

• Problems in language can be eliminated
• Able to set to inflexible time limit

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Speaking from Memory

• Disadvantages

• Can create considerable pressure

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It can turn a lump of coal into a flawless
diamond-
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Or an average person into a perfect basketcase
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Disadvantages

• Speaker has to spend time memorizing speech

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Disadvantages

• Likely to worry about forgetting

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Disadvantages

• Making a memorized speech sound natural and
  spontaneous requires considerable talent

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Extemporaneous Speaking

• Speaker delivers a speech from notes

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Extemporaneous Speaking

• Memorize
• Introduction
• Main Ideas
• Conclusion

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Extemporaneous Speaking

• Advantage

• Permits Flexibility
• Speaker can adjust to feedback of the audience
• Comes closest to good conversation
• Speaker can be natural responsive to audience

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Extemporaneous Speaking

• Disadvantages

• Speaker may stumble over or grope for words
• Can be remedied by rehearsal
• Or write down exact words or phrases

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Best Method of Delivery

• Extemporaneous Speaking

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Which Type of Delivery?
Manuscript
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Which Type of Delivery?

• Speech 2
• Informative Speech

• Extemporaneous

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Which Type of Delivery?

• Speech 3
• PowerPoint

• Extemporaneous

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Which Type of Delivery?

• Speech - 4
• Persuasive

• Manuscript

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Which Type of Delivery?

• Speech 5
• Demonstration Speech

• Extemporaneous

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Which Method of Delivery Was Not Used?

• Speaking from Memory