Birthday Speeches: Birth Stories & Life

Video Transcript

"Okay, we are ready to talk the about the person's life that you are giving the birthday speech for. We've already established their age and, possibly, the uniqueness of it, but now let's take a glance back, a walk down memory lane, if you will. The first thing you want to remember or, or make note of are any special facts about this person's life, and when I'm talking about special facts, maybe you want to mention where they were born or, you know, the town that they were born in, or what events were going on in history at the time that person was born. Anything that is special about their life, whether it was, you know, the Great Depression, or the same year of the Challenger explosion, or nine-eleven, or any kind of event, major event that happened, you might want to kind of almost think about it at, in historical terms, and it could be not global historical things, but in relation to the town that the person lives in. "Well, Old Jim was born the year that the first plant came into town," or "I remember we got Walmart and we got Jim." Whatever it is, special facts relating to the birth and history of this person is what you're going to want to talk about next, and remember we're going to keep it brief. So, you're only going to mention a few things. Let's find out what's next."