SPEECH WRITING
Format
- A speech does not require a strict format or fixed style.
- No need of a headline/caption. If you wish, you can begin with the question number.
Style
Begin with a pleasant address.
- Good morning, ladies and gentlemen.
- Respected Principal, teachers and dear friends.
A self-introduction is very common.
- “I am Martin Mow from class XI B and I feel honored to be given an opportunity to speak about global warming…”
Follow the FCCS method. FCCS stands for facts, causes, consequences and solutions. To know more about FCCS, read Introduction to Writing.
- Keep on asking questions and choosing YOU to address the audience.
- Attract the audience with lively jokes, quotes, news, songs, etc.
- Convince the audience with facts – real or fictitious.
Conclusion
- Conclude by leaving a message.
- End with a word of thanks.
Board Exams are Returning – Will it do Good?
Good morning, teachers and dear friends. May I call your attention to the latest news from the education board. You all know that the CBSE has decided to bring class X board exams back to schools. That means, all students who are in the class IX will have to appear for their class X board exams! That once more means, the tension is going to rise and brains are going to burn two years earlier! Dear friends, what do you think of this? Will it do us good? My personal opinion is, however, it will really do us great good. You must be wondering why I tend to support a decision of the government that is meant to worsen our schooling but let me explain. Board examination will empower us to be prepared better. If we once go through the trials and tensions of the class X board exams, it will give us an opportunity to know the process of board exams. It will add to our experience. So, I would once again say that the return of class X exam is a great opportunity for all of us. Let’s welcome this decision of the Government.
Reality Vs Virtual Reality
Sandra Paulo in her bestseller novel gave a message to the humanity, “Mom, I am sending you a pack of my best love and care online. Kindly click the button below and it will start downloading. It cost $4000 so save it carefully.”
It is getting critical! The life we live is not real, the movies we watch are far from real, the people we interact with are fake, the theories that we believe are under transition, the Gods that we believe are not proved, the ambitions that we live for are mere copies of other people who had lived and died.
The real drama that we saw on the village makeshift stages has been killed by the endless mega serials, the real hugging and meeting that we had some twenty years ago has been killed by facebook. Once we used to share vegetables and food with our neighbors but now we share great messages and the shots of our newly bought cars on the net. What a life!
We are proud of owning an iphone 5 or six or 7. It has been rumored that mobile companies are coming up with android apps that can think for us, make plans for us and scold us in case we failed to do a task. What a life is that?
Do not love a life that is unreal. Remember, we have just become slaves of the clock. We have become the cogwheels of a machine and run here and there and call it life. Friends, apart from the hands of the clock, time is no reality. We are born and we die at the same time. If we can remember this, let’s stop being unreal, let’s stop living an unreal life and let’s forever stop believing fake promises.
The earth under our feet is real, people we meet are real, the hard work we do is real, the plants and trees that grow in the yard are real, the sweat and blood is real. Trust them and love them. As Rudyard Kipling said, “If you can still keep running the uncompromising sixty seconds of a minute, you are a man! Let’s embark to the real life that our ancestors lived at a time when cell phones and computers had not have any sway on their life. If we can, we will live, the generations to come will live and this earth will be here, for long. Thanks.
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