This presentation outlines the importance of speech organisation, main components of a speech, how to develop and organize the body of the speech, developing a suitable opening and closing to a speech.

1. Speech Organization
Mahesh Amarasiri ACS
Mahesh Amarasiri, ACS

2. Why speech organization is important?
 For the Audience
 Easy to comprehend
 Easy to remember
 For the Speaker
 Help to identify the relationship between ideas
 Grab the attention of the audience
Mahesh Amarasiri, ACS

3. Any speech has three basic components!
 Opening
 Body
 Main ideas/points
 Supporting Material
 Conclusion
Mahesh Amarasiri, ACS

4. Organizing the body of the speech
 Main Idea/ Theme
 List Main points
 Approximately 2-5 points
 Expand upon the points
 Supporting material ( Examples, Statistics)
 Arrange them in order
 Chronological
 Spatial
 Cause-Effect
 Problem-Solution
Mahesh Amarasiri, ACS

5. Moving from one point to another :
Connectives
 Transition
 Indicates that speaker has completed once thought and ready
to move on
 “Now that we have seen the important of Main Points, let us
see how the main pints are connected”
 Internal Preview
 Indicate the audience what speaker going to talk about next
 “The objectives needs to be SMART”
Mahesh Amarasiri, ACS

6. Moving from one point to another :
Connectives
 Internal Summaries
 Reverse of internal Preview
 Summaries the preceding points
 Sign Post
 Indicate where the speaker is in the main points
 “ The first point, The Last point, in conclusion”
Mahesh Amarasiri, ACS

7. Once the Body is developed…
 Develop an introduction
 Engage the audience
 Attention grabbing
 Should fit into the body of the speech
 Develop a conclusion
 Strong enough to remember the speech
 Summary
 Call to action
Mahesh Amarasiri, ACS

8. Thank You
Mahesh Amarasiri, ACS