Magic of Impromptu Speaking: Create a Speech That Will Be Remembered for Years in Under 30 Seconds (Magic of Public Speaking)

by Andrii Sedniev

Exercise 2: Nouns from the bag In this exercise, participants write nouns on a slip of paper. Proper nouns are acceptable. In fact, the stranger the nouns, the more interesting this game will be. After all the papers have been collected in a bag, one participant begins telling a story. After a storyline is established, the moderator picks a paper from the bag and a speaker includes this word in a story. For example, “Yesterday I went to a restaurant with my wife. It was our wedding anniversary and I wanted to make this afternoon special for us.” At this point the moderator picks the word “penguin” from the bag and a speaker continues the story. “The restaurant is called ‘Antarctica’ and they had a special dish of the day made from the meat of penguin. So I ordered it for both of us. I asked, ‘Honey, do you remember how we met 10 years