Impromptu Speech Topics

 

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Two Minutes and you're up!  No time for elaborate preparations!  No walking up and down the practice room rehearsing your verbs!  With Impromptu deliveries, you need to master the art of coming up with informative and interesting content, on the spot... and the list of impromptu speech topics on this page, with help with just that.

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Many years ago, as a young and inexperienced public speaker, I won entry to the finals of a national speaking competition and had to travel to compete against the country's best.  The speakers were all obviously very good, but what put the winners apart from the rest, was their ability to deliver great impromptu speeches.

Writing on Impromptu Speech Topics

With impromptu speech giving, things usually go one of two ways:

(1) You have to come up with a speech on a topic provided for you.

(2) You choose you own topic and then proceed to give a speech on it.

Number 2 (where you choose a topic) is easier since it allows you to do more preparation.  In this case, you can choose one of these topics below and work out a pre-established speech or ideas that you memorize, and can later call upon whenever you're asked to give impromptu talks.

Have a look at the How To Write A Speech section of the site for tips and techniques on creating great content that'll work even with impromptu speech topics.


List of Impromptu Speech Topics

Here's a list of 100 Impromptu Speech Topics that should serve well to give talks about, wether off the top of your head, or with some preparation beforehand.

Number one is certainly the harder of the two, and the only way to really get better at this kind of impromptu speech writing, is to practice and rehearse by choosing some of the topics below, giving yourself a short time frame for preparation (5 minutes or less), and then proceeding with a speech... ask a friend to judge and give tips for improvement.