Impromptu+Speaking

Impromptu Speaking

The ability to speak "off the cuff" is perhaps the most important type of speaking to learn. In order to do it well, you need to think on your feet and allow your message to travel from your brain to your mouth in a smooth and organized fashion.

For this speech, you will study the following quotations and then be ready to speak on one of them in a formal fashion. You will pick from among three choices, have a total of five minutes to prepare, and then give your speech.

Follow this format:

Introduction: Body: Conclusion:
 * Hook
 * Connection to audience
 * Preview Statement
 * Explain to the best of your ability your interpretation of the quote
 * Tell us whether you agree or disagree with the quote and tell us why using specific examples.
 * Review thesis
 * Refer back to introduction in some way.

You will be expected to speak no less than 2 minutes and no more than three minutes.

Good luck!

You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.

Human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives. **William James**

The more alternatives, the more difficult the choice. **Abbe' D'Allanival**

Family isn't about whose blood you have. It's about who you care about. **Trey Parker and Matt Stone**,

The man who has confidence in himself gains the confidence of others.**Hasidic Saying** It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.**Alec Bourne** An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't. **Anatole France (1844 - 1924)** It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. **Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC)** I wish people who have trouble communicating would just shut up. **Tom Lehrer (1928 - )** We cannot control the evil tongues of others; but a good life enables us to disregard them. **Cato the Elder (234 BC - 149 BC)** Doubt whom you will, but never yourself. **Christine Bovee**