Full Impromptu Speech: "If You Have Your Health You Have Your Wealth" by James Chen

Audience Analysis

James opens with a maxim he acknowledges as familiar to his audience. He structures his main points to suit the interests and needs of his audience to be physically healthy and attractive, to make friends, and achieve their goals.

His use of language is straightforward and sets the right tone of informality without becoming sloppy or overly casual.

Content and Supporting Ideas

James successfully develops the premise that playing sports is good for a person. The maxim he chooses to open the speech is slightly off the mark, leading to the assertion that health equals or creates wealth. This is not the direction his supporting ideas take.

Each of James's three main points is developed with several examples and balances the three with the same amount of attention.

James selects language to his benefit. He incorporates adroit word play such as "It not only tones your body. . .it tunes your body," and repeats phrases like ". . . the best way to increase your standard of living, the best way to increase your health . . ." which enhances his ethos.

Introduction/Transitions/Conclusion

James creates a concise introduction with a clear preview of three unified main points. He transitions gracefully between the main segments of the speech and between each of the three main points.

His conclusion is succinct. The summary of his three points is general. Here he might have reiterated the key points of sports benefiting his listeners' health, their ability to make friends, and achieve goals. The conclusion ends with a terse sense of finality and authority.

Delivery

James is engaged in his topic, his voice suggests sincerity and conviction. He has moments of hesitancy but they do not throw him and could be corrected with a slightly slower pace or short pauses. James has a distracting tendency to repeat the same gesture too many times. He uses a single small page to briefly prompt himself which he handles smoothly and then immediately resumes direct eye contact with his audience.