Member Speech: Jerry the Genie

Advanced Manual: Humorously Speaking, "Warm Up Your Audience"
Author & Speaker: Dan Mukendi
Speech done at Transformers Toastmaster Club
Evaluation by: Keith Bowen
Time 5-7 minutes
(c) Author, 2006

Speech structure:
Topic: How to makes wishes come true
Intro: Housewife's wish
Body: Twelve Inches
+ Highway to paradise
+ Aladdin
Closing: Clarity, Reality and Focus

Objectives:

• Prepare a speech that opens with a humorous story
• Personalise the story
• Deliver the story smoothly and effectively

Evaluation Feedback:
A pass :-)
Less humour needed to meet objectives.
Humor connected but speech felt more like being built around the humour.
More humour than speech content. Not necessary for first speech.
Humour used worked, audience laughed.

posted by Speech Quest @ 3:08 PM