We should not forget that you will say a good speech only if you yourself “burn” with this topic. As they say, if a horse had something to say, it would say. Churchill believed that the best speaker is the one who, before getting up, does not yet know what and how he will speak.
It is important to find out what time is allotted for you to speak, and to organize your speech so that you do not exceed it in any case. To do this, it is desirable to have a watch in front of your eyes. Usually, no more than 20 minutes are allotted for a speech. But it is better to shorten your speech even more in order to have time to answer questions.
All speakers are nervous before speaking, although to varying degrees. The degree of this excitement is approximately inversely proportional to the labor spent on preparing the speech. The better you know the subject, the less you worry. Before the performance, you should mentally run through his plan, put in order the available visual material. When the speaker realizes that he remembers well all that he will talk about, it will give him cheerfulness. His confidence will immediately increase at the beginning of the lecture, as soon as he feels that he speaks freely, makes an impression and remembers everything that has to be said.
The speaker’s performance in front of the audience is associated with tremendous moral and physical stress. Speakers often lose two or three kilograms during a speech. Therefore, it is very important to prepare well and rest before the performance. It is undesirable to take any sedatives or alcohol before the performance.
THE Beginning of the speech
“The one in whose possession there is reason, honor and knowledge only speaks when there is silence around.”
“The beginning is the half of everything”
Before starting a speech, you need silence in the audience. This can be achieved either by simply waiting for her, or by starting to speak in a low voice. Then, as a rule, listeners fall silent, trying to understand what is happening. Then you start talking at full volume. Before starting a speech, you s
At the beginning of the speech, it is necessary to attract the attention of the audience. Usually, some of the listeners are busy with something else, and have not tuned in to “collective thinking”. Psychologists have found that a person really gets involved in listening to a lecture 7—8 minutes after it starts. Therefore, this time should be devoted to material that does not require increased mental activity. It is necessary to start by no means stencil-like, but with some interesting question, case, situation, naturally related to the topic of the speech. Experienced speakers never express important ideas at the beginning of a speech, because they know that at this stage the audience is still getting used to the speaker.
In the following phrases of the speech, its purpose should be clearly and concisely formulated. Your primary task is to prove the importance of the proposed topic of the speech. If it succeeded, you can already consider the performance a success. Thus, M.V. Lomonosov considered it permissible to spend up to 75% of the speech time on proving its importance. Prove to students the importance of this subject for them, and they will get textbooks themselves and memorize them by heart. Why do many schoolchildren and students study poorly? It is not because they are unable to assimilate the material. The main reason is always that they do not see a specific, immediate benefit from the subject being studied. During the lecture, they get tired not at all from mental work on its material, but from their own efforts to focus their attention, which, with the slightest external influence, spreads in all directions. In the same case, if a person realizes that he receives vital information, he does not get tired for hours and processes it productively.
After you have proved the importance of the topic of the speech, it is necessary to familiarize the audience with its plan. Otherwise, it will give the impression of some chaotic wandering instead of orderly activity.