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Informative Speech Outline

Name: [Click here and type your name; ALT & F1 to continue]

Date: March 14, 2006

Topic reviewed: _____

Topic: Wrestling

Purpose: To inform.

Specific purpose: To inform the audience about wrestling and its history.

Central idea: Discuss modern wrestling and the history of wrestling.

Introduction:

I. Attention: Good Morning!

II. Reveal topic: What do you know about wrestling? Do you watch wrestling? Have you ever wrestled?

III. Credibility: I wrestled two years in high school and I am the assistant coach at Mad River Middle School.

IV. Preview: [Click here and type your preview statement]

Body:

I. Modern Wrestling

A. Popular wrestling today involves actor who have and extensive athletic background.

B. Roman-Greco and Freestyle wrestling, both sometimes called "Olympic" Wrestling Have been the same sports for hundreds of years.

(transition) Fighting in general has been around since civilization.

II. History of wrestling

A. Wrestling in ancient Greece involved two naked oiled men who were covered with a dust that made them easier to grip.

B. The rules have for the most part been the same for the past millinia.

Conclusion:

I. Summary: [Click here and type your speech summary]

II. Closing: [Click here and type your closing punchline]

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