The speech is occurring after the wedding ceremony.

The speech is happening in the auditorium on Park St.

The speech will be given to an audience of 3rd graders.

The speech is scheduled for 4pm.

Offer constructive criticism to other speakers.

Only listen to the speeches that your friends give.

Avoid entering the room during a presentation.

Respect time limits of speech-giving.

Imagine the speech is a conversation.

Give your speech without notecards/script.

Gain more experience with speaking.

Make connections with people in the audience.

To give a speech to entertain

To persuade the audience to take more naps

To give a speech that informs

To mislead the audience with incorrect facts

A time to take questions from the audience and tell them about your life experiences

A time to gain listeners' attention and introduce the topic and its background

A time to motivate the audience to take action about your topic

A time to be dramatic and confuse your audience, so they'll want to listen more

A chance to summarize your main points, motivate your audience to do something about your message, and give a few memorable final lines

An opportunity to interview your audience members and ask them to speak about their own knowledge of the topic

A chance to clarify all the information you forgot to mention in your body section and to tell the audience they have been horrible listeners

A moment intended for introducing the next speaker and explaining why your speech was the best one the audience will hear all day

Explain your main points and ideas with transitions

Offer the audience time to ask questions

Summarize all the main topics of your speech at once

Time for the speaker to introduce him/herself

Completing and presenting researched content makes the audience lose trust in what you say, causing them to listen skeptically.

Research makes the speaker seem smarter than the audience, so they will feel bad about themselves and want to learn more.

Research helps you seem more credible as a speaker, so the audience will trust you more and want to hear what you say.

Research is easy to fake, so you can appear knowledgable to your audience without doing much.

Is the topic boring enough?

Is the topic worthwhile?

Is the topic appropriate?

Is the topic culturally sensitive?

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