TFL 359 -PUBLIC SPEAKING QUIZ 2

The first steps in preparing a speech are (tick all that apply):

• Prepare your outfit

• Survey your audience

• Select and narrow down your topic

• Determine your main purpose

According to the guidelines for selecting a topic, the topic of your speech should (tick all that apply):

• be relevant to inetersts of the listeners

• be relevant to expectations of the listeners

• take into account the knowledge listeners

• choose topics that are important

Is given statement TRUE or FALSE: When selecting a topic, considering an occasion is important.

• TRUE

• FALSE

A problem solving technique that is widely used in such diverse fields as business, advertising, writing, and science, (a)   can easily be used to generate ideas for speech topics as well. (Please type using lowercase letters only.)

Listening and Reading for Topic Ideas is a bad strategy.

• TRUE

• FALSE

What are the guidelines for selecting a topic?(tick all that apply)

• Consider your audience

• Consider an occasion

• Consider yourself

• Consider everything

The general purpose, or overarching goal of any speech is either....: (tick all that apply)

• to provoke

• to inform

• to entertain

• to persuade

An informative speaker is a teacher. They give listeners information. They _______,________,or _________ a thing,person, event, proces, etc.

• inform, attract, engage

• inform, define, explain

• define, decribe, explain

• attract, describe, define

___________ speakers may offer information, but they use the information to try to change or reinforce an audience's convictions and often to urge some sort of action.

• Informative

• Good

• Entertaining

• Persuasive

The concise statement of what you want your listeners to know, feel, or be able to do when you finish speaking.

• The general purpose

• Specific purpose

• Central idea

• Main idea