Subject: Oral Communication in Context

Topic: Types of Speech According to Purpose: Informative Speech,

Persuasive Speech and Entertainment Speech
Prepared by: Teacher Ana D. Bandiling Grade: 11
Semester: First Week: 7 – 8

QUEST:
Content Standard:
 The learner realizes the rigors of crafting one’s speech.
Learning Competencies:
 The learner distinguishes the types of speeches EN11/12OC-IIcj-23
 The learner uses principles of effective speech delivery in different
situations.EN11/12OC-IIcj-24
 The learner uses principles of effective speech writing focusing on logical
organization, duration, word choice, and grammar. EN11/12OC-IIcj-25

WHAT I KNOW?
Instructions: Complete the table by providing descriptions of the different concepts
presented.

Types of Speech
Speech Content Description according to Description
Purpose

Intrapersonal Expository

Interpersonal Informative

Public Persuasive

Mass Entertainment

EQUIP: Types of Speech According to

Purpose

Informative Speech

An informative speech is given for the

purpose of providing information about a topic
to the audience. Notice that the purpose of an
informative speech is similar to the purpose for
writing an informative essay. The
organizational structure and type of information
in an informative speech would be similar to
that in an informative essay.

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 To write an informative speech, you first choose a topic-either one that you
already know about or one that you are willing to research and learn about. Then, you
outline and draft your informative speech based on the topic, key points, and details and
information you want to give about your topic. Make sure you catch your audience's
attention and that you summarize key points and "take-aways" as you go. Generally,
there are four types of informative speeches which vary depending on the topic. These
are speech about objects or people, speech about processes, speech about events,
and speech about concepts.

An informative speech can follow different patterns of organization to arrange

and frame the details effectively.

A. Chronological Pattern. This can be used if you want to present the history,
evolution, or development of your topic in a sequential order, from past to present or
beginning to end.
B. Spatial Pattern. This pattern is used when you want to talk about the
physical structure of an object or the way things fit together in a certain space (Glendale
Community College; University of Washington Tacoma). Topics that deal with
geography fit this pattern best.
C. Topical/Categorical Pattern. This can be used if you want to inform your
audience about the main features, descriptions, or categories of your topic.
D. Cause-Effect Pattern. This can be used if you want to show the causal
relationship of events or phenomena.

MISSION I. Multiple Choice

Instructions: Read the questions carefully. Choose the letter of the best answer by
encircling it. Have fun and let us gauge how much you have learned!
1. Which among the following is NOT purpose of an informative speech?
a. To supplement more information about a topic audience may have a little idea
about.
b. To recognize listeners’ opinion about a certain issue.
c. To increase audience’s knowledge about a certain issue.
d. None of the above

2. Decide which among the topic would be LEAST appropriate for an informative
speech.

a. From Prison to Throne: The Life of Joseph

b. The Brave Queen: How Esther Faced the King
c. Building the Unsinkable: Noah’s Step-by-step Guide
d. None of the above

3. An informative speaker should be good at explaining, defining, and describing chosen

topic area.
a. True
b. False

4. If you intend your audience to learn how to bake bread, which speech is best to
deliver?

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 a. Speech of description
b. Speech of explanation
c. Speech of demonstration
d. Speech of information

5. The Queen of Sheba recounted her experience after visiting and learning from King
Solomon. What type of informative speech did she most likely deliver?

a. Speech of description
b. Speech of explanation
c. Speech of demonstration
d. Speech of information

There are several ways of informing audience which are also the types of informative
speech that facilitate mutual understanding: speeches of description, speeches of
explanation and speeches of demonstration. Each of these types is governed by its own
objective.

 Speech of description tries to create a clearer picture in the mind of the

listeners by answering comprehensive questions like who, what, or where.
In this type of speech, the speaker describes a place, object, or a person
in a way that audience can accurately visualize it in their own mind. In a
general sense, the speaker aims the listeners to experience something
through him/her (speaker). Examples of this are troop leader’s speech
informing the scouts about things to prepare for the survival camp,
historian’s account of life and works of a national hero, missionary’s
narrative of the experiences working with the indigenous tribe, and a
traveler’s description of idyllic beaches one can visit on a tight budget.

 Speech of explanation clarifies to the audience how a specific process is

done, but should not be misinterpreted as a how to speech. Speeches of
explanation focus on description of the procedure but not on how to do the
procedure. This is similar to an expert explaining the process how candles
are made but not telling you the exact steps you have to do in making a
candle. It is more of a cognitive approach to a process. Examples of this
are how good study habits help learners retain more information, how lack
of sleep affects the body, or how our body reacts when we are in love.

 Speech of demonstration is how to speech. The speaker instructs

listeners the step by step procedure on how to do things. This type of
speech gives you the ‘hands-on’ feeling. Examples of this are the top
student’s ten tips on how to ace a final test, how to win friends and
influence people, how to write an effective resume, or how to bake a carrot
cake.

Presented are three categories of informative speech. But as a speaker, you

should not be limited in using just one of them. As a matter of fact, by combining several
categories, you can make your informative speech more interesting and appealing to
the listeners. Take this scenario: you have been assigned to deliver a speech about the
pound-for-pound, eight division world champion, boxing legend Manny Pacquaio. For
starter, you may first describe Manny – his feature, his profile, his family background,
and his humble beginnings (speech of description). Then later, you may explain how he
metamorphosed from being a novice to a professional boxer (speech of explanation).
And in the last part of your speech, you may share things that you have learned on how
to beat odds and be successful gleaned from the practices of Manny Pacquiao (speech
of demonstration).

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Informative Speech Sample

Excerpt from Marie Curie's speech on the discovery of radium:

I could tell you many things about radium and radioactivity and it would take a long time. But
as we cannot do that, I shall only give you a short account of my early work about radium. Radium
is no more a baby, it is more than twenty years old, but the conditions of the discovery were
somewhat peculiar, and so it is always of interest to remember them and to explain them. We must
go back to the year 1897. Professor Curie and I worked at that time in the laboratory of the school
of Physics and Chemistry where Professor Curie held his lectures. I was engaged in some work on
uranium rays which had been discovered two years before by Professor Becquerel.

I spent some time in studying the way of making good measurements of the uranium rays,
and then I wanted to know if there were other elements, giving out rays of the same kind. So I took
up a work about all known elements, and their compounds and found that uranium compounds are
active and also all thorium compounds, but other elements were not found active, nor were their
compounds. As for the uranium and thorium compounds, I found that they were active in proportion
to their uranium or thorium content.

Persuasive Speech

A persuasive speech is given for the purpose of

persuading the audience to feel a certain way, to take a
certain action, or to support a specific view or cause.
Notice that the purpose of a persuasive speech is similar
to the purpose for writing an argumentative or
persuasive essay. The organizational structure and type
of information in a persuasive speech would be similar to
that in persuasive essay.

To write a persuasive speech, you choose a topic about which people disagree
or can have differing opinions. Your persuasive argument will be made stronger if you
can demonstrate that you are passionate about the topic and have a strong opinion one
way or the other. Then, you outline and draft your persuasive speech by taking a
position on the topic and outlining your support for your position. It is often helpful to
also discuss why the "other side" is incorrect in their beliefs about the topic. Make sure
you catch your audience's attention and that you summarize key points and "take-
aways" as you go.

Persuasive speaking is the form of communication that people of diverse

backgrounds mostly engage in. This kind of speech can center on any arguably
interesting topic under the sun. When you deliver your persuasive speech, your primary
goal is to influence the thoughts, feelings, actions, and behaviors or attitudes of your
listeners (Gamble & Gamble, 2012). Likewise, you also aim to change their perception
and convince them that your argument is more important, practical, attainable, or
feasible. In essence, you—as a persuasive speaker— advocate for whatever your
message is.

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Persuasive Speech Sample

Martin Luther King, Jr.'s I Have a Dream speech

Now is the time to make real the promises of democracy. Now is the time to rise from the
dark and desolate valley of segregation to the sunlit path of racial justice. Now is the time to
lift our nation from the quick sands of racial injustice to the solid rock of brotherhood. Now is
the time to make justice a reality for all of God's children.

MISSION II. Short response

Measure how much you have learned by answering the following:

1. What is the persuasive speech and how does it differ from an informative one?
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2. How can a persuasive speech be more difficult than an informative one?

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Entertainment Speech

An entertainment speech aims to share

goodwill, joy, and pleasure to the audience. The
purpose of an entertainment speech is not to
educate, inform, or inspire because the primary
goal is to make the audience relax, enjoy, and
even laugh. This means that you, the speaker, are
expected to be friendly and relaxed, but still
courteous during the speech delivery. Moreover,
you should know your audience well in order to
entertain them effectively.

How to Make your Speech Entertaining?

To make your speech entertaining, you may:

 tell jokes;  dramatize experiences; and

 share funny stories;  recall a scary story.

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Steps in Writing an Entertaining Speech

1. Choose! Choose a light topic. Remember, you are there to give the audience a good
time.
2. Enjoy! If you exude confidence and you obviously enjoy the moment, the audience will
enjoy your presence, too.
3. Simplify! Simplify the flow of your speech. Your audience does not need a mentally
exhausting message.

Entertainment speech sample

My heart goes out in sympathy to anyone who is making his first appearance before an audience of human
beings. By a direct process of memory I go back forty years, less one month—for I'm older than I look.

I recall the occasion of my first appearance. San Francisco knew me then only as a reporter, and I was to
make my bow to San Francisco as a lecturer. I knew that nothing short of compulsion would get me to the theater. So I
found myself by a hard-and-fast contract so that I could not escape. I got to the theater forty-five minutes before the
hour set for the lecture. My knees were shaking so that I didn't know whether I could stand up. If there is an awful,
horrible malady in the world, it is stage fright—and seasickness. They are a pair. I had stage fright then for the first and
last time. I was only seasick once, too. I was on a little ship on which there were two hundred other passengers. I—
was—sick. I was so sick that there wasn't any left for those other two hundred passengers.

It was dark and lonely behind the scenes in that theater, and I peeked through the little peek holes they have in
theater curtains and looked into the big auditorium. That was dark and empty, too. By and by it lighted up, and the
audience began to arrive.

MISSION III. Short- response

Measure how much you have learned by answering the following:

1. What is the purpose of the entertainment speech?

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2. How is an entertainment speech different from other speech types?

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3. What are some events that humorous or entertaining speech would be appropriate?
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MISSION IV. SEARCH &CUT & PASTE.

Instructions: Search at least one sample speech in each Types of Speech According to Purpose
from the internet and paste it on the space provided. (Do not forget to include the resources.)

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 STACK: Performance Task: ICON MINDMAP
Direction: In a long bond paper, draw a concept map that links all the ideas learned in this
module. However, instead of using texts, use symbols or icons. Have fun!

MISSION V. KWLH Chart Now, based on the above discussions, fill-in the following KWLH Chart
to track your learning status in this module. Write your answer on a separate sheet of paper.

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 K W L H
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Type of Speech
According to
Purpose:
Informative
Speech

Type of
Speech
According to
Purpose:
Persuasive
Speech

Type of Speech
According to
Purpose:
Entertainment
Speech

References:

BOOK: Oral Communication in Context for Senior High School Philippe John FresnilloSipacio,
Anne Richie Garcia Balgos, 2016, p. 80.

Internet source:

 richardsonthebrain.com/
https://newsmoor.com/communication-elements-9-components-of-basic
 communication-process/Oral-Communication-Module-7.pdf

ORAL COMMUNICATION

CHECKPOINT
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7 -8 Week Assessment

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Name: Grade & Section:
Subject Teacher: Score:

Activity I. Identification

Directions: Identify the different types of speech as described in each item. Write your answers
on the space provided. (Informative, Persuasive, Entertainment)
__________ 1. This type of speech aims to give a simplified presentation and avoid giving an
exhausting message to the audience.
___________2. The purpose of this speech is to give an array of information across on different
topics following the chronological order of information.
___________3. It is imperative on this type of speech to have a well summarized key point of
the particular topic in order to avoid confusion from the audience.
___________4. Cause and Effect pattern is important in writing this type of speech in order to
show causal- event relationship about a phenomenon.
___________5. The primary goal of this type of speech is to influence the thoughts, behaviors
and actions of the listeners.

Activity II.

Directions: Answer the following questions.

1. State the 4 patterns of organization in Informative Speech.

2. Explain how to write a Persuasive Speech.

3. How to make your speech entertaining?