In this blog, Zvonimir from Croatia writes about Get Ahead Speech Making
This Get Ahead option will indeed get you ahead. Whether the audience is your class or the whole world, your speech could be a game changer.
Having no knowledge about speech making, we started analyzing one of the world’s most popular speeches, Obama’s acceptance speech. The first time we listened to it, all we could say was that it was good. As time passed, we learned a lot of complex techniques that Obama used in his speech. Elevated language, repetition and the magic rule of three are just a few examples.
Now that we were much more educated about writing speeches, it was time to write our own. What could a couple of teenagers write about?
Environmental protection? The greenhouse effect? Problems in society? Maybe. But a motivating speech before our forest paintball battle? Much better! Despite talking a lot about speech making, we were still insecure. Our teacher gave us a boost of confidence by playing a speech from the movie Braveheart. It did help us!
The speech we wrote
was quite good. Actually, it was so good that it impressed our teacher! Feeling really proud of ourselves, we left the classroom, ready for new challenges ahead of us.
