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Your task: Present a 3-4 minute self introduction speech. Your classmates already know you, so you must select topics/stories that will entertain and inform your classmates.


 * Given a choice of options, inform the audience about yourself ||
 * Construct effective opening and closings for your speech ||
 * Make a full sentence outline ||
 * Create note cards that will be used to deliver your speech ||
 * Deliver a formal, extemporaneous speech ||

You should select a theme to help guide your speech. For example, you could describe a wonderful family experience and describe how this has shaped your personality.

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= **Top 12 Self Introduction Speech Topics** =

Self Introduction Speech How To
> Now that you have picked out a central thesis, use this self introduction sample speech outline.
 * This article offers the following advice:
 * ===Sample Self Introduction Speech Outline===
 * Grab their attention. Immediately bring in your central speech idea.
 * Give some background information. Tell why it is important to you, why you are doing it, why you want to tell them, etcetera.
 * Now work out your topic in a few sentences. Draw the contours, make it personal.
 * Give an example.
 * In conclusion, offer a memorable answer on the question the listeners probably will have when they listen to your public speaking speech: what's in it for me? Tell how this aspect of your life makes who you are and what you are. It will be the perfect ending of your self introduction speech.

__Other Ideas__

 * 1) ==Compare yourself to an object or objects==
 * 2) __My life is like a three-ring circus: one ring my family, one my career, and one my education.__
 * 3) __I like to compare myself to a VCR: I like to look at my past, wish I could pause moments in my present, and am anxious to fast forward to my future.__
 * 4) ==Bring an object or objects and tell why it is important to you==
 * 5) __Talk about why the object is important to you, where you got it, what it is, what it means to you, a story about you that relates to it, possibly even how it will continue to relate to you in the future.__
 * 6) ==Talk about a turning point in your life==
 * 7) __An injury where you had to change career choices, a house fire that caused you to realize something, the birth of a child, the loss of a loved one, etc.__
 * 8) ==Expose a fear==
 * 9) __Tell of a specific fear that you have and tell a story about a situation involving that fear__