Informative Speech
CREATING THE INFORMATIVE PRESENTATION ON CULTURE
TIME REQUIREMENT: 4 – 6 MINUTES
For this particular presentation, your topic must be related to CULTURE.
Your textbook defines culture in Chapter 5 as the “shared symbols, language, values, and norms that distinguish one group of people from another.” Do not confuse culture with ethnicity, which refers to ancestry or heritage.
Obviously, different countries have different cultures. However, culture may be local as well.
Think of any organization or group and start asking yourself what makes this group unique and what are their shared values, norms, “lingo” or jargon, and so on.
Your presentation topic could be related to an aspect of culture personal to you or your family, or you can research a culture that interests you and will interest your classmates.
Regardless, your presentation may NOT rely solely on personal experience. Research is required. Given the time limit of 4-6 minutes, you must narrow your topic, which could be social customs, traditions, holidays, food, artifacts, sporting or entertainment activities, and the like.
