1. What advantages has the fluent speaker over the hesitating talker?

 

2. What influences, within and without the man himself, work against fluency?

 

3. Select from the daily paper some topic for an address and make a three-minute

address on it. Do your words come freely and your sentences flow out

rhythmically? Practise _on the same topic_ until they do.

 

4. Select some subject with which you are familiar and test your fluency by

speaking extemporaneously.

 

5. Take one of the sentiments given below and, following the advice given on

pages 118-119, construct a short speech beginning with the last word in the

sentence.

 

Machinery has created a new economic world.

 

The Socialist Party is a strenuous worker for peace.

 

He was a crushed and broken man when he left prison.

 

War must ultimately give way to world-wide arbitration.

 

The labor unions demand a more equal distribution of the wealth that labor

creates.