Things You'll Need:
- Speech guidelines
- List of interests
- Topic resources
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Step 1
Make sure that you know the outline of your assignment. Be careful to not pick a topic that is inappropriate.
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Step 2
Think about who your audience is. Relate your topic according to your audience's gender, cultural, age and common ties.
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Step 3
Think about what type of speech you want. There are how to informative speeches, persuasive speeches or special occasion speeches.
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Step 4
Pick a topic that interests you and that will interest your audience. Make a list of everything you like and look through the list to see if there is something that might interest your audience too. Think about your favorite ideas, objects, animals, people, places, events, policies and special skills that you have. Staying personal will help you to be passionate about your speech. Passionate speakers hook and hold their audience.
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Step 5
Narrow down your topic. You do not want your topic to be too broad, because you may only have a short amount of time to speak. Try not to make your topic to complex. Explaining about complex subjects can be difficult. Make sure that your audience can understand what you are talking about.
