Public Speaking – Non Verbal and Verbal Delivery Workshop
ONE SENTENCE – ONE MINUTE
Instructions: Choose one sentence from the collection below and deliver a one minute speech during which the only words you speak are the words sentence you choose. You should stick to the basic content of the sentence, but you can ad lib a bit to enhance the original sentence.
Focus: Each time you say the sentence, work on implementing appropriate gestures, movement, eye contact, pausing, and inflecting.
1. We must work together to build a successful school.
2. The issues we are facing are not as big as other people would have you believe.
3. We should look to the past to find our way into the future.
4. The grass is not, in fact, always greener on the other side of the fence. The grass is greenest where you water it.
5. Tom Clancy once said, “The difference between fiction and reality is that fiction has to make sense.”
6. They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world: someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.
7. According to actor Will Smith, “Money and success don't change people; they merely amplify what is already there.”
8. The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
9. There are great men who make everyone feel small, but the really great man is the man who makes every man feel great.
10. Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do.
11. According to Jerry Seinfeld, “Research shows that approximately 40% of people are more scared of public speaking than they are of death. This means that at the average funeral 40% of those present would rather be in the coffin than give the eulogy.”