PREPARING TO SPEAK

PUBLICLY
 Before we get up in front of an audience to give a speech, we must first answer these two
fundamental questions

 What am I speaking to?

 Why am I speaking to them?
 What is the appropriate topic?
 How long should I speak?
 What tone should I set?
These questions determine everything about your upcoming
speech, including preparation, content, and delivery.
 1. Dealing with anxiety
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The first steps to produce

_______ a good speech involves laying a solid
foundation for it by analyzing who will be in the audience, _______
_______ deciding
what we will be discussing and visualizing the actual setting of the
_______
event. _______
2. WHO WILL BE THE AUDIENCE

✗ How large will the audience be?

✗ What will the audience expect to hear from those
who are speaking?
✗ How much will the audience already know about
your topic? Will you be speaking to experts in the
field, or introducing some new topic which they are
unfamiliar?
✗ What are the age range of the audience?
WHO WILL BE THE
AUDIENCE
Ex:
- Situation 1: we are probably already a member of that
group and know many of the people in the audience.
- Situation 2: we have been invited to speak to a group
of which we are not member, then we have to gain some
basic information on the audience by learning what
draws them together.
 3. CHOOSING A TOPIC

We need to narrow
It is possible that the topic to suit the
our topic has been audience’s needs,
selected for us, creating a speech
perhaps by our which addresses
professor, but we something about the
still have a good speech and will be
deal of freedom in of interest to the
choosing how we audience
will address it.
4. WHAT WILL BE THE SETTING
Room: cold or warm, big or small.

Background music, noise

Seating arragement

Lighting
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✗ Know who___ and why___before we begin: Who will be our audience?
Why are we speaking to them?
✗ If we don’t know our audience,
_______ interview our contact person- and
ask for other names and phone numbers of people with whom we
can talk.
✗ Talk
___ about what we know. Speak to our strenghts.
✗ Visit
___ the place where we’ll be speaking prior to the day of our

speech.
✗ Plan for our needs in advance. Know what equipment or visual
aids we’ll require.