ENTERTAINMENT SPEECH

 amuses the audience

 The primary purpose of a speech to
entertain is to have the audience relax, smile
and enjoy the occasion.
After this lesson, students will be
able to
 Distinguish types of speech according to
purpose
 Identify the forms of informative speeches.
 Apply the different strategies in organizing
an informative speech
 JUST A MINUTE
 The aim of this game is to speak for a full 60 seconds on your
randomly selected topic without any…

Hesitation - A break or pause in the natural rhythm of the

speaker which last three or more seconds

Repetition – Using the same words or phrases repeatedly,

excluding the phrase of your topic which you can repeat
occasionally
 Deviation – Going completely off the given topic
Speaking to Inform
 Definition of Speaking to Inform
 Types of Informative Presentations
 Strategies for
 Organizing Your Informative Presentation
 Speaking to Inform
To share information with
others to enhance their
knowledge or understanding
of the information, and ideas
present.
 Four Types of Informative Speeches

1. objects
2. procedures
3. people
4. events
Presentations About Objects
 A speech about an object may be about anything tangible-
anything that you can see or touch.

 You may want to show the object (or pictures of it) to your
audience while you are talking about it.

 Objects that could form the basis for an interesting

presentation might include these topics:
 The Nuclear power
 Digital cameras
 A museum
 Presentations About Procedures
 A presentation about a procedure discusses
 how something works (how blood travels through the circulatory system)
 or describes a process that produces a particular outcome (how a cocoon
turns into a butterfly).
 how a process is completed or how something can be accomplished (how
to make a cake)
 Presentations about procedures are often presented in workshops or
training situations in which people learn skills.
 Your audience should be able to describe, understand, or perform the
procedure that you presented
 One good way to teach people a skill is to follow the acronym
TEACH
 More About Procedures
 T- Tell - describe what you want your listeners to know
 E- Example - show them an example of how to perform the skill
 A- Apply- give them an opportunity to apply knowledge by performing the
skill
 C- Coach- provide positive coaching to encourage them
 H- Help- help them learn by correcting mistakes

 Include visual aids. Showing people how to do something is almost always

more effective than just telling them how to do it
 Examples of procedures:
• How to do research using the internet, How to create a webpage
• How to make a movie
• How to bake a cake
• How to plant a garden
Presentations About People
 A biographical presentation about someone
famous or someone you know
 Talk about key elements of the person’s career,
personality, or other significant life features
 Be selective and brief
 Examples of topics:
• Bill Gates
• President Bush
Presentations About Events
 Major events that happen in our lives at a point in
time
 Events that you have witnessed or researched
 Examples of topics:
• Hurricane Katrina

• Tsunami in 2004
Strategies for Organizing your
Informative Speech (Presentation)

Your audience will understand more

information if you organize your
ideas logically
Organizing
Informative Presentations
 Chronologically-in order
 Spatially- describing the layout
 Complexity- in order of difficulty
 Topically- the logical divisions of the
object
 Organizing Presentations About
Objects
 Presentations about objects may be organized topically, a topical pattern
is structured around logical divisions of the object your delivering.

Here is a sample outline for a speech about an object – nuclear power plants

Specific Purpose: To inform my audience about nuclear power plants

 I. The reactor core
A. The nuclear fuel in the core
II. The reactor vessel
A. The walls of the reactor vessel
III. The reactor core rods
A. The description and function of the core rods
Organizing Presentations About
Objects-continued
 Presentations about objects can also be
organized chronologically. A speaker may talk
about the history and development of nuclear
power plants
 The presentation can also be organized
spatially, describing the physical layout of the
nuclear power plant
 Organizing Presentations about
Procedures
 Speeches about procedures are usually organized
chronologically, according to the steps involved in the process.

Here is a sample outline of a speech about a procedure for making

candles in chronological order
Specific Purpose: To inform my audience how to make candles
 I. First you have to buy the materials
A. wax

B. dye

II. Secondly, you have to melt the wax and add the dye
III. Thirdly, you have to mold the wax
 Organizing Presentations About
People
 One way to talk about a person’s life is in chronological order – birth,
school, career, family, professional achievements, death.

 However if you are interested in a specific theme, such as Winston Churchill,

master of English prose, you may decide to organize Churchill’s experiences
topically. You could first discuss his achievements as a brilliant orator and
then trace the origins of his skill to his work in South Africa.

 Another example is Ghandi:

Specific Purpose: To inform my audience about Ghandi
I. Spiritual and political leader of India
II. Employed ideas of civil disobedience
III. Principles he lived by
 Organizing Presentations About
Events
 Most speeches about an event follow a chronological order

 But a presentation about an event can also describe the complex

issues or causes behind the event and be organized topically.
 For example the Civil War:
Specific Purpose: To inform my audience about the causes of
the Civil War
I. Political
II. Economic
III. Social
 Group Activity: QUIZ BEE
 Directions: Identify the types of informative speech applicable on the following statement.
Objects People Events Procedures

 _______1. Angelo is talking about how to make a chocolate cheesecake.

 _______2. Jil is talking about how to change a flat tire.
 _______ 3. Henry is talking about his graduation day.
 _______ 4. Patrick is talking about the life of Rudolf Diesel.
 _______ 5. Kurt is talking about the advantages of nuclear power plant.
 _______ 6. Carl is talking about the biography of James Otto.
 _______ 7. Jackie is talking about how to research using the internet.
 _______ 8. Dan is talking about the latest model of car.
 _______ 9. JM is talking about the Town Fiesta.
 _______ 10. Jonzen is talking about the importance of dry cell.
Application
 Imagine you’re giving a speech to a group
of students on how to assemble a double
layer cake. Which type of informative
speech do you think would be the most
useful (objects, people, events, and
processes)? Why?
 Generalization
 What is an informative speech?
 What are the forms of informative speech?
 What is the main purpose of informative
speech?
 What are the strategies in organizing
informative speech?
 Evaluation
Write an outline for informative speech about an object, procedure, people and events.
Choose your topic below.
Digital cameras
Latest model of car
How to change a flat tire
How to plant a garden
Rudolf Diesel
James Otto
Typhoon Lawin
Town Feast
 Assignment
 What is persuasive speech?
 Differentiate the types of persuasive speech.
 Organizing Presentations About
Ideas
 Most speeches about ideas are organized topically (by logical
subdivisions of the central idea) or according to complexity (from
simple ideas to more complex ones)
The following is an example of a topically organized presentation
about philosophy:

Specific Purpose: To inform my audience about philosophy

I. Definition of philosophy
II. Three branches of the study of philosophy
Guidelines for Making Your
Informative Presentation Clear
 A message is clear when the listener understands it in the way the
speaker intended.
 Be aware of what you intend to communicate, then select appropriate
words with appropriate nonverbal cues to express your ideas
 Adapt your message to your audience.
 Simplify your ideas
 easier for your audience to remember
 Pace your information flow
 don’t talk to fast, quality vs. quantity
 Relate new information to old
 help audience associate your new idea with something that is familiar to
them
Guidelines for Making Your Informative
Presentation Interesting
 Present information that relates to your listener’s interests
 Activity and movement- talk about a story that is action packed
 Issues and events close to an audience- make it personal
 Conflict –show 2 sides to the story or topic
 Use attention catching supporting material
 Definition, use analogies (comparisons) , describe the process,
who, what , why , how
Making Your Informative
Presentation Interesting
 Establish a motive for your audience to listen to you
 Ask the audience questions

 Begin with an anecdote (story)

 Tell them how the information you will be valuable to them

 Use Word pictures

 Use words to help the audience visualize the images you are
talking about
 Create interesting presentation (visual) aids
 Pictures, graphs, posters, colorful charts

 Use Humor
 Use humorous quotations

 Use cartoons
Guidelines for Making Your Informative
Presentation Memorable
 Build in redundancy
 Repeat words or message
 Use adult learning principles
 Give information that they can use immediately, involve
them in the learning process, connect information to their
lives
 Reinforce key ideas verbally
 Say “this is an important point”, raise or lower your voice
 Reinforce key ideas nonverbally
 Gestures, point to pictures, accentuate words by making
them colorful or italicizing them,
 Imagine you’re giving a speech related to
aardvarks to a group of fifth graders. Which
type of informative speech do you think
would be the most useful (objects, people,
events, concepts, processes, and issues)?
Why?