The Night Before Your Speech
A workbook to learn your speech or toast, then give it without notes
Written, but not learned yet?
Turn the key points into pictures, and give it with your eyes up.
Five main ideas are easy to hold. Know them, and you can say each one in your own words, even if a line goes missing. Five steps, the method behind each one, and the sheet.
She reads her toast word by word. Tonight, she makes five odd pictures. In the morning, she runs them again. Eyes up, she speaks, and the room laughs.
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After you pay, the download link comes to your email. Save the file when it arrives: the link runs out.
With a free Tewtors account. By card, the download link comes to your email once it goes through. With PromptPay, a person checks your slip first, usually the same day. Save the file when it arrives: the link runs out.
The Magnificent 7, white to black
- Decide to BEWhite belt · learn the points, not every word
- 1. Brainstorm your key pointsYellow belt · one keyword a point
- 2. Make each point a pictureOrange belt · something you can see
- 3. Link each to a numberGreen belt · one is sun, two is shoe
- 4. Rehearse it in your headBlue belt · see it go well
- 5. The two minutes beforeRed belt · run the numbers once more
- DO it nowBlack belt · on paper first, then in your head
Questions
Go back to the last number you said and walk to the next: four is door. Let the picture bring the point back, and your words come with it.
No. The numbers hold the points in order, and you say each one your own way. A line that must be exact, like a quote, can go on a small card.
Yes. Any speech with a few main ideas works the same way: a wedding toast, a work update, a eulogy, a class you teach, a talk at your club.
A look inside
What you get
- Printable PDF, US Letter and A4
- Two filled-in examples: a wedding toast and a talk at work
- Your sheet and the page to brainstorm your speech on, to print and fill in, one set for each speech you give
- 24 pages
- A digital download: nothing is shipped. Print it at home. For your own use.