Speech Writing Format

Examples, Samples, Topics

LIBRARY WEEK

Respected Principal,-Vice-Principal, teachers and friends!

It gives me great pleasure to speak to you about the Library Week that our school
has organised from 2nd to 9th September this year. This week is slightly different
from the others. Here we have to shift the focus to mental attainment. The aim of
celebrating this week is to inculcate reading habits among students. Reading, you
know makes a man perfect. So new arrivals in the reference section such as
encyclopaedia and dictionaries as well as general books will be displayed. National
Book Trust and Oxford University Press are putting up an exhibition. We have
invited Dr Kailash Vajpayee to inaugurate the exhibition. He will autograph the
books and interact with students. Other authors like Khushwant Singh and Ruskin
Bond will also pay us a visit. During the week, a quiz competition will be
organised. The Reading section will have more new magazines of teenagers’
interest.
I appeal to all of you to spend as much free time in the library as you can.
Thank you.

Question 2:
You are Ankit/Ankita. You have to deliver a speech on the topic “Education Gives
One Power”. You have jotted down the following notes:
Education trains mind—sharpens skill and abilities—Education: a source of
power— improve self—be independent—earn money—ignorance to knowledge—
removes superstition—develops a free spirit—important for women: gives them
freedom from social ills—independent—responsible.
Write your speech in 150-200 words.
Answer:

EDUCATION GIVES POWER

Respected Principal, teachers and friends!

Education provides us knowledge. It trains our mind and sharpens our skills and
abilities. Education refines our tastes and temperaments and builds our thought
process. Vocational courses help young boys to earn and learn together. They
provide means of earning livelihood and open the route to employment.
Professional courses, as is evident from the name itself, equip us for adopting
various professions. Some of these highly skilled professionals seek placements or
jobs in esteemed companies and business concerns. Thus education is important
for our survival. Decent living is impossible
without good income or high salary. Education improves the quality of our life and
frees us of superstition, foolish, meaningless mind-blocks and rituals. If women are
educated the whole family benefits qs the food is hygienically prepared, children
are healthy, well-mannered and disciplined. Education gives us power over our
environment. We can control the situation and shape our destiny. Education
spreads awareness among people and gives them freedom from social ills. It makes
people independent by providing them means to learn their living. They become
responsible citizens and realise their rights and duties. In short, education gives one
power.
Thank you.

Question 3:
You are Priya/Piyush. You are a member of the Environment Club of your school.
After visiting many places you have realized that it is the need of the hour to
protect environment. You decide to create awareness among the students. Write a
speech in 150-200 words on ‘Environmental protection’ to be delivered in the
morning assembly.
Answer:

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION

Respected Principal, teachers and friends!

Global warming has accelerated the rise of temperature on earth. The sea level is
also rising and glaciers’ are melting away. Natural calamities are taking a toll of
life on earth. Floods and scanty rainfall result in a crunch of food products,
drinking water and disturb normal living conditions. The drought in Rajasthan has
led to deaths and famine. Man is himself to blame for the deterioration of
ecosystem. Depleting forests, industrial pollution, toxic-wastes, vehicular
pollution, cutting of trees in cities, and lack of green cover are some of the
contributory factors. The entire process of environmental pollution is becoming a
vicious cycle. The urgent need of the hour is to protect environment. School
children have begun to create awareness by compaigning against polythene bags
and recycling waste material. Let us join hands to protect our forests, grow more
trees, check toxic pollutants and change our lifestyle.
Thank you.
Question 4:
You are Anshu/Anita. You have secured 95 per cent marks in English. Your
English teacher has persuaded you to share the secret of your success with your
schoolmates. You decide to deliver a speech ‘English is an extremely scoring
subject’ in the morning assembly. Write the speech in about 150-200 words.
Answer:

ENGLISH: EXTREMELY SCORING SUBJECT

Respected Principal, teachers and friends!

English is an extremely scoring, provided one follows a few rules, such as a good
reading habit and the ability to be brief and specific in one’s answers. As far as the
lessons in the CBSE textbooks are concerned, a thorough reading is essential.
Questions asked from these lessons can be from any part of the chapter/story and
could be about any minute detail. Remember the complete name of main characters
and the author’s name. Your answer has to be in the same tense as the question.
Secondly, the answer should be relevant and to the point. In order to get high
marks in the comprehension passages and writing tasks, a student must have good
communication skills as well as good reading habit. In article/report writing,
questions on current affairs are often asked. Reading comes in very handy while
writing such compositions. A report should always be written in the passive voice.
In note-making, do not give more than five points. Give sub-points for each main
point in a logical sequence. On the basis of the points,
write a summary and give a title. In letter writing, be brief and accurate. Adopt the
block format. Try to be creative while writing advertisements. The
phrases/language should be catchy. These are*some points that may stand you in
good stead.
Thank you.

Question 5:
Manish has to speak in debate supporting the motion that life in the country (a
village) is preferable to life in the city. Below you can see his notes. Use the
information to develop Manish’s speech in 150-200 words.
COUNTRY (A VILLAGE) peace and quiet—soothing air—fresh and pure green
fields all around—lovely sight helpful neighbours
CITY
vehicles—smoke
industries—smoke-pollution
crowded streets
people hurry—never relax
Answer:

LIFE IN A COUNTRYSIDE PREFERABLE TO LIFE IN A CITY

Respected Chairperson, Members of faculty and dear Friends!

I stand before you to support the motion that life in the country side is preferable to
life in the city. At the outset I will like to remind the audience about the numerous
advantages that the villages offer. In fact life in the country has so many
advantages over life in the city that I don’t think any one present would disagree
with me. The atmosphere is peaceful and quiet and has a soothing effect. The air is
fresh and pure. Green fields which can be seen all around are a lovely sight. In the
country people are friendly and the neighbours are helpful. On the other hand,
cities are full of vehicles giving out smoke and creating atmospheric pollution.
There is also air pollution from the chimneys of industries spewing off smoke.
Moreover, the streets in the city are always crowded with people. Everyone is in a
hurry and never finds time to relax. Village life is tension free. There is no undue
hurry and excitement. The villagers may be poor in terms of income but they live a
far happier life than the city dwellers. Hence I conclude that life in the countryside
is preferable to life in the city.
Thank you.

Question 6:
Arun Kumar is a resident of Kalkaji. He is an active member of citizens’ forum. He
is shocked to read the news that the Government has decided to increase the prices,
of petroleum products with immediate effect. He wants to enlighten fellow citizens
about the impact of Government decision on common man. Draft Arun’s speech in
about 150-200 words highlighting the impact of the hike in prices of petroleum
products on the life of common man.
Answer:

IMPACT OF RISE IN PRICES OF PETROLEUM PRODUCTS

Respected Chairman and dear friends!

The decision of the Central Government to hike the prices of Petroleum products
has shocked all the consumers. The salaried classes and the middle-income group
are the worst affected. As a common man, I resent this harsh decision of the
government. The increase is not only sudden but steep also.
The common man is already reeling under the spiralling prices. The recent hike in
the cost of petroleum products will push the expenditure graph up by 30 to 40 per
cent. The increase in the prices of diesel and petrol will not only increase the
expenditure on one’s own vehicle, but also increase the freight of goods and their
initial cost will. The essential commodities will get dearer. Fares of buses, autos
and taxis will have an upward swing. Shopkeepers will enhance the prices of even
those articles which are produce locally. This sympathetic rise in prices of
commodities will make it difficult to five within a fixed income. This escalation
will mean cutting down the necessary expenditure by curbing some needs of the
family.
I urge the Finance Minister to reconsider the decision which is bound to hit hard
millions of working classes and salaried people besides, creating a vicious circle of
spiralling prices. It is earnestly hoped that my views will merit some consideration
at the hands of the authorities.
Thank you.

THE GENERATION GAP IS DESTROYING FAMILY LIFE

Respected chairman, honourable judges, members of the staff and my dear Mends!
I stand before you to speak my mind on “The Generation Gap is destroying family
life’. There are many points to support this contention.
The generation gap has caused à chasm between the old and the young. There is a
clash of ideas and ideals, tastes, way of thinking and life-style. The young hanker
after luxury, comfort and material happiness. They believe in full enjoyment and
complete freedom. The elders insist on moral and spiritual values. They advocate
renunciation and control on desires. The children think that their parents are slave
to customs. The generation gap is evident in behaviour and manners of the two
classes. The elders believe in strict obedience to a superior authority. They want
that children must respect their elders and learn to be polite. The children pine for
freedom. They resent all sorts of curbs. They demand freedom of expression. They
want to have a say in family affairs. They insist that their views must be given
proper consideration. This leads to bickerings, heart-burning and tension in the
family.
The elders insist on discipline and strict compliance of their orders. They advocate
smiling acceptance of punishment meted out for breach of discipline. The young
insist on unrestrained freedom and frankness. They advocate freedom of self-
expression and are unwilling to tolerate any interference in their personal affairs—
career, love-affair or marriage. Thus there is a wide gap between the two
generations. This difference in their way of thinking and behaviour is destroying
family life.
Hence, I conclude that ‘The generation gap is destroying family life’.
Thank you.

Question 13:
Swati attended a seminar where speakers narrated their experiences of adverse
impact on modern gadgets on our daily life. She has also experienced how these
gadgets fail when needed most she decides to enlighten her school mates on this
helpless state by delivering a speech in the morning assembly on the topic ‘Modern
gadgets have made us slaves to machines’. Write her speech in 150-200 words.
Answer:

MODERN GADGETS HAVE MADE US SLAVE TO MACHINES

Respected chairperson, honourable judges, members of the staff and my dear

Mends! Today I stand before you stoutly and wholeheartedly to speak on ‘Modem
gadgets have made us slave to machines’. We have become so dependent upon
machines for everything that out life would come to a stand still without them.
Science and technology have transformed the life style of modem man. In fact the
modem civilization has become highly mechanised. Right from the time we get up
to the time we go to bed we depend on one or the other modem scientific gadget.
He uses fridge to store food and keep it cool. Fans, room coolers and air
conditioners keep him cool. Telephone increases the range of his voice whereas car
multiplies the speed of his legs and now he can fly even like a bird. In his office
too he dictates letters on dictaphone, which his secretary types on a typewriter,
another device of modem science. Now he can store information in a computer.
Mobile phones, television and cable network have become quite common. Most of
these gadgets are based on electricity.
Now think of a day when electricity fails. All the activities of the morning are
shelved or delayed. There is no hot water for shaving or bathing. No tea or
sandwich for
breakfast. No computer, television or airconditioner can work without electricity.
We feel miserable because we have become so used to them.
The modem gadgets have helped the world to leap forward to a glittering
civilization. They have provided tremendous power and unlimited knowledge to
man. In fact the modem gadgets have revolutionised every phase of man’s life.
Man has become so dependent upon them that it is impossible to conceive of
modem man’s life without these gadgets. Hence, we can safely conclude that
modem gadgets have made us slaves to machines.
Thank you.
 SHELTER TO HOMELESS

Respected Principal, teachers and dear friends!

I invite your attention to a social cause. Every year thousands of homeless people
die of extreme cold. It is the responsibility of the state and the citizens to provide
facilities to houseless persons to sleep indoors during chilly weather.
Since creating new shelters is both time-consuming and costly, we must find
enough shelters for homeless people in all our cities from the existing stock of
buildings. A large number of spacious buildings at prime locations are vacated
every night. These are schools, colleges, offices and places of worship that lie
empty every night. There is no reason why these buildings can’t be additionally
redeployed with small modifications as night shelters for. the homeless.
You may ask why school and college premises should be deployed additionally as
shelters at night. It is not just that most school and college teaching spaces are
vacant during night and the same space can be used by dispossessed people who do
not have a place to sleep, without any-extra cost. Far more important is the fact,
that this step would provide these educational institutions an opportunity to fulfil
their social commitments as responsible social institutions and teach children and
young people first-hand social empathy and social responsibility.
I do hope that the authorities of our school would realize the plight of these
homeless persons and open the doors of our schools to them at night. It will show
fight to the entire country.
Thank you.

Question 20:
National Literacy Day is being observed in a school. Prateek, a student of XI-A is
requested to deliver a speech. He finds the following graph showing the
educational attainments of small over the last twenty five years. Study the graph
carefully :
Using this information, together with your own ideas, draft a speech for the
National Literacy Day, stressing the importance of education and making some
practical suggestion. Write your speech in not more than 200 words.
Answer:

NATIONAL LITERACY DAY

Respected teachers and dear friends!

The population of our country is increasing at a tremendous speed and along with
it the number of illiterates, especially in the rural areas, is shooting up. This
tendency is a cause of concern for all the enlightened citizens who are busy in
developmental activities or welfare programmes.
Knowledge or education makes a person civilized, cultured and self-dependent.
Education is a medium to transmit knowledge from one person to another over
time and space. Today the world is on the threshold of a revolution. National
boundaries are breaking up and the nations of the world are coming closer. The
world is becoming well-knit. The rich and developed countries are making rapid
advances due to their advanced science and technology. The poor and undeveloped
countries are lagging behind in this race of progress simply because their people
are illiterates and uneducated. In order to convey one’s thoughts and feelings and
to understand others, education is essential. Literacy is the first step in this
direction.
Poverty and lack of opportunity have hindered majority of poor persons from
attaining formal education. The percentage of illiterates is far higher than that of
matriculates or graduates. Concerted efforts have been made during the last
twenty-five years to take the lamp of knowledge to every nook and comer under
the National Literacy mission. School teachers, students, social workers and
voluntary agencies have come forward to lend a helping hand in this noble
mission. The Government of India has
launched Adult Education Programmes. With the constant efforts of dedicated
workers the pace of literacy has picked up. Students have adoped the slogan ‘Each
one, teach one’ in its real meaning. “

Question 21:
The cartoon below makes fun of the government’s recent step of raising the prices
of petroleum products. Using ideas from this cartoon together with your own ideas,
write a short speech on ‘Hike in Prices of Petroleum Products’ to be delivered at
the morning assembly. You are Hemant/Himani. (Word limit: 200)

Answer:

HIKE IN PRICES OF PETROLEUM PRODUCTS

Respected Chairperson and dear friends!
The cartoon given above reveals the cartoonist’s sense of humour at the recent hike
in the prices of petroleum products. These prices are a gift of the new government
to the already over-burdened common man. Though the price-rise varies from ₹ 2
per litre in case of petrol to ₹ 1.50 per litre of diesel, the consumers are adversely
affected both directly as well as indirectly. The rise in the prices of diesel will lead
to a hike in the bus fares and freight of goods. Everyday consumable articles will
become costlier. The hike in LPG prices is enough to raise the ire of the harassed
housewife who doesn’t know how to balance her meagre budget against this
onslaught.
In fact, the effects of price-hike will percolate to all sections of society—
commuters, transporters, farmers, traders, consumers, etc. Increase in cost of tariff
will make goods dearer and people will face the shortage of essential items or they
will have to shell out more. This will indirectly boost hoarding and black-
marketing. Corruption and black money will increase and the means of the
common man will shrink.
The government must reconsider this hike and roll back the increase on LPG and
diesel. No one will protest if more tax is levied on luxury items such as big cars, air
conditioners, super computers, air-travel, etc. Frequent rise in prices is not good
governance.
Thank you.