9 Extemporaneous Speaking Tips, Topics and Tricks

First, I'll define extemporaneous briefly. What is an extemporaneous speech anyway?

Secondly, I will give hints, tips and tricks on how to prepare an extemp.

The third part: it's all about delivery stuff and things like that...

What Is Extemporaneous Speaking?

1. Competition
It is a type of event that occurs at high schools and colleges. And that's perhaps why you are reading this article. Good! It's all in the preparation, wise (wo)men say :-)

The competitors are given a few extemporaneous public speaking topics and have a half hour or so to prepare public speaking topics and make the best outline.

This kind of speaking is done with few note cards or even no single note, and is usually loosely planned, rather than memorized or read from a prompter.

This kind of public speaking is a great way to become quicker thinking and to improve at persuasion, and it is an important background skill for many people, from politicians to people in business sales careers.

2. Social
Less formal extemporaneous speaking is likely to happen at major social events like weddings and funerals.

You may be called upon some day to talk about someone or something, and there's a good chance you won't get much time to prepare.

However, just about every situation will give you a minute or two, and that's when you can easily work out a really good speech topic - provided you know how.

Coming up now: in part 2 and 3 you will find the things you can do to make yourself much better with extemporaneous public speaking topics :-)