Informative Speaking · Beginner

Now that you know what a round looks like, you need something worth ten minutes of a stranger's attention. This unit teaches the obscure-but-relevant test and how to vet a topic before committing months to it.

With a topic chosen, you need research deep enough to teach with authority. This unit builds on the topic-selection filters by teaching how to research beyond surface-level sources and cite verbally with credibility.

With deep research organized into three balanced buckets, you're ready to build the skeleton of the speech itself. This unit teaches the standard Info structure: AGD, link, thesis, preview, three areas, and conclusion.

You now have a full structural skeleton; this unit focuses on the sentence-level craft that turns research into genuinely teachable language, using analogy, chunking, and plain wording.

Building on the basic aid rules from Unit 1, this unit dives into actually designing an effective aid, deciding when to reveal it, and avoiding the most common rule violations judges penalize.

You now know how to design and reveal an aid; this unit teaches blocking — the deliberate movement patterns that integrate the aid with the speaker's physical presence across the whole speech.

With structure, language, and blocking in place, this unit refines how you actually perform the speech — vocal energy, appropriate humor, vocal variety, and pacing tuned for audience comprehension.

This unit sharpens the two moments that make a speech memorable — the significance section and the callback ending — and teaches the practical skill of cutting a script to fit the time limit precisely.

With a fully structured, polished, and appropriately-timed speech, this final unit prepares you for the logistics and pressure of actual competition — aid transport, rehearsal scheduling, judge adaptation, and finals rounds.