Speech classes are so much more fun when everyone participates in special activities! Try some of these ideas to warm up your next class:

1. He speaks improvised. Give students various topics to talk about without any preparation. Topics should be relatively easy at first, like “What is your favorite movie and why?” or “If you could only eat one meal for a month, what would it be?”
2. Lost in a desert island game. Present the scenario: After a shipwreck, the entire class is stranded on a desert island. Each person can bring an object to the island. Have each student describe what that object would be and why. (You can extend this to a team building activity by breaking into teams and having each team figure out how to creatively combine their elements to increase survivability.)
3. Tongue twister contest. Have two people come together and take turns repeating a tongue twister. “Unique New York” “Red leather, yellow leather.” More and faster. When someone makes a mistake, they sit down and a challenger appears. Someone can keep score with the class list.
4. Dramatic Alphabet or Numbers. Students can “teach a lesson” to the class by reciting the alphabet or counting to 30, but with gestures, drama, and eye contact. ABCD! EFGH? I, JKL-M …, etc. You could emphasize eye contact by adding this activity: the speaker must make and maintain eye contact for at least 3 seconds per person. All the students raise their hands. When the speaker initiates eye contact with someone, that person mentally counts to 3 and then lowers their hand, letting the speaker know that the 3 seconds have elapsed. The speaker can pass to another person. You could even turn it into a competition.
5. Dramatic reading. You, of course, could choose an intriguing passage, or you could do something like have them read the definitions out loud, just to make it silly and dramatic.
6. Exercise transitions. Distribute 3 sheets of paper to each of the students and have some categories written on the board. (Places, School people, Meals, TV shows). Ask each student to choose 3 of the categories and write a word that belongs to that category. Then collect the slips in a container. Each student goes to the front of the room in turn, takes a piece of paper, and begins talking about whatever is on that paper. Then after a little time, you pick another sheet for the student and say, “Okay Amanda, your next topic is …” and then the student’s job is to move from one topic to the next. It’s okay for the audience to help. It’s okay to offer another topic if the student is stuck. Using “apples” and “New York City” as examples, the transitions can be phrases like: Now that I’ve told you about the health benefits of apples, let me talk about the health benefits of living in the City of New York. New York. Finally, let me tell you what New York was called the Big Apple.
7. On the other hand. Get 2 students up. Ask one student to speak “for” an issue and then ask the other person to speak “against” the same issue.
8. One word story. Line up 7-10 students to the front (actually it’s best if they stand in a circle) and ask them to tell an unrehearsed and unthinkable story one word at a time, riding their bikes to the beginning until the story reaches a certain tone. logical conclusion. The key is that each person can only say one word at a time and this includes boring words like “and” and “the”. You can start the story by saying something like “One”. (The logical thing that will come later would be “day”, but it could certainly be something else).
9. Sell ​​a product. Have strange objects for students to “sell” to their classmates. You can enter the FAB format and ask them to use it. F = Features, A = Advantages, B = Benefits. The focus should be on the benefits. Anyone want toilet paper?

Add in some fun activities and watch the interest level rise in your class!