
Structuring Speech & Beginning and Ending your speech
Quiz by Gopala Krishnan
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An effective conclusion restates the topic, restates the key ideas, activates an audience response, and provides closure.
Restating the key ideas is simply repeating keywords.
When providing closure, your goal is to make the audience know when the speech is finished without needing to explicitly tell them.
You should develop the elements of a speech in the same order that you will deliver them.
Based on ABCD model, the best way is to follow the structure based on the model
In the ABCD model, benefits provided should be audience-centered.Â
There are THREE ways to show your credibility based on ABCD model.
Your introduction creates an important first impression; your conclusion leaves an equally important final impression.
The main purpose of a speech introduction is to get attention, whether favorable or unfavorable.
A conclusion is a speaker’s first chance to review his or her main ideas for the audience.
You can help establish listening motivation by showing the members of your audience how the topic affects them directly.
One way to build credibility in the introduction is to be prepared and appear confident.
An initial preview statement is an organizational strategy called a signpost.
You should not restate your main ideas in your speech conclusion because it makes the speech too repetitive.
A rhetorical question is intended to provoke thought, rather than elicit an answer.
Saying, “that’s it” or “that’s my speech” is a suitable way to provide closure in your speech conclusion.
When audience members feel that they are or could be personally involved or affected, they are more likely to respond to your message.
Effective conclusions may employ illustrations, quotations, personal references, or any of the other methods of introduction.
You can help establish listening motivation by showing the members of your audience how the topic affects them directly.Â
Answering a rhetorical question that you presented in the introduction is a repetitive and unimaginative way to provide closure.
Inspirational appeals or challenges are seldom part of effective conclusions.
A famous or vivid quotation is the most inherently interesting type of supporting material.
It is appropriate to use a quotation in your introduction when a past writer or speaker has expressed an opinion on your topic that is more authoritative, comprehensive, or memorable than what you can say. Â
Referencing your speech introduction during the conclusion should be avoided because such repetition will not hold the audience’s attention.
Sometimes a direct question to an audience may invite an oral response.
Choosing to amuse your audience as your attention-getting strategy can be useful if you need to defuse audience hostility.
Establishing credibility only needs to be done in your introduction.
What you communicate begins with the first word of speech.
Most listeners will pay more attention if speakers provide the answers to the question, ĘşWhat is in it for me?Ęş in the introduction of a speech
ʺIn the largest gift of its kind in Kuching, Sarawak, a Contact couple has pledged RM2.5 million to put 67 second-graders through collegeʺ (Taken from Speak with Confidence, 191).
This statement is an example of what type of introduction?
ĘşSocrates was a Greek philosopher who went around giving people good advice. They poisoned himĘş.
This statement is an example of an introduction which is . . .
The attention-getter should be theÂ
If a person begins a speech by saying "On any given Saturday night, one quarter of all the people in Malaysia may be watching the same TV programme,"Â you would know that the person is trying to begin with ...
During the 1960s and ’70s, the United States intervened in the civil strife between North and South Vietnam. The result was a long-running war of attrition in which many American lives were lost and the country of Vietnam suffered tremendous damage and destruction. Today, we see a similar war being waged in Iraq. American lives are being lost, and stability has not yet returned to the region.
The paragraph above would be a suitable attention-getter for a speech which is under the category of ....
One way to determine your introduction is appropriate for speech is to . . .
In the fall of 2008, I decided that it was time that I took my life into my own hands. After suffering for years with the disease of obesity, I decided to take a leap of faith and get a gastric bypass in an attempt to finally beat the disease.
The above would be suitable attention-getter which is . . .Â
An American writer named Morgan Robertson once wrote a book called The Wreck of the Titan. The book was about an “unsinkable” ship called the Titan that set sail from England to New York with many rich and famous passengers on board. On its journey, the Titan hit an iceberg in the North Atlantic and sunk. Many lives were lost because there were not enough lifeboats. So, what is so strange about this? Well, The Wreck of the Titan was written 14 years before the Titanic sank.
The above attention-getter is suitable for an introduction which is . . .
One goal of your conclusion is to . . .
The easiest appropriate way to end a speech is to . . .
Micheal concluded his speech by saying “Now that you know more about the danger of corona virus , take five minutes to register in mysejahtera and get yourselves vaccinated.”
What is the purpose of his conclusion?