Why speeches are bad
It’s that time of the year again. It’s that time of the year where we have to write a speech, plain old useless speech which we are never going to use again. HI my names and I’m going to talk to you about public speaking and how painful and pointless it is. The time it takes to write a speech is frustrating and annoying, you spend days writing your speech or if your one of those kids who can’t be bothered writing a speech, because of how frustrating It Is.
You spend one of your busy nights trying to find a decent speech to copy off the Internet, don’t worry Mr./Mrs. – lilt copy this speech off the Internet, I can’t say the same for the rest of the class though. Then there’s the speaking side of your public speech, the part where you spend the night before printing cue cards, rehearsing It around the house, you then get to your big day you feel prepared you’ve rehearsed you have even brought your cue cards to school. Then there’s your big moment and you forget everything you have rehearsed, you Just had last year’s public speaking champion speak before you.
The butterflies in your stomach are going mad. You start reading your speech, you start stuttering so much that you keep your head down and start reading off your cue cards which are really just your speech cut up into several pieces. You finish your speech and wait for your feedback and all you get is C. Teachers will argue with you that public speaking isn’t pointless that it will help you in the future, that maybe so but is it worth spending 4 weeks of school. Two of which are school holidays. Is it worth it? My name is -? and this is why I think public speaking is pointless and painful.
