Types of Speech According

to Delivery and Purpose

Prepared by: Ms. Marecris M. Ablan
Lesson Objectives:
1. Differentiate the types of
speech according to
delivery
2. Evaluate a speech
Stage Fright
is anxiety felt when in front of
an audience.
Some of its symptoms include
dry mouth, tense voice, fast
breathing, sweaty palms,
shaky legs, and a pounding
heart (Franklin & Clark,
2001).
 Some Tips To Battle Stage Fright
● Research the topic thoroughly to feel more
prepared and confident.
● Think of the audience as friends.
● Take deep breaths to calm yourself.
● Release the tension in your body by
moving and making appropriate gestures.
 Types of Speech According to its Purpose
1. Informative Speech provides the audiences with
the clear understanding of a concept or idea.
2. Entertainment speech amuses the audience. The
humorous speeches of comedians and performers
are the best example.
3. Persuasive speech seeks to provide the audience
with favorable or acceptable ideas that can
influence their own ideas and decisions.
Types of Speech According to Delivery

1. Extemporaneous
2. Impromptu
3. Manuscript
4. Memorized
 Extemporaneous

Descriptions Speaking Situations

● Speaking with limited
preparation
● Guided by notes or outline
● Delivered conversationally
● Most popular type
● When you are a candidate
for a post in a students
government and you deliver
your campaign speech
before a voting public
● When you are assigned to
report a topic in class
 Extemporaneous

Tips
Advantages
● Create an outline
● Helps you look confident ● Organize your points
● Engages the audience logically
● Use facts and real-life
Disadvantages experiences as your
examples
● Inadequate time ● Manage your time well
preparation to plan, ● Rehearse, rehearse,
organize, and rehearse rehearse
 Impromptu

Descriptions Speaking Situations

● Speaking without ● In an event where you are
advanced preparation asked to say a few words
● Unrehearsed speech ● First day at work or in class,
● Spoken conversationally or during an interview
 Impromptu
Advantages
● Spontaneous or natural
speaking
● More focused and brief
Disadvantages
● Tendency to be disorganized
● Lacks connection with the
audience
● Nerve-racking for inexperienced
speakers and beginners
Tips
● Create an outline
● Organize your points
logically
● Use facts and real-life
experiences as your
examples
● Manage your time well
● Rehearse, rehearse,
rehearse
 Manuscript
Descriptions Speaking Situations
● Speaking with advanced ● Newscasting with a
preparation TelePrompter or an autocue
● Planned and rehearsed device
speech ● Presenting the legal
● Reading aloud a written proceedings and verdict in
message court
● Reading the rules and
criteria in a contest
 Manuscript
Advantages
● Exact repetition of the Tips
written words ● Rehearse the speech over
● Guided speech and over again until you
sound natural
Disadvantages ● Observe accomplished
● Boring and uninteresting news anchors and note how
presentation conversational they sound
● Lacks audience rapport or when they deliver the news
connection
 Memorized
Descriptions Speaking Situations
● Speaking with advanced ● When you perform in a
preparation stage play
● Planned and rehearsed ● When you deliver a
speech declamation, oratorical, or
● Reciting a written message literary piece
word-for-word from ● When an actor or actress
memory performs a script from
memory in a scene
 Memorized
Advantages
● Exact repetition of the
written words from a
memory
● Maintained eye-contact
● Free to move around the
stage
● Gestures are used
Disadvantages
● Speakers might end up
speaking in a monotone pattern.
Alternatively, he/she might take
a fast pace
● When the speaker cannot
control his/her stage fright,
he/she might have difficulty
remembering his/her memorized
speech
 Memorized

Tips
● Rehearse the speech over and over again until
you sound natural and feel confident
● Observe how actors/actresses perform their
script in a theater, television, or movie scenes