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- Evaluators Top Tips
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| Try and have a story or theme. If you write the speech in the third person it becomes a speech not a narrative |
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Reading List - We
should add the most comprehensive and useful document to improve your
speeches is the ASC Speakers Guide issued to all Club Members. The following
publications are supplementary and recommended by members of the Market Harborough
& District
Speakers Club.
Public Speaking For Dummies, 2nd
Edition. A good general introduction to making public speeches.
By Malcolm Kushner ISBN: 0764559540 |
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Kindly Sit Down By Jack Aspinall. A book of after dinner
stories. ISBN: 0907675093 |
Brewers Dictionary of
Phrase and Fable (17th Ed.) By John Ayto ISBN :0061121207
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Atyeo & Green;
(1994) “Don’t Quote Me”;
Chancellor Press; ISBN : 85152 476 2 |
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Kilgariff;
(1985); “Comic Speeches for
all Occasions”; Futura Macdonald and Co; ISBN
7088-1460-3 |
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Shindler;
(1993); “100 Favourite
After-Dinner Stories form the Famous”;BCA; ISBN
0749912995
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MHDSC Speakers Club Recommendation |
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Market Harborough Speakers Club 2019
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- Famous Quotes
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| The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything |
| Edward John Phelps 1822-1900 |
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Improve your Vocabulary
Learn or improve your understanding of over 400 words. This will
increase your ability to deliver speeches
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The 10 ASC steps to becoming a
better speaker
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Making a Start |
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Say What You Mean |
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Speech Construction |
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Use of Gestures |
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Use Your Voice |
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Vocabulary & Word Pictures |
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The Use of Notes |
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The Use of Humour |
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Audience Rapport |
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The Masterpiece |
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