Durack Toastmasters

Durack Toastmasters – Durack Building, Perth WA, 7am Thursdays

Manuals

/ The Entertaining Speaker

  1. The Entertaining Speech

    • Time: 5-7 minutes
    • Objectives:
      • Entertain the audience through use of humour and/or drama drawn from your personal experience.
      • Organise an entertaining speech for maximum audience impact.

     

  2. Resources for Entertainment

    • Time: 8-10 minutes
    • Objectives:
      • Draw humourous and/or dramatic material from sources other than your own personal experience.
      • Adapt your material to suit your topic, your own personality and the audience. Use entertaining material as a means of conveying a serious message.

     

  3. Make Them Laugh

    • Time: 8-10 minutes
    • Objectives:
      • Prepare a humourous speech drawn from your own experience.
      • Strengthen the speech by adapting and personalising humourous material from outside sources.
      • Deliver the speech in a way that makes the humour effective.

     

  4. A Dramatic Talk

    • Time: 10-12 minutes
    • Objectives:
      • Develop an entertaining dramatic talk about an experience or incident, or give a dramatic reading.
      • Include vivid imagery, characters and dialogue.
      • Deliver the talk in an interpretative manner.

     

  5. Speaking After Dinner

    • Time: 13-15 minutes
    • Objectives:
      • Prepare an entertaining after-dinner talk on a specific theme.
      • Deliver the talk extemporaneously, using the skills developed in the preceding entertainment projects.