What is BBC?

Are you thinking about the above picture when you see "BBC"? 

In public speaking, we use BBC to indicate Beginning, Body and Conclusion. 

Beginning: in the opening session, it is necessary to point out your topic and you have to attract the audiences' attention. The following tips will help you to start a wonderful beginning.

• ‍raise a thought-provoking question

• make an interesting or controversial statement

• recite a relevant quotation

• recount a joke

Please remember,all no matter what method you use to start your speech, it should relate to your topic. 

Body: in the body session, it's better for you to set out three supporting points or aspects and use enough materials to prove or argue the supporting ideas.

‍The points should be organized so that related points follow one another so that each point builds upon the previous one. This will also give your speech a more logical progression, and make the job of the listener a far easier one.

【Vina's Tip 1: Mindmap】

"Mindmap" is something we usually used to generate our ideas. You might go to the website mindmapping.com for the details.

In brief, the mind map is something like the following pic. U have one key word and several related aspects.

Of course, you can make your mindmap really huge, just like this one. Mindmap can help you well organize your ideas. It is really a good way to enable you to arrange points in a really logical way.

Conclusion: in the ending session, like the openning, it is important for you to restate your topic. You can view this as an opportunity to:

• ‍summarize the main points of your speech

• provide some further food for thought for your listeners

• leave your audience with positive memories of your speech

• end with a final thought/emotion

Narrative Structures

Usually you might find these structures will help you to illustrate your topic.

Melodrama Structure

This is the structure we often used in movie or drama. We meet the character and see their circumstances. Then a tragedy occurs, and finally tell how your character overcomes and triumphs over the tragedy. This speech structure creates a journey that will emotionally engage your audience and build credibility.

The Tower Structure

This structure is all about using different layers of information that garners the audience’s attention by supporting your key message. When you (and your audience) finish building the structure together you can look at the power of the structure you’ve created.

Mystery Structure

Structure your speech around asking a question or presenting a problem to the audience that they are desperate to know. Keep them on the edge of their seats by their desire to hear your crucial message.

Ping Pong Structure

The last fun way to structure a speech is to present both sides of the argument in such a way that the audience wants to find out “Who wins?”.