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1. Include a Grabber
Use one of the following, maybe two, but definitely not all:
ask a question
use suspense; don't announce your topic
use a startling statement
open with a quotation
begin with a STORY that has to do with your topic (can be funny, sad, serious...)
powerful statistic
real life example
2. Include an Audience Connector
- motivate the audience to CARE about your speech
(we, together, us, as a group)
3. Include your 3 main ideas
- find them on your graphic organizer
4. Include your topic (specific) in one to three sentences
5. Think SUSPENSE
-you could keep the audience waiting for/wondering what you are going to talk about-
Naming the topic AFTER you have hooked us makes us interested in the topic. If you had started right into the topic without steps one and two above, you risk getting yawns from the audience
6. Inform / Describe / Persuade / Entertain
Somewhere in your intro (maybe when stating your topic), allow your point of view on your topic to be clear
- EXAMPLE: If you want to persuade the audience to know that snowboarding is the best sport, then you should let the audience FEEL that when announcing your topic
- EXAMPLE: If you are going to describe your brother, then let that be clear when announcing your topic
- EXAMPLE: If you are going to tell the audience how bad polluting is for us than really make that come clear when announcing your topic
7. Preview Step
- last step in speech introduction before you start writing the BODY.
- Are your 3 main points listed for the audience?
- This is a kind of table of contents of the speech, and like a table of contents, it helps the listeners know how to fit each point you make together since you have given them the structure of the speech before launching into the body of the speech.
- It might sound like this: "In the next few minutes,we are going on a journey about ..
8. Voice - can you hear your 'voice' in your speech. Are you speaking like you or are you trying to make it sound like someone else?
9. ENERGY - can you picture yourself saying what you want to say in your introduction with ENERGY?
What could be added to the intro? Watch any of the videos below to make it even better?
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