Informative SpeakingEnglish 2

Ms. Schremp

INFORMATIVE SPEAKING Purpose of INFORMATIVE SPEAKING is to

educate your audience on a certain topic.

Information is RESEARCH BASED

Information MUST BE presented:› Accurately› Clearly› Meaningfully and Interestingly

Types of Informative Speaking

Processes Objects Events Concepts

Speaking to Inform: Processes

Information on how to complete a task or explain how a process works

Goal: Teach the audience how to complete a task

Examples: How to fill out permit forms, how to play a card game, how to collect stamps› This type of speech is NOT an option for YOUR

SPEECH

Speaking to Inform: Objects Object, Animal, Places or People

Goal: Inform audience about topic in an INTERESTING WAY

Examples: Abraham Lincoln, an extinct animal, Paris, or the new iPhone 5

Must be a creative topic for YOUR SPEECH

Speaking to Inform: Events Information on a past, present or future

event

Goal: Inform audience on events of what occurred and understand what and why it happened.

Rather than a timeline, you may connect between events of the past and events of the present.

Examples: Pearl Harbor, September 11th, The Great Depression

Speaking to Inform: Concepts Informs an audience on certain beliefs, ideas

and theories.

Goal: Provide information to help audience understand a concept they may have little knowledge of.

Examples: Religions, Social Issues, Government

Organizing Your Speech

Chronological Pattern

Climactic Pattern

Cause-Effect Pattern

Problem-Solution Pattern

Chronological Pattern Speech is organized in a time sequence

› Puts things in order of which they happened

Gives audience a complete picture from beginning to end.

What type of informative speech would this work well with?

Climactic Pattern Organize speech main points in order

of importance

Gives dramatic build-up

What type of informative speech would this work well with?

Cause-Effect Pattern Organizes speech in which the “causes” lead to

the “effects”› “because of that, this happens”

Example: › Anorexia

Causes Media Influence Low Self-Esteem

Effects Physical Problems Emotional Problems

What type of informative speech would this work well with?

Problem-Solution Pattern

Organizes speech introducing the problems within a subject and offers possible solutions.

Example: › Child Hunger

Problem Malnutrition Cost

Solution Non-Profit Organizations Conservation

What type of informative speech would this work well with?