Ice 1a Unit 8 Making a Speech 3

O.K. So, I'd like to get back to the first part "the attention getter". What would be an effective "attention getter"? Well, as I said, you can use a piece of poetry, a quote, uhm a personal example, something that will make the audience actively pay attention to you-listen to what you are trying to tell them. Right, uh so, you have told us about the three "T's" Tell them what you are going to tell them; tell them; and the third one: tell them what you have told them. O.K. So....are there any other ways that the speech writer can make their speech more effective ?Uh make it easier for the audience to understand? I think one thing that the speaker needs to remember is that the audience cannot simply push a button and hold you, pause or rewind, get you to repeat what you have just said. So, in that sense a speech is very different from a paragraph where the reader can go back, so you need to remind the audience all the way along. You can use synonyms. You can repeat what you are saying uh you can use key words, you can say: "First, second, third." All these things can help the listener to remember the information that you are delivering to them in your speech.