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3 Speech

A speech is written to express one’s views before the public.

The format of a speech is given.

y Salutation or greeting—Respected Principal, Teachers and My Dear Friends
y Express your views about the topic

y Highlight the advantages or disadvantages based on facts, presentation of data,
relevant examples, etc.
y Draw conclusion in an innovative and imaginative way with suggestions/message/advice

y Thank the audience for their support

Now, write a speech on the given topics. Your speech should not exceed 350 words.

1. Changing role of women in the twentieth century
2. Adopting animals from the street is better than buying them from pet shops
3. Stricter laws are required for protecting endangered species

Read the speech on the topic ‘Failure is the stepping-stone to success’.

Failure is the stepping-stone to success

There is absolutely no person in this world who is not acquainted with some amount
of failure. Yet it is a word much feared by one and all. Often, in our lives, we come to a
point where we see ourselves completely broken, disappointed and embarrassed by our
own mistakes and follies. There comes a time when we are at a total loss and don’t know
what to do. Many a time, we are forced to face a situation when we are on the brink of
going to pieces.

But what does it mean? What is failure? Is it the end of life or at least the situation we
find ourselves in? Does failure spell an abject end for us, for life or is it a phase in the
situation we are faced with? When we find ourselves in difficult situations, we believe
that that instance of failure is the end of that situation and that of our lives. But an
instance of failure is only a missed chance. When such a thing happens, it is merely an
indication that you must once more check what you are doing and how you are doing it.

A good example would be a shot fired and a target missed from your archer’s bow.
Were that to happen, we would simply check our bow, our position, steady our hand and
once again concentrate on our target. There we are correct—we are dealing with failure
as an indication of what we can do better and how. And, that is exactly why we call
failure a stepping-stone to success.

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