Persuasive Speech Topics and Ideas

You have been asked to give a persuasive speech. This is a much harder task than the informative speech. The problem is what topic to choose for your speech. Here is a list with a number of good ideas.

Ready made persuasive speeches

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• Social Networking
• Global warming
• Diana – Cover up or Accident?
• Organ Donation

Ideas in pictures

The i-pod generation – Should music be free? Man’s best friend?  Road congestion charging – the way of the future? Can drugs reverse the ageing process? The internet – the death of the newspaper? Did they really put a man on the moon? Are we happier than our parents generation?

Persuasive Speech Topics

• The case for organ donation
• The need for recycling
• Why the death penalty should be abolished
• The need for gun control
• The dangers of taking illegal steroids
• How to pay off your credit card
• Avoiding drinking or drunk driving
• Why we should abolish school uniform
• Global Warming – What we can do about it
• Why we should wear seat belts in cars
• Why you should become a blood donor
• The dangers of gambling
• Gay marriage
• Euthanasia
• Avoiding student debt
• Avoiding junk food
• Pay off your student loan in three easy steps
• Volunteering – What can you do about it?
• Golf – the best hobby in the world or a complete waste of time?
• Ten good tips for legal tax avoidance
• Three easy ways to improve your time management
• Can drugs reverse the ageing process?
• If you believe – they put a man on the moon
• Ten things you can do for a Dollar/ Euro/ Pound
• What you should wear for your next date/ job interview

More topics

• Animal rights
• I can make you thin
• Princess Diana – a cover up?
• Internet – the death of the newspaper?
• Can we eradicate AIDS in Africa?
• Is Broadband economic in rural areas?
• What good is keep fit?
• Sex, drugs and rock and roll – good fun or a major health hazard?
• Getting to the top of the waiting list
• Road congestion charging – the way of the future?
• Dogs – wolves in the living room or man’s best friend?
• 7 easy ways to simplify your life?
• The five day detox
• The Loch Ness monster really does exist
• Creative thinking
• Has the DaVinci code just been made up?
• Half man – half robot. Should we be scared?
• Political
• Creative thinking
• Vote for me
• Why there should be a United States of Europe
• An easy way to give up smoking
• Why prostitution should be legalized
• How we can get more people to vote?
• Why the death penalty should be abolished in the United States
• Why we should not consume genetically modified crops?
• Should religious clothes be banned in schools?
• The war in Iraq – was it justified?
• Famous lives
• The greatest American./ Briton/ French Person/ Scientist/ Discoverer/ Adventurer of all time
• Scott of the Antarctic – hero or failure?
• Winston Churchill – good man or a famous alcoholic?

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