ToastMasters Club 8262, Area 27, Central Division

Resources

Forms

> Speech Manuals
   - Communication & Leadership
   - Communicate on TV
   - Discussion Leader
   - Entertaining Speaker
   Humorously Speaking
   - Interpersonal Comm.
   - Interpretive Reading
   - Management Speeches
   - Persuasive Speaking
   - Professional Speaker
   - Public Relations
   - Speaking to Inform
   - Special Occasions
   - Specialty Speeches
   - Storytelling
   - Technical Presentations

Speech Track
   (CTM, ATM)

Leadership Track
   (AL, CL, DTM)

Contests

Humorously Speaking

(Advanced manual - 5 speeches. May be used to achieve ATM awards)

Warm Up Your Audience
Objectives: Give a speech that opens with a humorous story. Deliver the story smoothly and effectively.
Time: 5-7 minutes

Leave Them With a Smile
Objectives: Prepare a serious speech that opens and closes with humorous stories. Prepare a closing story that reemphasizes the speech’s main point.
Time: 5 - 7 minutes

Make Them Laugh
Objectives: Prepare a speech that opens and closes with humorous stories. Include jokes in the speech body to illustrate points to maintain audience interest.
Time: 5-7 minutes

Keep Them Laughing
Objectives: Prepare a speech that opens with a self-deprecating joke. String together related jokes in the speech body. Close the speech with a humorous story.
Time: 5-7 minutes

The Humorous Speech
Objectives: Use exaggeration to tell a humorous story. Effectively use body language and voice to enhance the story.
Time: 5-7 minutes