How to make a good English speech?
As we all know, there are many English speeches that are unforgettable, beautiful, fluent and instructive, such as Martine Luther King’s:I Have a Dream. In English-speaking countries, people often make speeches to encourage others to do more, to inspire others to get more, to persuade others to vote. In a word, speeches are an effective way to make yourself understood in public. So how to make a good English speech?
Getting to the point, there are five parts of a speech, including a title, a thesis statement, an introduction, a body or discussion and a conclusion. In order to make a speech, first you'd better choose a proper topic. That is to say, the topic is interested in and familiar with by the audience and that also can stimulate some sparking ideas. All your thoughts, materials, sentence structures are around the topic. The benefit of serving three functions in the speech is that it can not only show the purpose and reasons for your talk, but also gain audience goodwill and arouse audience interest. Most importantly, you should make the reasonable development and appropriate rhetoric by the logical sequences.
It should be realized that speaking is not writing. Therefore, try to use simple words and vivid language so that your audience can
catch your idea easily. In the speech, it is better to use some impressive sentences, to quote some famous people's words, to have a humor. The speech itself needn't last long but you must assure that you can get your ideas across to the audience. Then remember your tone is also important, different styles, different tones. In this way, the audience will have the same feeling as you.
Making a speech, you should face the audience and make eye contact as soon as possible. If you feel afraid of the stage fright, speak the sentence “All the great speakers were ban speakers at first”to yourself. Furthermore, make great efforts to find the slightest changes on the audience's face. In order to make your speech more powerful, body language is unavoidable.
In short, there are many tips of making a successful speech and you could pick out the important points and fix them in your memory.