Public Speaking Resources

Improve your public speaking skills with our collection of resources. From informative articles and videos to helpful tips and tricks, this board has everything you need to take the stage with confidence. Discover how to craft engaging speeches, overcome stage fright, and connect with your audience. Whether you're a beginner or an experienced speaker, our resources will help you develop and refine your skills. So, step up to the microphone and get ready to inspire and captivate your audience.
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Unique and genuinely interesting speech topics for students
180 truly interesting stimulating speech topic ideas for students from middle school upwards. Five broad thematic groupings with examples: visiting yesterday (investigation into family and community history), weird (a look at oddities in all spheres past and present) and more.
Welcome speech for an event example
How to write a short warm welcome speech for an event step by step - with an example speech, and printable speech planner to use.
Impromptu speaking topics
200 diverse topics for impromptu speaking practice. Suitable for use with high school students and upwards, including public speaking groups.
Fun persuasive speech topics: an antidote for serious doom and gloom
Persuasive speech ideas that are fun, deliberately ridiculous, and quite silly because the subject of a persuasive speech doesn't have to be serious for a student to learn how to put together a sound persuasive argument.
Fun effective impromptu speech activities
17 ready-to-go proven impromptu speech activities for middle school upwards. Full instructions and printables.
Engagement toast examples - short, sincere and effective
Five brief engagement speech examples to use as a starting point for writing a speech of your own. The speeches are from the point of view of a mother, a father, a best friend of the bride to be, and one each from the new engaged couple.
Public speaking resources for teachers
A large collection of resources, many with printables, for communication and public speaking teachers: speech topics, speech activities and exercises, effective delivery materials, speech examples, how to manage public speaking anxiety and more.
How to prepare excellent note cards for extemporaneous speeches
Detailed step-by-step instructions (with examples) for making effective note or cue cards for speeches. Plus - their benefits and how to practice with them.
12 different ways to effectively open a speech
12 examples of different ways to effectively introduce a speech. Attention-getters to hook an audience from the start!
How to write a speech - step-by-step
A comprehensive step-by-step process for writing a speech covering: audience analysis, tone, vocabulary choices, oral language v written language, outlining a speech, using transitions, how to end and open a speech well.
290 demonstration speech topics
A large collection of carefully selected and themed demonstration speech topics suitable for middle school upwards. With guidelines covering how to choose the best topic to fit both the audience and the speaker.
Vocal variety exercises to improve the quality of your voice
Good vocal variety significantly increases how well an audience listens to your presentation. Easily implemented tips and exercises. Suitable for middle school upwards.
Church welcome speech example
An example of an effective short church welcome speech for newcomers to your congregation.
Company Christmas Party Speech Examples
How to efficiently prepare a sincere short Christmas speech for a company Christmas party. Full guidelines. Two speech examples and a printable speech planner to download.
Controversial speech topics for high school and college students
A collection of 242 deliberatively provocative controversial or argumentative speech topics for high school and college students with guidelines on how to choose the best topic to fit the speech purpose, audience and the speaker.