Sample Speech Outline

Step One - Preparation

1. Topic: ANIMAL CRUELTY: ANIMAL TESTING

2. Audience:
◦ Age group(s) : all ages
◦ Gender : both
◦ Uniting characteristics or concerns: people that loves animals and wants them to protect
them from UNNECESSARY cruelty.

3. Title of speech:
- Why with experimenting with animals and not bad people?
- What is the reason of making animal testing so cruel
- The cruelty of animals in laboratories
- Animals also have rights like humans has

4. Purpose of speech:
Talking about that testing on animals should be banned or illegal

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Step Two – Introduction

1. Greeting & attention getter:

Should animals be used to make skin and hair products safer for humans? Why don’t we simply
use natural products instead of chemical-laden products to avoid hurting animals? Should
animals be considered lesser beings? Shouldn’t their vulnerability prompt us to treat them with
love and protection at all times?
I believe that animals have every right to be treated as well as humans.

2. Thesis Statement:
testing are available without the use of live animal specimens, testing potentially deadly
substances on animals is unnecessary.

3. Credibility:

4. Summative Overview: I’m going to talk about the unnecessary cruelty that animals have
especially in experimenting or testing on them and animal rights.

5. Benefit(s): By this you can understand how big animal cruelty is and no one is talking about it!
With more people agreeing with this we can stop this.
Step Three – Body

1. Transition - signals moving from introduction to body

2. Main Idea 1:

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3. Transition – signals moving from Main Idea 1 to Main Idea 2

4. Main Idea 2:

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5. Transition – signals moving from Main Idea 2 to Main Idea 3

6. Main Idea 3:

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7. Transition – signals moving from the body to the conclusion

Step Four – Conclusion

1. Summary of Main Points: 1, 2 & 3

2.Re-statement of Thesis (from Introduction)

3. Re-statement of Benefit(s) (from Introduction)

4. Closer, Clincher & Call to Action