Informative Speech Topics
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 ideas.
Many of them can be changed by substituting the blank _____.
General Topics
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Why free speech matters
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The life and times of _____ (e.g. Abraham
Lincoln, Julius Caesar/ Winston Churchill/ Bob Dylan)
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My Pop Idol (Give a speech on John Lennon,
Elvis or someone similar)
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The evolution of _____
(e.g. the railway locomotive headlamp)
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On this day in history
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When will man get to Mars?
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The first Moon Landing
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Top Internet searches
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Socializing Healthcare
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Tourism and marketing
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The Darwin Awards
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Ideas in pictures
The evolution of the internet
Origami in action - Show how you can make
things out of paper (prepare some paper examples for
the audience)
Colour blindness
What is left to discover ?
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
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Winston Churchill
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Lawrence of Arabia
Who says that crime doesn't
pay?
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Julius Caesar
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Charles Dickens
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Longfellow
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John A. MacDonald
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Marie Curie
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Joan of Arc
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Napoleon Bonaparte
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Nelson Mandela
The physics of soccer
Well known films (often a lot of the backup
material can be found on a collectors DVD)
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Casablanca
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Jean de Florette
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Ben Hur
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The wizard of Oz
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Les Choristes
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The Italian Job
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Gone with the Wind
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Forest Gump
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Avatar
The life and times of Julius
Caesar
The first moon landing
History
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The six wives of Henry 8th
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The Spanish civil war
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The rise of Nazism
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Decline and fall of the Roman Empire
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1066 and all that
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Roman military hardware
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The telegraph: the 'internet' of the 19th Century
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Who invented the internet?
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The hidden dangers in the
refrigerator
Nature
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Wolves in the living room - how the wolf
evolved into the domestic dog
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The secret life of an eel
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Is an owl really wise?
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A day in the life of a Beluga Whale
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Why Dolphins jump out of the water
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Cats and lions - how do they compare?
Books
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Harry Potter
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Little Women
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Pride and Prejudice
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Tom Sawyer
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A tale of two cities
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Twilight
Access to clean drinking water
in the third world
The decline in fish stocks
More informative speech topics
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Top 20 tracks for your iPod
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What is inside your tap water ?
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What I would do if I won the lottery
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Easy ways to pass exams
Why dolphins jump out of the
water?