How to memorise an oral?

[hdxx]

How to memorise an oral?

[Bri MT]

 - make sure you're ready for if you don't perfectly memorise the whole thing (what's your plan for if you forget what you're saying during your speech? )

This is just one idea of how to approach it, there are also other methods and the best one will depend on you and your speech
 - split your speech into components/ideas
 - practice memorising each of the ideas
 - find mental links between each of the ideas
 - practice the whole speech

Good luck!

[24lover]

I memorised my oral over a few days - the best tip is to break it up into sections by memorising one paragraph (or even a few sentences if that's as much as you can get through!) per day. Then slowly build it up each day until the whole oral is memorised!

There's no point just reading through the whole essay 100 times hoping that you'll somehow have it stuck in your head

Good luck!

[dashnog]

Ah, yes! The most devastating struggle putting together a speech. The way I handle orals is that I first read through the entire script word for word a couple of times, taking a little break to consolidate, then returning to try a new method.
Upon second stage, I try to read ahead of the script whilst still talking at the correct line; skimreading and taking out the key points to jog my memory. You will stammer and stumble a lot, that’s fine. It’s all part of consolidation.
Continue to do this until you can basically physically act out performing your speech to the audience, only darting your eyes briefly to your script yet still speaking and gesticulating fluently.
Once you are doing fantastic at that, you can do one of two things, although the first requires a lot of skill and natural talent to orate. You can continue to do this until everything sticks in your head and you don’t even require a script. This is extremely rare to do, but I have met people and even given a speech without using a script or cue card once. Leading on from cue cards, the second and most common way in the third stage is to -you guessed it- use cue cards. Write down very briefly the key points of the script, and carry them through to the speech. Get comfortable using the new medium until you can effectively get through 90-95% of your speech without veering far off topic or stumbling over a lack of preparation.

That should be enough to deliver an enjoyable speech fit for a good mark.