This document outlines a workshop on choosing great speech topics. The workshop objectives are to enhance participants' skills in selecting speech topics, facilitate discussion, and have fun selecting topics. The workshop covers how to select topics by knowing your audience and choosing passionate topics. It also discusses what types of topics to consider, such as people, processes, places, and events. Popular speech topic categories are listed. The workshop concludes with an interactive group discussion about how participants choose topics for speech projects.

1. Toastmaster Advanced Boot Camp 2011 Shahnaz Davachi, Ph.D, ACS, ALB Area Governor, Area 10, Division G

2. Choosing Great Speech Topics

5. WHEN/WHERE to use speech topics

8. What are their needs?

9. What are their interests?

10. What is their age, gender?

11. What is their educational level?

12. Choose a topic that you are passionate about

13. Talk about what you know

14. Speak to Learn

15. Look for timely topics

18. Avoid highly complex topics

19. Avoid sensitive topics

20. Choose diverse topics

21. What to talk about?????

22. Popular Speech Topic Categories

24. Other people

25. Pets, animals

26. Forests

27. Aliens

29. Leadership

30. Teamwork

31. Renovations

32. Recipes

33. Witchcraft

34. Science

36. Museums

37. Under sea

39. Sports

40. Ceremonies

41. Holidays

43. Selecting the “right” topic for a “right” project

44. Group Discussion How do you choose your topics for speech projects?

46. To entertain?

47. To demonstrate?

48. To motivate? call for action?

49. To persuade?

50. To Inspire?

52. Speaking to inform

53. Research

54. PPT presentation

55. Specialty speeches

57. Get to the point

59. Vocal variety

61. Dramatize

62. Speaking to inform

63. Humorous speech