Potential Speech Topics

Many Toastmasters find it difficult to come up with ideas for their next speech. Help them out by submitting an idea or general topic for a speech.

Travel

• Trips you've taken

• How to Plan a Trip

• Most memorable trip

• Least memorable trip

• Taking a Cruise

• How to Get a Passport

• Travel Bargains

• The internet and travel

• Traveling by train in Europe

Children

College

• Your Alma Mater

• Why go to college

• How to get a scholarship

• History of a college (Harvard, MIT, Johns Hopkins, West Point, etc)

Books

• How to get published

• Favorite books you've read

• History of books

Hobbies

• Why collect

• Famous collection

• Weird hobbies

Movies

• History of movies in other countries

• Favorite movies

• Favorite actors - biography - what they did before being famous

Family

Pets

Music

• Origins of types of music

• Opera (plots)

• Biographies of musicians

Your Hometown

• History

• Why live there

• Best places to live

Your Favorite City

• Why visit

• Why live there

• History

How to Save Buying Insurance

Explain Your Job

How to Evade Taxes (just kidding)

TV Shows

Using a Computer

Why buy an iPod (advantages, disadvaantagee)

History

• Presidents

• Countries

• Famous Events

• Famous Landmarks

• Important event

• Events that change history

Biographies

• Thomas Edison

• Gandhi

• Millard Fillmore

How a Company got started

• Sears

• Papa

• Johns

• Dell

• IBM

• Dr. Pepper

• Apple

Serious Topics

• Theory of Relativity

• History of Religion in Western Europe

• Why did the Berlin Wall come down?

• World's Greatest Invention?

• Words  

Not So Serious Topics

• Theory of Relatives

• The Joy of Sox

• Which came first: the Chicken or the Omelet?  

email me an idea: Frank