SPEECHCRAFT
Presented By:
Name of Club:
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WHAT IS SPEECHCRAFT ?
• To guide participants on the skills of
public speaking
• Opportunity for participants to present 3
to 6 minutes speeches, introduce
speakers, serve as evaluators, speaking
on your feet
• As a tool to build club membership and
build new clubs
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OBJECTIVES OF
SPEECHCRAFT
• Develop leadership skills
• Teach public speaking skills
• Marketing tool to create Toastmasters
awareness
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FEATURES
• Table Topics
• Prepared Speeches
• Evaluation
• Role playing
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DUTIES OF ROLE PLAYERS
• Sergeant at arms
• Toastmasters of the evening
• Table Topics Master
• Table Topics evaluators
• Grammarian
• Ah Counters
• Humor Master
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DUTIES OF ROLE PLAYERS
• Timer
• Recorder
• Speech evaluators
• General Evaluator
• Chairman of the meeting
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AGENDA
• Introduction to Public Speaking
• Duties of role players
• Ice breaker and introduce a speaker
• Speaking with sincerity
• Organise your speech and Speech Evaluation
• Show what you mean
• Vocal Variety
• Work with Words
• Graduation Speech
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SPEAKING AND
COMMUNICATION
• Speaking speaker delivering a message
to a listener one way traffic
• Communication speaker delivering a
message, listener listens and provide
feedback 2 way traffic
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PURPOSE OF
MAKING A SPEECH
• To inform
• To persuade
• To entertain
• To motivate
• To inspire
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IMPROMPTU SPEECHES
• Topical or ABC method names of people,
places and things
• Cause - Effect method why something
happened and what happened as a result
• Problem – Solution method problems and
solutions
• Geographical method east to west, north to
south, one country to another
• Chronological method making a comparison 10
ICE BREAKER
• To begin speaking before an audience
• To introduce yourself to your fellow
speechcrafters
• Discussion
– Insight understaning of you as an individual
– Structure - introduction, body and conclusion
– Rehearsing – note cards, script and time
management
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THE SPEECH No. 1
• Values gained by the audience
• Introduction
– Attention getter
• Body
– Make a statement supporting facts
• Conclusion
– Review, appeal or memorable statement
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THE GROUP WORK
• Preparing your Ice breaker speech
• Select 2 or 3 areas where you like the members
to get to know you more
– Birth place, parents, family, education, & career
– Ambition, goals in life & personal expectation
– Contributions to society
– Personal beliefs
– Life objectives
– Hobbies and friends
– Community you live in
Timing for the speech – 2 to 3 minutes 13
INTRODUCING A SPEAKER
• Introduction to grab the audience’s
attention
– Expertise of the speaker
– Set mood for the audience for the particular subject
• Body
– Why this subject ?
– Why this speaker ?
– Why this audience ?
– Why at this time ?
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INTRODUCING A SPEAKER
• Conclusion
– To lead to the actual presentation of the speaker
– Stand to lead the applause
– Shake the speaker’s hand
– Continue leading the applause
• Speak to the speaker to make an outline of the
introduction, and rehearse
• After the speech, mention a few words of
appreciation
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SPEAK WITH SINCERITY
• To convince the audience of your
earnestness, sincerity, and conviction
on a subject you thoroughly
understand
• To confront and control any
nervousness you may have
• Time: 3 to 5 minutes
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THE SPEECH No. 2
• Sincerity and Conviction
– Advocate a point of view which you feel strongly
– Be natural and forceful
– Expression shall be combination of your thought and
strong feeling
• Primary Goal
– Convey sincerity and conviction to your audience
• Speak with confidence
– Direct the speech to yourself and the topic
– Add excitement
– Thorough research the topic and speak with confidence
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THE SPEECH No. 2
• Select your subject
– From A to Z subjects
– Have a definite point of view protest or appeal
• Show your concern
– Make the audience interested in the subject
– Identify source of your concern
– Show them how the problem can be solved
– Bring audience understanding and sympathy to your
side, ready to support you in your conviction
– Something is wrong and how to put it right
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GROUP WORK
SPEECH NO. 2
• Identify a topic of concern to you
• List all the points why it is of concern to you
• Gather facts and information to support your
concern
• Deliver the speech
– Introduction – impact to show concern
– Body – facts and information to support your
concern
– Conclusion – appeal for actions or if the concern is
not observed what will be the
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ORGANIZE YOUR SPEECH
• To organize your thoughts into a
logical sequence that leads the
audience to a clearly defined goal
• To build a speech outline that
includes an opening, body and
conclusion
• Time: 3 to 5 minutes
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SPEECH NO. 3
DISCUSSION
• As a Speaker
– To persuade them to accept your ideas
– What must I do ?
• As a Persuader
– Analyze what motivate your audience to agree with you
– Develop your ideas to supply that motivation
• Define Your Mission
– Decide what to talk about
– Ensure subject is focused
• Presentation’s Mission
– What you want to inpsire, entertain or inform ? 21
SPEECH NO. 3
DISCUSSION
• What organize the speech
– You are the seller of the idea
– To enable audience to think logically
• Develop and outline
– Assemble ideas in a logical sequence
– Organize into 3 parts introduction, body and
conclusion
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GROUP WORK SPEECH NO. 3
• Prepare a speech of interest to the
audience
• Deliver it in a logical sequence
• Introduction
– To catch immediate attention
– To arouse interest
– To lead into the speech subject
– To help listeners to remember
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GROUP WORK SPEECH NO. 3
• Body
– Contain the factual information
– Brainstorm all ideas
– Classify them into 3 major points
– Explain each points with facts, ideas, story and quote
authority
• Conclusion
– Audience can remember best what it hears last
– Closing with a memorable statement
– Reinforce your ideas/message
– Summary of what you have said
– Appeal for action, story, quotation or illustration 24
GROUP WORK SPEECH NO. 3
• Transition
– Use smooth transition when moving from
introduction to conclusion
– Introduction attention getting
– From preview to Body
– In the body from one point to another
– From the body to conclusion
– In the conclusion from the review to the memorable
statement
• Write your speech
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SHOW WHAT YOU MEAN
• To learn the value of gestures and body
movements as part of a speech
• To explore the different ways of using
body language
• To develop a sense of timing and natural
smooth body movement
• Time: 3 to 5 minutes
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SPEECH NO. 4 DISCUSSION
• What is Body language ?
– Body movement, eyes contact, facial expression
• Why use body language ?
– To illustrate and emphasize the points
• Seeing is believing
– To express sincerity and conviction
• Movement
– Standing in one place
– Moving around
– Movement emphasize message
– Purposeful and appropriate movement 27
SPEECH NO. 4 DISCUSSION
• Gestures
– Involves hands, arms to illustrate a point
• Facial expression
– Eyes, eyebrows, mouth
– Sadness, fear, happiness, frustration, excitement
– Interest, confidence and uncertainty
• Eye Contact
– Expression of sincerity
– Respect
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GROUP WORK NO. 4
• Choose a subject where it involves body
movement
– Dancing, mountain climbing, camping, driving
– Boxing, music, fishing, jogging, exercise
• Identify the speech objective – to inform, to
persuade, to entertain, to motivate or to inpsire
• List all the ideas and points
• Have an interesting introduction, body with
facts and interesting conclusion
• Write the speech
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VOCAL VARIETY
• To explore the use of voice, volume,
pitch, rate and quality as assets to your
speech
• To apply the principles of a well
developed voice to a praticular speech
• Time: 3 to 5 minutes
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SPEECH NO. 5 DISCUSSION
• Build a speaking voice
– Involve your mind, body and voice
– As a tool to impress people
– Awareness
– A desire to work at it
• Kinds of voice
– Reasonant, musical and easy to listen
– Harsh, monotonous or tiresome
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SPEECH NO. 5 DISCUSSION
• A good speaking voice
– Loud enough to be heard
– Clear enough to be understood
– Expressive enough to be interesting
• Volume
– Loud enough to be heard
• Pitch
– Vary pitch to convey emotion and conviction
• Rate
– 120 to 160 words per minute
• Quality
– Relax your throat, eliminate tension 32
GROUP WORK NO. 5
• Choose a subject that lends easily to the use of
vocal variety
• To quote or imitate different tones or voices or
manners of speaking
– The vocie I like
– An experience I would not repeat
– A voice in the night
– Use your imagination to portray daily life
situations
• Write your speech 33
WORK WITH WORDS
• To gain an understanding of the
functions and uses of the spoken word
• To select precisely the right words
required to communictae your ideas
• To avoid common mistakes in word use
• Time: 3 to 5 minutes
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SPEECH NO. 6 DISCUSSION
• Thinking and speaking
– Translate thoughts & feelings into a spoken language
• What words do ?
– Label and classify
– Relate an inicdent
– Loaded
– Make attitudes permanent
• Speaking style
– Spoken words should be easily understandable to the
ear
– Clarity, simple words, appropriateness, vividness 35
SPEECH NO. 6 DISCUSSION
• Clarity
– Short and simple sentences
– Words used should be specific and concrete
• Appropriateness
– Choose words to relate directly to audience
– Use words and ideas that place the speaker
• Vividness
– Use alive words conveying mental images
– Words of feelings
– Use of stories, word pictures and actions words
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GROUP WORK NO. 6
• Select a subject that will allow you to use words
in a precise manner
• To discuss words themselves
– Common mistakes
– Histories of words
• Words carefully choosen
– Clear, accurate, colorful, vivid and appropriate to the
audience
• Write your speech
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SPEECH EVALUATIONS
• Why evaluations ?
– Finding out areas for improvement from more
experienced speakers
• Methods of evaluations
– Open discussions
– Selling
– Asking questions
– Pro and Cons
– Use evalutation forms
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THE SPEAKERS
WANT TO KNOW......
• What was good about my speech ?
• What can be improved ?
• Did I get the points across ?
• What do you sugest by way of helping me
to improve ?
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EVALUATIONS
- PIN METHOD
• P stands for Positive
• I stands for Interesting
• N stands for Negative
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EVALUATIONS
POINT OF EMPHASIS
• The openings
• The conclusions
• The body
– Statement and material
– Supporting facts
– Delivery
– Result
– Message
• Areas for improvement
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SPEECHCRAFT
GRADUATION
• If you have been following through all the
sessions of the speechcraft, you will have
done at least 6 speeches
• You shall receive a certificate from
Toastmasters International to confirm that
you have successfully attended the
speechcraft session
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