Informative Speaking

1. Informative Speaking English 2 Ms. Schremp

2. INFORMATIVE SPEAKING • Purpose of INFORMATIVE SPEAKING is to educate your audience on a certain topic. • Information is RESEARCH BASED • Information MUST BE presented: • Accurately • Clearly • Meaningfully and Interestingly

3. Types of Informative Speaking • Processes • Objects • Events • Concepts

4. Speaking to Inform: Processes • Information on how to complete a task or explain how a process works • Goal: Teach the audience how to complete a task • Examples: How to fill out permit forms, how to play a card game, how to collect stamps • This type of speech is NOT an option for YOUR SPEECH

5. Speaking to Inform: Objects • Object, Animal, Places or People • Goal: Inform audience about topic in an INTERESTING WAY • Examples: Abraham Lincoln, an extinct animal, Paris, or the new iPhone 5 • Must be a creative topic for YOUR SPEECH

6. Speaking to Inform: Events • Information on a past, present or future event • Goal: Inform audience on events of what occurred and understand what and why it happened. • Rather than a timeline, you may connect between events of the past and events of the present. • Examples: Pearl Harbor, September 11th, The Great Depression

7. Speaking to Inform: Concepts • Informs an audience on certain beliefs, ideas and theories. • Goal: Provide information to help audience understand a concept they may have little knowledge of. • Examples: Religions, Social Issues, Government

8. Organizing Your Speech • Chronological Pattern • Climactic Pattern • Cause-Effect Pattern • Problem-Solution Pattern

9. Chronological Pattern • Speech is organized in a time sequence • Puts things in order of which they happened • Gives audience a complete picture from beginning to end. • What type of informative speech would this work well with?

10. Climactic Pattern • Organize speech main points in order of importance • Gives dramatic build-up • What type of informative speech would this work well with?

11. Cause-Effect Pattern • Organizes speech in which the “causes” lead to the “effects” • “because of that,this happens” • Example: • Anorexia • Causes • Media Influence • Low Self-Esteem • Effects • Physical Problems • Emotional Problems • What type of informative speech would this work well with?

12. Problem-Solution Pattern • Organizes speech introducing the problems within a subject and offers possible solutions. • Example: • Child Hunger • Problem • Malnutrition • Cost • Solution • Non-Profit Organizations • Conservation • What type of informative speech would this work well with?