Oh yes, I've given plenty of speeches. Lucky for me, I have the gift of the gab. I took speech class and it was an easy A. It comes naturally to me, but I can give some tips.
1. Do not overquote. Nothing more boring than listening to someone "read" for ten minutes.
2. Keep your notes in bullets. Generally it is best not to "write" your speech if you can help it. By only writing down important points that you want to talk about it forces you to make the speech flow a bit more naturally, and again you won't be "reading" as much.
3. Vary your voice inflection. If you sound like a monotone everyone will fall asleep.
4. Consider your audience. I personally am not going to be worded exactly the same when I give a speech to my classmates as opposed to speeches I've made to the town council or board of education.
5. It's natural to be nervous. As good as I am, I still get nervous as hell before a speech. After a minute or two I reach my comfort zone, but the best thing to do, is channel the nervousness into positive energy.
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that makes me so happy!!!! i didn't think anyone did...
I would like to write about the meaning of the ceremony... about how we feel that we have the power of transform our future, and how we create our own identity living in college. about the teachers and our classmates.
