TYPES OF SPEECH

ACCORDING TO
PURPOSE
INFORMATIVE
 Provide interesting and useful
information to your audience
 Give significant information
 Help the audience understand new
information
Goals of Informative
Speaking
 Present new information
 Provide new perspective on the topic
 Generate positive or negative feelings
about the topic
Strategies for Making Informative
Presentation Effective

 Keep it simple
 Make your topic relevant to the interests
and needs of your audience
 Pace the delivery of your speech
 Relate new information to what your
audience already knows
Demonstrative
 Demonstrative speeches are intended to
teach an audience how to do a specific
thing. They can be long and detailed, or
short and simple.
Persuasive Speech
 A persuasive speech aims to persuade or
convince people to change the way they
think or do something , or to start doing
something that they are not currently
doing.
 Persuasion is the use of speech to
influence the values, beliefs, attitudes,
or behavior of others through reasoning,
credibility, and identification.
Types of Persuasive Speech
 Speech to Convince
 Speech to Actuate
Entertaining Speech
 A speech to entertain aims to engage,
interest, amuse, or please the listeners.
 This is presented in situations where it

is necessary to build lighthearted mood

such as when making a speech at an
after-dinner party, leading a toast at a
friend’s wedding, or making remarks at
a birthday party for a colleague.