Informative Speech Topic ideas
Quite often you are asked to give a speech or a presentation. The problem is what topic to choose for your speech.
Here are a few example titles.
Many of them can be changed by substituting the blank _____.
General Topics
- Why free speech matters
- The life and times of _____ (e.g. Abraham Lincoln, Julius Caesar/ Winston Churchill/ Bob Dylan)
- My Pop Idol (Give a speech on John Lennon, Elvis or someone similar)
- The evolution of _____
(e.g. the railway locomotive headlamp)
- On this day in history
- When will man get to Mars?
- The first Moon Landing
- Top Internet searches
- Socializing Healthcare
- Tourism and marketing
- The Darwin Awards
- Origami in action – Show how you can make things out of paper (prepare some paper examples for the audience)
- Colour blindness
- 25 uses for a _____
(paperclip/ tennis ball/ bus ticket)
- Who says that crime doesn’t pay?
- My dream holiday
(e.g. Walking a donkey in Ireland)
Famous lives
- Winston Churchill
- Scott of the Antarctic
- Lawrence of Arabia
- Julius Caesar
- Charles Dickens
- Longfellow
- Ronald Regan
- Marie Curie
- Joan of Arc
- General McArthur
- Nelson Mandela
Well known films (often a lot of the backup material can be found on a collectors DVD)
- Casablanca
- Jean de Florette
- Ben Hur
- The wizard of Oz
- Spartacus
- The Italian Job
- Gone with the Wind
- Forest Gump
- One flew over the cuckoos nest
History
- The six wives of Henry 8th
- The spanish civil war
- The rise of Nazism
- Decline and fall of the Roman Empire
- 1066 and all that
- The Gettysburg address
- Roman military hardware
- The telegraph: the ‘internet’ of the 19th Century
- Who invented the internet?
Nature
- Wolves in the living room – how the wolf evolved into of the domestic dog
- The secret life of an eel
- Is an owl really wise?
- A day in the life of a Beluga Whale
- Why Dolphins jump out of the water
- Cats and lions – how do they compare?
Books
- All quiet on the western front
- Little Women
- Pride and Prejudice
- Tom Sawyer
- A tale of two cities
More informative speech topics
- Top 20 tracks for your iPod
- What is inside your tap water ?
- What I would do if I won the lottery
- Easy ways to pass exams
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The evolution of the internet
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What is left to discover ?
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Who says that crime doesn’t pay?
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The physics of soccer
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The life and times of Julius Caesar
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The first moon landing
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The hidden dangers in the refrigerator
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Access to clean drinking water in the third world
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The decline in fish stocks
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Why dolphins jump out of the water?
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