List of School Speech Topics

General

1. The life and times of _____ (e.g. Abraham Lincoln, Julius Caesar/ Winston Churchill/ Bob Dylan)
2. My Pop Idol (Give a speech on John Lennon, Elvis or someone similar)
3. The evolution of _____ (e.g. the railway locomotive headlamp)
4. On this day in history
5. When will man get to Mars?
6. The first Moon Landing
7. Top Internet searches
8. The Darwin
Awards
9. Origami in action - Show how you can make things out of paper (prepare some paper examples for the audience)
10. Colour blindness
11. 25 uses for a _____ (paperclip/ tennis ball/ bus ticket)
12. Who says that crime doesn't pay?
13. My dream holiday (e.g. Walking a donkey in Ireland)
14. Does wearing the Hijab (the scarf worn over the head) give a muslim women more freedom?
15. Why the Titanic sank?
16. Just how long do we expect to live?
17. How much do we need to save for a comfortable life?
18. Formula one
19. Healthy Eating
20. 5 easy to grow vegetables
21. How to make a perfect soufle
22. How to have your cake and eat it
23. What I'd do if I won the lottery
24. Anglicized spanish words
25. 21 things to do with your
26. internet connection
27. The race for the White House
28. How cheap will PCs become?

# History The six wives of Henry 8th
# The spanish civil war
# The rise of Nazism
# Decline and fall of the Roman Empire
# 1066 and all that
# The Gettysburg address
# Roman military hardware
# The telegraph: the 'internet' of the 19th Century
# Who invented the internet? Nature

1. Wolves in the living room - how the wolf evolved into of the domestic dog
2. The secret life of an eel
3. Is an owl really wise?
4. A day in the life of a Beluga Whale
5. Why Dolphins jump out of the water
6. Cats and lions - how do they compare?

Books

1. All quiet on the western front
2. Little Women
3. Pride and Prejudice
4. Tom Sawyer
5. A tale of two cities

Business

1. Why businesses fail
2. Test marketing your idea
3. 10 easy marketing ideas
4. Time management for dummies
5. Emotional Intelligence
6. The One Minute Manager
7. Equal Opportunities