Instructions for Show and Tell
Your speech should be 2 minutes long. Practice what you want to say and time yourself to see if you have 2 minutes. More is not better. Brevity is the soul of wit.
Do not start your speech with "so". It is a good idea to start your speech with something that will engage your audience -- a joke, a question, a quotation.
Do not end your speech with "yeah" (as in "so that's what I wanted to say about my carpentry project . . . yeah"). Think of how you can come to a conclusion. "I learned that . . . " "This was one of the most important moments of my life" . . . "I will always remember . . . "
If you have an item that you cannot bring to school, a photograph is fine.
The item should inspire a story or ideas that can engage the audience. For example, you bring your grandfather's medals from the Second World War. You ask us to imagine an eighteen year old boy volunteering to serve in the army, describe a battle in which he took part, or the state he was in when he came back to Canada after the war. You don't need to spend too much time describing the item itself.
The goal of this project is to demonstrate that you've made progress in public speaking. That means you need to speak clearly and project your voice. You need to appear to be confident. You need to prepare a speech that does not use words and phrases inappropriately (phrases like "sort of" and words like "like").
If you are interested in what you have to say, we will also be interested. You need to show that you are interested by speaking with expression, by making eye contact with the audience, and by taking care to prepare your speech.
Do not start your speech with "so". It is a good idea to start your speech with something that will engage your audience -- a joke, a question, a quotation.
Do not end your speech with "yeah" (as in "so that's what I wanted to say about my carpentry project . . . yeah"). Think of how you can come to a conclusion. "I learned that . . . " "This was one of the most important moments of my life" . . . "I will always remember . . . "
If you have an item that you cannot bring to school, a photograph is fine.
The item should inspire a story or ideas that can engage the audience. For example, you bring your grandfather's medals from the Second World War. You ask us to imagine an eighteen year old boy volunteering to serve in the army, describe a battle in which he took part, or the state he was in when he came back to Canada after the war. You don't need to spend too much time describing the item itself.
The goal of this project is to demonstrate that you've made progress in public speaking. That means you need to speak clearly and project your voice. You need to appear to be confident. You need to prepare a speech that does not use words and phrases inappropriately (phrases like "sort of" and words like "like").
If you are interested in what you have to say, we will also be interested. You need to show that you are interested by speaking with expression, by making eye contact with the audience, and by taking care to prepare your speech.
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