WORKING WITH SPEECHES

Dr. Rodrick Ndomba

Dar es Salaam University College of Education (DUCE)
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 SPEECH
An address

A formal communication to an audience -

written but solely to be read aloud
Serves to inform, instruct, entertain, and to
persuade.

The function leads to categorize speeches as

types – informative, instructive
(demonstrative), entertaining, and
persuasive
 Mutual exclusivity?

• The different purposes of speeches

are not mutually exclusive of one
another
• One may try to inform in an
entertaining style
• Another may inform the audience
and try to persuade them to act on
the information
 TASK 1
i. Identify FIVE (5) speech situations

ii. Say what type of speech is required in

each
 COMMON SPEECH TYPES

Informative
Informative speaking
generally centers on
talking about people,
events, processes,
places, or things.
Persuasive
Persuasive speaking is the type of speaking that
most people engage in the most. This type of
speech can involve everything from arguing about
politics to talking about what to eat for dinner.
Special occasion
A Special Occasion (or ceremonial,
commemorative, or epideictic) speech should pay
tribute or praise a person, an institution, an event,
idea, or place.
 The preachers maxim
• One of the best effective and the best
formulas of all times for preparing
speeches

• ‘Tell them what you gonna tell em, tell em

what you told em you gonna tell em, tell
em what you told em.’
 TASK 2

• Explain how would you incorporate the

preacher’s maxim in your speech
 Qualities of a good speech
Not just inform, educate, demonstrate, persuade, or
entertain, present facts and figures….

Use allusions – historical, religious, cultural

Engage a sense of humor
Use simple language
Use figures of speeches
Use sayings
Evoke emotions
 What to do in writing a speech
• Emphasize phrases by repeating at the
beginning of sentences
• Repeat key ‘theme’ words throughout your
speech
• Utilize appropriate quotations or allusions
• Use specific examples to ‘ground’ your
arguments
• Use metaphors to highlight contrasting
concepts
• Use humour to keep your listeners active
Important things in the speech

• Topic – identify the topic of a talk

• Purpose – reason(s)
• Audience – identify the people to be
addressed
• Risks – identify potential risk of the speech –
should there be some
• Evidence – to back up key arguments/points
– Statistics, facts, figures
 TASK 3

• Find any speech of your choice and identify

items mentioned above
Ends