Speech tips?

[Twin Beadles]

I have to a give a sspeech to a class in 20 hours, any good advice?

[CeltsGarlic]

make everyone laugh

[Budadiiii]

Download dual n back.

http://brainworkshop.sourceforge.net/

If you play this little brain game you will notice your ability to improvise will be greatly improved. You'll just be more sharp in general.

Obviously prepare you speech, write it down, memorize it.. etc

Play with dual n back up until your speech and your ability to execute will be much easier.

Good luck, dont worry too much. Just a 9th grade speech and will be forgotten tomorrow. No one really cares what you have to say or how you're going to handle it. They're all nervous about their speech or worried about their own personal lives to be over-analysing some weird asian kid.

Don't forget to take your cold shower and you'll be fine.

[outbreak]

remember to look up and try to keep it casual. I sucked at speeches originally because I tried to be too formal and serious, once I realised I could just be myself and keep it more casual I become much better and actually made it to the finals for the public speaking award my school ran. What do you have to give the speech on? It helps a lot if it's a subject you actually care about

[andgar923]

Practice... practice... practice

Also memorize your shit which Im hoping comes naturally after you practice.

Don't stand behind the podium, walk around and be engaging, try to find that comforting face and pretend it's a conversation between you two.

Also, talk before you start your speech. Don't try to be too focused right before. You need to loosen up your vocal chords, your face, your body, etc.etc. so go ahead and talk to people to relax all your muscles and your voice. Go find somebody to have a chat with, it can be about anything and everything. If your body and vocal chords are relaxed you'll feel more comfortable.

But all of that is useless if you don't know your material. So memorize it from top to bottom.

Don't just memorize it in your head, say that shit out loud, rehearse like you're performing it.

[DCL]

get off insidehoops and go rehearse the shit like 100 times.

[outbreak]

Practice... practice... practice

Also memorize your shit which Im hoping comes naturally after you practice.

Don't stand behind the podium, walk around and be engaging, try to find that comforting face and pretend it's a conversation between you two.

Also, talk before you start your speech. Don't try to be too focused right before. You need to loosen up your vocal chords, your face, your body, etc.etc. so go ahead and talk to people to relax all your muscles and your voice. Go find somebody to have a chat with, it can be about anything and everything. If your body and vocal chords are relaxed you'll feel more comfortable.

But all of that is useless if you don't know your material. So memorize it from top to bottom.

Don't just memorize it in your head, say that shit out loud, rehearse like you're performing it.

I found I was much better off memorizing the key points and flow of the speech rather than word for word, when i got up to talk I'd be saying the same points but making up how I said them as I went which felt more natural and fluid than trying to remember word for word what I'd written, I never really read it out loud before hand or used cue cards, I'd just have a sheet of paper dot points for each thing I would be bringing up like a set list of songs

[DukeDelonte13]

i do a lot of public speaking for my job. The posters above are correct.

Practice Practice Practice! Practice your speech in the shower. Practice the speech in the car. Practice the speech before bed. Practice the speech in front of your friends, parents, SO, whatever. Don't just think what you are going to say, actually practice speaking aloud even if it's by yourself.

By the time you are done practicing you should only need bullet points to look at. Don't stand there like a statue either. Move around a little bit, use your arms.

don't forget to maintain a conversational tone.

rookie mistakes:

[CeltsGarlic]

Well, I actually never write my speech or memorize it, cause I just like to throw it at them right off the head. It helps me to avoid, if someone interrupts with a question or something like that.

Never memorize!

[Budadiiii]

Well, I actually never write my speech or memorize it, cause I just like to throw it at them right off the head. It helps me to avoid, if someone interrupts with a question or something like that.

Never memorize!
I don't think that's very good advice for a nervous kid with social anxiety issues. You risk freezing up and really screwing the pooch with that route.

I say he should have everything he wants to say pretty much memorized and rehearsed in his head as much as possible. That way, if he does freeze up a little, he will have stuff memorized in his head to say even when he's not all there. He can go into auto-pilot mode when the fight-or-flight hits.

If he takes my advice and plays the brain game he should have no trouble at all.

[DCL]

yeah, you should have most, if not all of it, memorized, so you can reduce the "uh's" and "uhm's" and other pauses when your head is searching for a fancy word or description. then you practice the whole thing until it kinda sounds like it's coming off the top of your head rather than a boring monotone memorized speech. the trick is to memorize it but not give any impression that you've memorized it. and you can only get that with practice unless you're super articulate and experienced.

[JEFFERSON MONEY]

Tips

- Fix your posture, stand chest up, center your heels

- Go in there with the mentality of someone out there that has something important to say. Imagine yourself as a

- Be brief and poignant.

- Sprinkle only shades of safe humor. Yes it's fuking gay. Yes it's fuking lame. Yes every time you are in a conference in academia people will use light, corny stuff and never use edgier Russell Brand Sasha Baron Cohen stuff but you know what I'm saying.


- Use lots of pregnant pauses and louder tonaltiy for the big stuff.

- Some of the most effective tactics at garnering interest include using a rhetorical question and engaging them.

- Know your audience inside and out. Know what buttons and hot issues make them tick. Know what resonates with them. Speak their language.

You are obviously not an exemplar of LOGOS, so you are going to have to make up for it by compensating in ETHOS AND PATHOS.

Read a few articles on Greek oratory.

For inspiration
I'd recommend...
Looking at Cyrus body language in The Warriors
Steve Jobs commencement speech
Obama ni general is sharp
JFK and Clinton
Look at how passionate Al Pacino is in giving monologues in Devil's Advocate and that football movie any given sunday

[Budadiiii]

Tips

- Fix your posture, stand chest up, center your heels

- Go in there with the mentality of someone out there that has something important to say. Imagine yourself as a

- Be brief and poignant.

- Sprinkle only shades of safe humor. Yes it's fuking gay. Yes it's fuking lame. Yes every time you are in a conference in academia people will use light, corny stuff and never use edgier Russell Brand Sasha Baron Cohen stuff but you know what I'm saying.


- Use lots of pregnant pauses and louder tonaltiy for the big stuff.

- Some of the most effective tactics at garnering interest include using a rhetorical question and engaging them.

- Know your audience inside and out. Know what buttons and hot issues make them tick. Know what resonates with them. Speak their language.

You are obviously not an exemplar of LOGOS, so you are going to have to make up for it by compensating in ETHOS AND PATHOS.

Read a few articles on Greek oratory.

For inspiration
I'd recommend...
Looking at Cyrus body language in The Warriors
Steve Jobs commencement speech
Obama ni general is sharp
JFK and Clinton
Look at how passionate Al Pacino is in giving monologues in Devil's Advocate and that football movie any given sunday
And do all of this in under 6 hours.

[andgar923]

http://www.amazon.com/The-Presentation-Secrets-Steve-Jobs/dp/0071636080

[JMT]

Practice. Drill. Rehearse.

Use a recording device and a mirror. How you deliver the material, both verbally and your body language, sell the topic.

Break it up into passges that make sense to you. Master each passage. Then just deliver them.

There are no secrets. Been doing it for decades and nothing replaces the basics.

Be confident. Look happy to be doing it. Good luck!

[JEFFERSON MONEY]

Budadii if you want novelty and a quick ego boost, download Mind Games Pro on your Android.

Celebrate as you see how you rank amongst the 21-30 crowd hehe.

[knickballer]

Just remember that everyone else in the class is going to shit their pants and no one gives a shit about your speech.


But like what others mentioned practice in a mirror your speech. You'll be surprised how much you stutter at first in the mirror and then you'll start to improve.

Are clips allowed? If so use little youtube clips related to the material at points to ease your nerves and to give you a "timeout"(this part helps for me)

Have index cards with you. If you find yourself really nervous and don't think you can carry on just man it out and read those cards. It would still probably be better than the other shitheads in your class

[highwhey]

Watch steve jobs present an apple item

[MavsSuperFan]

practise

Once you know what you want to say and say it a couple of times, the pressure lifts and you perform better.

[flipogb]

know your topic, be all about whatever it is for the time being. If you know what you are talking about, you won't need to memorize or bring index cards. When you are comfortable with the subject, you can just get up there and start talking.

[B-Low]

know your topic, be all about whatever it is for the time being. If you know what you are talking about, you won't need to memorize or bring index cards. When you are comfortable with the subject, you can just get up there and start talking.

That's the biggest thing for me. I never practiced speeches, but instead just studied whatever I was talking about. Like you said that eliminates the need to look at cards or try to remember any facts.

DukeDelonte actually said a lot of my key points of advice. Repped Duke :cheers:

[JimmyMcAdocious]

Yep. Practice. That's really all there is to it. How long is the speech? Honestly, 1 minute or 8 minutes, it all feels about the same if you know the topic. Only time I ever noticed the time is when I had to give 12-15+ minute speeches.

Make sure you layout your speech "correctly", I suppose. Preview the topic, clear connectives, etc. You want to sound like it's a casual conversation, but it needs to be a bit more formally structured and formally spoken.

I always preferred a sheet of paper over note cards. My Com teacher used to be up our asses when you fiddle, or move around in general. As a beginner, it's probably best to stand straight still rather than worrying about gestures, unless that's something which comes naturally to you.

And like what others said, everyone will be worrying so much about their speech, they won't give a crap about yours. The audience doesn't notice your nervousness unless you blatantly show it (moving around, avoiding eye contact, and what not).

Then there's always the power of positive thinking. I get to give a speech, not I have to. Helps more than you think.

Good luck.

[tmacattack33]

Download dual n back.

http://brainworkshop.sourceforge.net/

If you play this little brain game you will notice your ability to improvise will be greatly improved. You'll just be more sharp in general.

Obviously prepare you speech, write it down, memorize it.. etc

Play with dual n back up until your speech and your ability to execute will be much easier.

Good luck, dont worry too much. Just a 9th grade speech and will be forgotten tomorrow. No one really cares what you have to say or how you're going to handle it. They're all nervous about their speech or worried about their own personal lives to be over-analysing some weird asian kid.

Don't forget to take your cold shower and you'll be fine.

Are you speaking on experience about using the n-back game yourself or are you writing about stuff you heard.

I used it for about 3 weeks daily this past April. It kinda got hard for me to set 30 minutes aside every day for that. Also it kinda was hard to keep going at it for 20 games straight.

At first it was fun in a way but then it became a pain and i guess that's what made me stop it. Any ideas on how to make it more bearable? Am I allowed to do 10 rounds, then take a break, and then do the other 10 rounds later?