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Example Topic: Importance of Africa How many of you have drank coffee this morning? How many of you have worn a cotton shirt? [Audience raises their hands]
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Get the Attention of the Audience: Anyone feel hot in here? I sure do. How many people here feel hot, raise your hand. [Questioning the Audience]
Main Point If you are feeling hot like me, then perhaps you need what I need, air conditioning in your dorm now! Here are some reasons why.
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Example: Importance of Road Safety Everyday thousands of people die on Chinese roads. Tens of thousands more families go bankrupt from loosing income and health expenses.
Tell a story and explain why it doesn’t relate to your topic.
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Example: Introduction to a Writing Course “I know of no sword so sharp as the pen, no blood thicker than the ink of the written word. If knowledge is power, writing is war.” – William Shakespere
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Example: After explaining the grading of a writing course.
This course is one of the hardest writing courses in the university. The majority of my students fail……to use proper punctuation. I will help you to improve
Example: Describing how things are not as they seem. “A cloud by day and a pillar of fire by night.” – Moses (in Exodus)
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Reinstate the main points addressed in the introduction.
Refer back to the introduction. If the introduction was a question, then
answer your question, if it was a quote then address your quote, if it was a story, then rehash the story.
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Eye Contact/Posture/Etc.
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Grammar
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1) Introduction: Bring in the Audience. 2) Main Point 3)th 2 facts. 4) Supporting Point 2: With 2 facts 5) Conclusion 6) Bibliography Slide
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Reveal the topic of your speech and then.... Get the attention of the audience by: 1) Concern the audience 2) Emphasize the Importance of Your Topic 3) Surprise the Audience in Some Way 4) Question the Audience 5) Tell A Story 6) Begin With a Quote
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Example: Warning Students About Low Grades Look to the left of you, look to the right. One of you will not be here next semester.
Example: Cancer How many of you are over 35, smoke, or drink often? (Wait for the hands to go up) All of you are at risk….
Grading: Total 50 Points
Get the audience’s attention 5
Introduction: Main Idea
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Supporting Idea 1
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Supporting Idea 2
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Concluding Statement
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Evidence for Your Ideas
All of you have been involved with something invented in Africa.
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Take something from your daily life and related it to your topic.
Tell a funny story and relate it to your topic. (the hurricane helicopter joke)