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1. List three things an impromptu introduction tries to accomplish.

2. An introduction usually begins with what?

3. What is a preview? What is it's purpose?

4. What is a thesis statement?

5. What 5 things does an impromptu speaker develop during the few moments of prep time?

6. Speeches without content are boring. What makes speeches interesting?

7. An impromptu speaker tries to accomplish three things. List them.

8. Explain the basic procedure in an impromptu speaking tournament.

9. List four types of topics an impromptu speaker might be given.

10. Using the topic "Winning," outline an impromptu speech on the back of this test.

IMPROMPTU TOPICS--WISE SAYINGS & QUOTATIONS

Wars were never started by those in earnest search of the true bond of friendship.

Friendship is a good knot, not tangled with selfish emotions, but tied properly with genuine concern.

A smooth path might get you there faster, but a rough trail teaches you more.

He who reaches for things beyond his grasp may find more happiness than one who strives only for things within his reach.

A persons is just about as happy as he makes up his mind to be.

Good, better, best. Never let me rest until my better's best.

If you think you'll lose, you've lost.

Frankly my dear, I don't give a damn!

I have not yet begun to fight.

Give me liberty or give me death.

On, beware my lord, of jealousy. It is the green-eyed monster.

Trifles light as air are to the jealous confirmation strong.

She was false as water.

It there's a gateway into Hell, there's a gateway out.

By and by never comes.

Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.

As he rose like a rocket, he fell like a stick.

He who can bear fortune, can also beware of fortune.

You never get a second chance to make a first impression.

If we don't change direction we will arrive at where we are going.

You can not do wrong and feel right.

The world owes you a living only when you have earned it.

Your destiny is in your own hands and your important

decisions are your own to make.

We have committed the Golden Rule to memory; let us now commit it to life.

No snowflake in an avalanche feels responsible.

When everyone thinks alike, noone thinks very much.

If I am not happy with me, other people will suffer.

Let every man sing his own song in life.

When a fellow begins to understand that he doesn't

understand, he is beginning to understand.

Never point a gun at anything you don't intend to shoot.

Success is never final.

The past is to learn from and not to live in.

Do you want to repent or rationalize?

He who stops being better stops being good.

The truth never hurts unless it ought to.

The young, whether or not they know it, live on borrowed

property.

People who say the show must go on have never seen the show.

Everyone can deal with perfect people, but our goal should be to work with imperfect people.

Experience is a hard teacher; she gives the test first and the lesson afterwards.

A true friend is as a flower in the desert.

People can't change the truth, but truth can change the people.

If anything can go wrong, it will.

A stitch in time saves nine.

A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.

Happiness is not getting everything you like, but liking

everything you get.

As a man thinketh, so is he.

On every road to success, there is always a McDonalds.

Things that are easy are seldom worthwhile.

To have a friend you must first be a friend.

Make hay while the sun shines.

He who laughs last laughs best.

Experience is not what happens to you, but what you do

with what happens to you.

When life gives you lemons, make lemonade.

If at first you don't succeed, try, try again.

Time is a circus, always packing up and moving on.

When people are free to do as they please, they usually

imitate each other.

If you wish to reach the highest, begin at the lowest.

I was born an American; I live an American; I shall die an

American.

When angry, count four; when very angry, swear.

Never trouble trouble till trouble troubles you.

Apathy is a sort of living oblivion.

You are only what you are when no one is looking.

A jury is a group of twelve people of average ignorance.

The reason the way of the transgressor is hard is because it's so crowded.

Blood will tell, but often it tells too much.

Man is the only animal that blushes--or needs to.

Who bravely dares must sometimes risk a fall.

Who escapes a duty, avoids a gain.

Many a man never fails because he never tries.

Complete equality means universal irresponsibility.

The only real equality is in the cemetery.

A burnt child dreads the fire.

He's no failure; he's not dead yet.

Believe half of what you see and none of what you hear.

I would rather start a family than finish one.

The only thing we need fear is fear itself.

Force is not a remedy.

Never trust a smiling cat.

A hungry man is not a free man.

Sometimes the best gain is to lose.

One should eat to live, not live to eat.

When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.

Acorns were good until bread was found.

We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.

God heals and doctors take the fee.

Money often costs too much.

Youth comes but once in a lifetime.

Cleverness is not wisdom.

Communism means barbarism.

There's a sucker born every minute.

Society prepares the crime, the criminal commits it.

Set a thief to catch a thief.

Even the lion has to defend himself from the flies.

As soon as there is life there is danger.

He who hesitates is lost.

Honesty is the best policy.

The third time is the charm.

Love is blind.

An apple a day keeps the doctor away.

Pretty is as pretty does.

When in doubt, tell the truth.

Turn the other cheek.

Beauty is only skin deep.

Don't count your chickens before they hatch.

You can't have your cake and eat it too.

Look before you leap.

Good fences make good neighbors.

The grass is always greener on the other side.

Early to bed, early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.

Blood is thicker than water.

All's fair in love and war.

The course of true love never runs smooth.

Don't look a gift horse in the mouth.

It's not enough to aim, but to hit.

A good soldier is not warlike.

The dictionary is the only place where you can find success before work.

Today is the early memory of tomorrow.

To borrow is to give up your freedom.

If you aim to hit the stars, you'll hit the mountain tops; if you aim for the mountain tops, you'll hit the roof tops; if you aim for the roof tops, you'll never get off the ground.

A friend in need is a friend indeed.

Success is not found in never failing, but in rising every time you fail.

Happiness consists of three things; work to do, a clean

conscience, and someone to love.

He who says little in his actions says much.

Murphy was an optimist.

Life is just a bowl of cherries.

If life is just a bowl of cherries, how come I'm in the pits?

If at first you don't succeed, you're fired.

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