Introduction and main body

Hi there! After a short pause, I'm here again with a new post. What's the post about? Well, about some very basic things that every novice public speaker like me needs to know: the structure of a public speech. This week I listened to a very interesting presentation on the first stage of a speech - its introduction. The girls, who prepared the speech, explained in detail that the introduction is a very important part, it either makes your speech a success or dooms you to failure. In short, here's what they told us.

 The introduction consists of four parts:

  1. the attention-getter, 
  2. the link, 
  3. the thesis,
  4. and the preview. 

The hooks or attention-getters can be different. You can use a personal story, humor, questions, shocking facts, or quotes to start your speech. Then we use the link to lead our listeners smoothly to the thesis statement. The thesis is your main idea, your message, summarized in the form of a statement (it's best to use a statement, it makes it clear to all listeners). Then we move on to the preview, which summarizes the main points of the body of the speech. So, that's it. In class we've already had time to practice formulating an introduction. Our group got the first text from the textbook about the London Eye. Here's what we corrected in that speech.

Have you ever been to London? If you have, you must have seen the eye of it just like in the Tolkien's book. The London Eye is world's the tallest observation wheel and one of the most popular sights in London. Today I'd like to tell you 3 facts about its history, location and importance for the city.

I think we did pretty well. All parts of the introduction are included and connected logically.

In addition, I was able to watch a bunch of introductions from TEDTalk speeches and evaluate them. Some of them seemed boring to me, but there were some speakers whose introductions intrigued me and I watched their speeches to the end. Most of the most interesting introductions, in my humble opinion, contained personal stories with notes of humor and self-irony or shocking facts. Here you can watch these speeches and practice your own evaluation of the introductions.

 

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8KkKuTCFvzI 

 

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fLJsdqxnZb0 

 

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XFnGhrC_3Gs 

 

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KzIp4IzDPG0 

 

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8COaMKbNrX0 

 

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bf7BXwVeyWw 

 

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wX78iKhInsc 

 

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_6vDLq64gE 

 

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=arj7oStGLkU 

 

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZGY0wPAnus 

 

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eIho2S0ZahI 

 

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iCvmsMzlF7o 

 

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qYvXk_bqlBk 

 

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P3fIZuW9P_M 

 

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=95ovIJ3dsNk 

 

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=quDwQ7W9eKc 

 

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dceyy0cX6J4&list=PLaKhZbQ6WVFq0ZcNJJ0D1mT_FG-cNBy3l&index=2 

 

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6iM6M_7wBMc 

 

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxbCHn6gE3U 

 

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zo62S0ulqhA 

 

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qp0HIF3SfI4 

 

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I can't go by without saying that I, too, gave a speech this week about the body of speech, specifically the outline of the main body of speech. I did well, although I had some shortcomings, but that will be the subject of a separate post towards the end of the course. My speech was also continued by the other participants. Here is what I was able to find out about the body of speech. 

1. It is necessary to properly outline the speech and include in it

  1. the main headings, 
  2. support 
  3. and details 

They should clearly relate to the purpose and theme of the speech and they should not be too numerous.

2. In addition, these parts should be arranged according to certain patterns (6 were suggested to us: chronological, spatial, problem-solving, climatic, topical and cause-and-effect).

3. All the parts should flow smoothly into each other, for which we can use certain phrases like: at thee same time, in other words, ultimately, etc.

This week I was able to learn a lot of new information and do a lot of really useful tasks. Looking forward to another productive week. Bye!

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