Question

In 150 words or more, offer tips to giving a successful speech. Use details from President Kennedy’s speech and from other parts of the lesson to support your answer.

Answer 1

1. Push emotional buttons.
depended solely on dry logic failing to connect with the feelings of the audience. One spoke to the mind whereas the other to the heart.

2. Tell a story.
Make sure your talk has a structure. Start with a hook or something that grabs attention, and have a clear start, a middle and an end. Finish with impact so the audience takes away something at the end. Tell an anecdote, a story or an experience that the audience can relate to.

3. Use sensory language.
Just as in a dramatic performance, enable the audience to visualise or to feel by bringing your talk to life with the use of multi-sensory language. Appeal to their imagination and not just to their intellect.

4. Use body language.
use your eyes, your smile, the right gestures, movement etc if you want to be a great communicator who interacts with his audience.

5. Mind your back.
Posture is everything. Stand tall and don’t slouch. Place your feet slightly apart, square your shoulders, straighten your back and own the floor. If your mind can influence your body, the reverse is true too. Appearing confident can make you feel confident.

6. Modulate and Articulate
Train your voice to have the right pitch, intonation and volume suitable for the size and type of audience. Put expression in your voice as well as your face because a monotone is monotonous.

7. Remember the power of the pause.
don’t rush through your speech but pause a bit after every important point you make or when you make a transition from one point to the next.

8. Learn the three ps of making a speech.
You can learn and train to develop presence. Just as actors do, train or practice until it becomes natural – or as is said, fake it till you make it.

Answer 2

To give a successful speech you need to know what you are talking about and you need to support the thing your giving a speech about. You must know all the facts of whatever it is, otherwise, you will look like a fool and your speech will fail. If you are not passionate about the topic you give a speech about you won't be able to express feelings and just simply be stating something, this is not good because speeches are supposed to open people's minds and hearts and if your not passionate about it how could you expect to make someone else care? Lastly, you need practice. Practice, practice, practice. This will help you know how to say your speech, prevent slip ups, and gain confidence.

Those are my tips for giving a successful speech.

Hope it helped. Have great day!