HOW TO MAKE A CHOCOLATE CAKE

Answer each question in each section (Introduction, Body, Conclusion, and Presentation).  How would you defend your speech about “HOW TO MAKE A CHOCOLATE CAKE”?  MORE THAN FOUR SENTENCES FOR EACH QUESTION.

INTRODUCTION section:

1-Did you gain the attention and interest of your audience?

2-Did you establish credibility in the introduction?

3-Did you indicate the relevance of your speech to the audience? In other words, did you offer your audience a reason to listen to your speech?

4-Did you declare your central idea /thesis?

5-Did you preview your main points? Ex: First, I will..; Second, I will..; Finally, I will….

BODY section:

1-Were your main points clear and obvious to the audience?

2-Did your main points support your central idea/thesis with more than enough information, facts, examples, narrative, anecdotes, quotes or statistics?

3-Did you support your thesis and main points with some kind. of.visual aid?

4-Did you link the introduction and the body with a transition?

5-Did you link each point (1, 2, 3, etc.) with a transition between the points?

6-Did you link the body and the conclusion with a transition?

Conclusion:

1-Did you summarize or restate the main points of the speech?

2-Did your speech come to a closure and offered the audience a suggestion of what to do with the information you just provided them with?

Presentation:

1-Did you avoid using jargon/slang?

2-Did you use descriptive language (words and expressions that appeal to the senses such as taste, touch, sight, smell, and sound)?

3- How was your posture/ body movement?

4- Did you have any hand gestures?

5-Did you established and maintained consistent eye contact with the audience? In other words, did you look into the eyes of individual audience members and held contact?

6-was your pace slow, moderate, or fast? and how did it help or take away from your speech.

7-Was your tone (the feeling or mood expressed in your voice) appropriate for your topic? In other words, did your tone express a feeling or mood of happiness, enthusiasm, excitement, appreciation, admiration, sadness,

etc…

8-Did you use your pitch (how low or high your voice is) appropriately to demonstrate enthusiasm, excitement, concern, and dedication to your topic? Or was your pitch monotone?

9-Was your volume appropriate for everyone in the audience to hear? In other words, did you use a quiet voice or a loud voice?

10-Did you incorporate any pauses in your speech? In other words, did you incorporate short pauses after every sentence, and longer pauses at the ends of paragraphs to give yourself time to think and for your audience to grasp your ideas more effectively ?