After Dinner Speaking
Often after a long conference featuring a fancy pants meal, someone gets up and speaks. If this speaker is a bust and informational the entire audience will be snoozing. But if this person is gifted in words, and comedy he would have the audience rolling, helping for much of the digestion.
The key to a good after dinner speech to first pick your audience and purpose. Are you Simon Cowell speaking to a shameful crowd of reality TV stars, or a senior talking to the underclassmen. Are you a socking speaking to lonely and wayward socks, or a cheer-leading giving a recruitment spiel. Don't just limit you to your gender, your age group, or even your race.
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I cannot stress that the more you practice the better you will do. Your confidence will be higher, your presentation will be better, you will be better. This all means your GRADE will be better. You will practice sharing with a partner first. But then over the weekend you will record yourself giving your speech. You can use your iphone or an ipad or the webcam on your computer or a website that does this. After you do this, fill out the following form. You need to watch how often you look up from your paper, how you gesture, talk, fast you talk, etc. The more you do this the better you'll be!