The Topic of my speech was: "I'm sick and tired of Competitive Fans at sporting events."
I was determined to be prepared for my first speech so I decided to start writing my speech a week earlier. By doing this it helped me in a huge way. I had time to make adjustments by using the correct words and even adding a scenario that would hopefully give the audience an idea of how I came up with the subject. This also gave me time to memorize my speech and put more emotion into it, that way I can show my audience I was serious about my subject. Once I found out about the topic of my speech, I knew exactly what I wanted to talk about. The night before I checked on my assignment was actually the night I based my speech on. I sat beside my friend
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Yes, basketball is a competitive sport but why does it make people do irrational things? My experience really helped me and I knew I could explain my opinion easily. I was very nervous while doing this speech, not only because I was worried about the mistakes I could make but also over my wording or if I would offend someone. I am not a public speaker, but being in FFA has helped me with my delivery of the speech, but I knew I could still use some practice with these aspects.
My strengths would include my posture, eye contact, and volume. Even though I may feel accomplished on my volume at the moment, I know I can still work on it and attract more attention. Being nervous, I was too afraid to use different pitches, but I know that in my next speech it is a main aspect I should follow. Volume is one of the main things to gain an audiences attention, but another
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For one, I usually speak in a fast pace but when I'm nervous, I speak even faster. So one of my thoughts was to write more into my speech, that way I could stay with in the time limit. Then I realized that just adding more words would make me speak faster because I would be worried over not finishing due to the excessive amount of writing. The way I solved this problem was by actually going over my speech several times, but reading at a slower pace. So when I actually present the speech, I would get used to the slower pace. Then, my audience could understand my speech without being confused in the overall subject. Being nervous before a speech is totally normal but the best way to help is by taking a few deep breaths and slowing