The Entertaining Speaker People like to be entertained and the entertaining speaker offers listeners a pleasant diversion from their demanding lives. This manual offers five projects that will help you develop your skills as an entertaining speaker.

1. The Entertaining Speech

Time:	5-7 minutes
Objectives:	•	Entertain the audience through use of humor and/or drama drawn from your personal experience.
	•	Organize an entertaining speech for maximum audience impact.

2. Resources for Entertainment

Time:	8-10 minutes
Objectives:	•	Draw humorous and/or dramatic material from sources other than your own personal experience.
	•	Adapt your material to suit your topic, your own personality and the audience. Use entertaining material as a means of conveying a serious message.

3. Make Them Laugh

Time:	8-10 minutes
Objectives:	•	Prepare a humorous speech drawn from your own experience.
	•	Strengthen the speech by adapting and personalizing humorous material from outside sources.
	•	Deliver the speech in a way that makes the humor effective.

4. A Dramatic Talk

Time:	10-12 minutes
Objectives:	•	Develop an entertaining dramatic talk about an experience or incident, or give a dramatic reading.
	•	Include vivid imagery, characters and dialogue.
	•	Deliver the talk in an interpretative manner.

5. Speaking After Dinner

Time:	13-15 minutes
Objectives:	•	Prepare an entertaining after-dinner talk on a specific theme.
	•	Deliver the talk extemporaneously, using the skills developed in the preceding entertainment projects.