How To Start Your Speech (3 excellent openings) 

Lol I thought he said I'm a member of Ghostbusters

Great and mercifully short! You just helped me orient the beginning of my own upcoming speech much more effectively. Thank you!

this video won't make my public speaking disappear but it gave me new ideas on how to try and improve. good explanations with examples. finally, some tips that makes sense!

If you want to join a speech contest, being able to control your body expression is the main thing!

I really liked the ted examples,i found myself so hooked on what was being said I almost forgot what the actual purpose of the video I was watching was. Defiantly some useful points.

Just joined Toastmasters,preparing for my icebreaker and this was indeed helpful.

Thanks Jeff. Very helpful video

Here is what I created: *slams pencil on the table* Look at this pencil. Look at it. Does anybody know where it came from? The Earth people. The Earth. The only Earth we got. And we choose to take advantage of this.

This will help me with my speeches ! Thnx

This really helped me thank you very much.

great lesson. this will help for my up coming 'big' executive meet. thanx

I'm doing a speech I'm explaining how my topic is protecting myself thank you for my confidence

Wow some good information that I really needed, thanks so much for putting this on RU-vid:)

Many thanks to Jeff Roy (Jean-François Roy)! You changed my opening speech presentation from boring to something interesting. Let me share you my real research . story. Before I start my research presentation I would like to share you my personal story that makes me interested on the idea of agricultural insurance. When I came to Mozambique, I surprised watching different empty bottles everywhere. So, I decided to write my research proposal on WTP for waste glass bottle in Maputo city ( Master Degree). However, different professors suggested me to change the title since it is not directly related with my profession. So, my supervisor advised me to change my title by willingness to pay for horticultural insurance. I felt really bad that day because I couldn’t have any idea about it. So I get out the point and I come to present on Willingness to Pay for Horticulture Insurance: The case study of Tomato Farmers in Moamba District, Mozambique.

Sir Thank you so so so much for giving me such a great idea

Thank you so much it Really helped me cause i saw this video before my speech in 2 days and i won thank u so much

Thank you I got stuck on my speech starter and now I know what I will do. :)

Great ways...thank you for the insight

So helpful. i am so glad i came across this video.

This is very helpful....Thanks!

This video really helped thanks!!!

Hi Jeff,Thanks now I can do something good in presentation. Regards:

how do i start my speech on manuscript speech ?

Omg thanks fir helping me so much!

Thank you.. Its inspire me

Great tips! Just joined Toastmasters 2 weeks ago and have my Icebreaker next week!

This was really helpful and time saving ! I'm in a business class so speech is everything . Thank you so much!!!

I agree the opening is not strong; other variables must keep people watching...

good piece of information in a short time... awesome clippings

Hi thank you I have an interview coming up that really helped

thank you for this video😊

very good for me to listen

This helped me alot thanks jeff

Thanks It is very amazing

Thank you so much!!

very useful, thank you very much

Fantastic.. Good note.

thanks Jeff I was very helpful

Thank you this really helps. 6 years later

your video just gave me a wonderful idea which to my opinion i'd say is a pretty good opening.... for my first toastmaster's icebreaker speech... Thank you so much ^_^

Thank you

great, thanks for sharing

Thanks for sharing!

really helpful thank you

Very good suggestions

Hi Jeff, Thanks for posting this. I teach public speaking at a university and I use this in class. It's a nice, quick breakdown of the concepts.

Your videos inspire me to further into my career of catching planets

God, Finally I found it! Thank you~ Helped me A LOT. :)

A good one ... It really helped me!

Thank you so much.....

After such a great introduction! I can't wait to hear the speaker myself.

I have to write and present a speech being one of the characters from a book, what opening should I use? p.s the book I'm reading is 'the story of tom brennan' thankyou!

My name is Jeff

great help thanks

As a former Canadian Toastmaster, I always use the element of surprise in one way or another as an initial attention getter. At times, even to a unilingual English audience, I can use words and expression from French and Spanish with no expectation of anyone in the audience needing to know one word of those languages, especially as they are EMOTIVE or romance languages. As an example, once the audience is aware that I am a retired electronic technician who is sometimes thought of as "the engineer without the degree", I might start with "The Oscillator Story". That might well sound as if I am about to give a technical description, but this is far from the case! In reality it is a true story that happened to me some years back, sitting alone thinking about an interpersonal problem. As I pondered, I realized that that problem is self-perpertuating! That was it! In a matter of seconds in my head alone I transposed all the details of the problem into the equivalent of the electronic engineering of an oscillator, resolved it that way, as if I were that engineer d designing the oscillator, from scratch, then just as fast re-transposed the results back into the interpersonal problem environment and there lay not only the answer to that problem but additionally to many, many more. Really NOT the technical dissertation one might have expected at the outset! How was this possible? All the salient elements of both problems were essentially quantitative, NOT qualitative, so mathematics of th e dynamics, therein on both sides were the common denominator which made that, and far more possible. Some, on reading this might silently think, even at times gritting their very teeth, that I have some very powerfull speaking skills, But when I listen to those who, also having powerful speaking skills, win big competitions, I have no expectations or real belief that such competitions would be worth my entering. Notwithstanding all the "pragmatic" speaking skills therein, I would not elicit the rave popularity it also takes to win such competitions, not wpould I want my success to be beholding to such popularity at the experience of my mettle (and that Shakespearian word has NOTHING to do with Aluminum or steel! Think, then of your club: would your club want to deal with such mettle in their fold? do you think that if I were to give such a speech as an advanced icebreaker it would be well enough received to result in a successful candidature either for me, or for any other candidate of such mettle? How would you feel about your club's recruitment philosophy and what, in the longer term that quality of recruitment might bring to your personal desire for a better mettle? Could you, either to yourself, or to me, or to anyone, think of a club environment that aligns itself wirth such more steadfast mettle and standing of the frey? Each for each, club for club, the decisions are yours. In the interim, I watch to see what will transpire, not only in Montreal, but globally, given what I can do for the distant online.

Thank you!

Thank u so much! It helps.I'm a networker preparing for my/our business presentation meeting.GOD BLESS Tremendously!

wow wow and wow u gave me great idea thank you a lot

Jeff Roy, When I have just finished watching your INSPIRATHIONAL VIDEO I realized that you helped me out so much with my speech and I want to THANK YOU SO MUCH for being here and making this video on RU-vid. Soon I will show this to my teacher... she will show this to my class and my peers will be so THANKFUL for watching this video... not my video but YOUR video... Just have to say THANK YOU again because you are so AWSOME!!! ( hits the subscribe button )

Thankyou so much sir

can u tell me which one will the better topic

Now i know what to do! Put them altogether hahahah

I love your speech

thanks for this helpful video

thanks

Extremely helpful

when I first heard his intro, I instantly thought of 22 Jump Street.

this will help me

Thanks

Thank you a lot that will help me be vice captain

how do i start my speech in an entertainment speech or how do my speech become entertaining?

I'm doing a school captain speech next Monday and this helped ALOT!!! Thanks!!!

i wanna join speech contest next weeks, and i'am so nervous, what should i do ?

Thanks a lot

I need to do a speech tomorrow but I'm bad at speeches and I'm having to read it to the whole class oh . What should my speech be about

ty for your vid i need it

I really need this because we will be studying this at school this helps me to make my own speech I'm having a hard time when it comes to speech so I really need this video because this helps me alot I'm really afraid of doing a speech that's because I might get wrong with it so I need to learn how to start my speech and how to end it nicely done I have a question how do you start your speech in a nice way? And how do you end your speech in a good way? Hope you answer this I really need help from you

Verry nice

thx that helped me so much XD :)

thanks jeff

Thank you sir🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂

omg i am going to give speech tommarow

love it

Thats a good idea

my aunts a member of toast masters in canada

I can not hear!

I am doing a speech for school and I don't know what to do

good tips

I am currently running for secretary on class(I don't wanna be president it is too stressful) I have social anxiety help me lol. But I am one of the people who has good leadership from what people tell me. I always hear this "good afternoon today I am running for....." seriously it is very obvious lol

i watched this in my English class

great video!

You are EXCELLENT Jeff!! thanks alot...just watched all you videos. You are to the point and very informative. You work hard on the research and a master of you field. Thank you again. God Bless :)

Vandana, whatever you do, you do it so gracefully that no aberration is visible to the viewer. Kudos!

good easy video

hii my name is dan .. i want example of manuscript speech ... do you have . ?

Useful

Nice one

"I'll show you 3 ways to start your speech and hook your audience in less than 30 seconds!" ... Lost me at the 29th second LoL

dude you are good at making speeches cuz u got me hooked inlike the first sec.

I have a presentation to do next week & I want to talk about Moving to Britain should I start with my story how I came ?