1. Organizing Your Speech

2. Introduction
A way to introduce the topic you are going to discuss to your audience.
Introduction has 5 easy steps.
Attention Getter
Thesis Statement
Personal Credibility
Audience Relevance
Preview of Main Points

3. Startling Statement/Statistic
Attention Getter:
Best Way to Start off!
Quote
Question
Story
Startling Statement/Statistic
Humor 3

4. Attention Getter: Quote
Great for getting the audience interested in your topic.
Make sure that it relates in some way to what you are saying. 4

5. Obesity Speech- Thin people are beautiful, but fat people are adorable
Obesity Speech- Thin people are beautiful, but fat people are adorable. ~ Gleason, Jackie
Stop Smoking Speech- Smoking areas in restaurants are like peeing areas in swimming pools.
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Sports for Children Speech- The glory of sport is born at the moment when the game and the person become one, when all the complexity of one's life finds a moment to emerge in the game." ---Timothy Shriver, Ph.D.

6. Question: Another Great Way to start off. Simple but Effective
Question: Another Great Way to start off. Simple but Effective. Can be hypothetical or you can use it as an audience poll.
How Many of You Love McDonalds?
Who in here has a relative who smokes?
Have you ever wondered what it would be like to be part of a team?
Does anyone know how many people die every year from drunk driving accidents?

7. Attention Getters Story
Great way to include ETHOS or PATHOS into your speech.
Can be a personal story, or a story about someone else.
Helps if you get in to the telling of the story.

8. “I went to a party mom”

9. Startling Statement/Statistic
Attention Getters
Startling Statement/Statistic
Great way to include some LOGOS into your speech.
If you use this, you should cite your source so we know it is a real fact.

10. 1/7 preschool age children is obese Female high school athletes are:
1. 92% less likely to get involved with drugs
2. 80% less likely to get pregnant
3. 3 times more likely to graduate than non-athletes (Womens Sports Foundation)
1200 people die every day from tobacco related issues
2007 total alcohol related deaths was 15,387

11. Attention Getters Humor
Great way to start a speech that is not so serious.
If you are doing a speech that is about something good, like the benefits of something, this is a good way to go.

12. Jokes-
Q: What do you get when you offer a blonde a penny for her thoughts? A: Change
Funny Statements- “ You're looking at a playboy bunny!” – from the speech Fat Chance

13. Thesis Statement
What are you talking about?

14. Personal Credibility
Why should we believe you? Why should we trust you? Give the reader a reason to believe you, how are you knowledgeable about this topic?

15. Audience Relevance
Relate your topic to the audience! Tell the audience why they should care.

16. Preview of Main Points
Let the listener know what the main subjects you are covering will be We need to know when you will be finished!

17. Today, I am going to tell you about……
I will discuss……
In this speech, I will talk about…..
You will hear about…….

18. Organizing Your Speech

19. Main Points
Main Point-expresses the key ideas and major themes of a speech.
A main point should never introduce more than 1 idea.
A speech should have roughly 3-5 main points depending on the length requirement of the speech.

20. Supporting Details
Supporting Points represent the supporting material or evidence you have gathered to justify the main points.
There are two parts of supporting points
Coordinate Points
Sub coordinate Points

21. For Example

22. Example- Family Guy Speech
MP2- Great Characters
Peter Griffin-
very funny,
always getting in to trouble
fighting with chickens
Stewie-
a talking baby who is determined to rule the world and kill his mother.
Brian-
A talking dog who is probably the most intelligent person in the family
is environmentally aware
drives a prius.

23. Transitions Building a Bridge between parts of your speech.
Why are these important?

24. Transition Sentences
To help the speech flow better, the speaker should have a transition sentence between each of the main points.
The purpose of this sentence is to move from one subject to the next.
This sentence also helps to connect all the points together.

25. Above All
Furthermore
Accordingly
Granted That
Also
In Fact
Although
In other words
Around
Likewise
Chiefly
Moreover
Equally Important
Similarly
Even Though
Specifically
Except
Then
First
Thus
For Example
To illustrate
For this purpose

26. Conclusions
A way to end your speech. The listener needs to know that you are almost finished with what you are talking about. 26

27. Restate Main Points-remind the audience what your main points are.
Restate Thesis-remind the audience what your speech was about.
Restate Relevance-remind the audience why they should care.
Memorable Ending-End on a high note.

28. Always leave em wanting more!
Memorable Ending!
Always leave em wanting more!

29. Memorable Ending! Always leave them wanting more! End on a High Note
Lets the audience know when you are finished so they can clap.

30. Memorable Ending Quote
Great for finishing off your speech on a high note.
Make sure that it relates in some way to what you are saying. 30

31. “Only you can prevent forest fires. “ – Smokey the Bear
“Be the change you want to see in the world” Mahatma Gandhi
“A journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.” (Chinese proverb)

32. Memorable Endings Story
Great way to include ETHOS or PATHOS into your speech.
Can be a personal story, or a story about someone else.
Helps if you get in to the telling of the story.
Great to use as a tie in to a story used in introduction

33. Can tell the end of a story you started at the beginning of your speech
Can tell a story about someone who has benefited from the action you suggest be taken.
“Weight Loss Story”

34. Startling Statement/Statistic
Memorable Endings
Startling Statement/Statistic
Great way to include some LOGOS into your speech.
Great way to end with a bang.

35. “more than just a fat chance” - Speech Fat Chance
Today, roughly 199, 484 will successfully begin to quit smoking

36. Humor
Great way to end a speech that is not so serious.
If you want to end on a lighter note, this is the way to go.

37. Friendship is like peeing on yourself: everyone can see it, but only you get the warm feeling that it brings
Never take life seriously. Nobody gets out alive anyway.
“The NFL, like life, is full of idiots.” –Randy Cross

38. Types of Outlines

39. Outline Forms
Key Word-Only a few words for each main point and supporting statement (intro and conclusion should never be in key word)
Key Phrase- Select phrases to help the speaker stay on track
Full Text- Full and complete text of the entire speech written out.

40. How to Organize Information
There are many ways to decide what order to put things in. We will discuss more of these later. A few may be useful for your first speech.
Topical
Chronological
Compare and Contrast