A complete set of opening remarks (learn these opening remarks of 10)

Generally speaking, the opening remarks of a successful speech are all made with great efforts. Through careful design and arrangement, it is the key to the success of the speech to be as handsome and beautiful as the crown of the phoenix, and to create a good psychological set for the audience from the beginning.

The wonderful opening remarks have three functions. First, attract the attention of the audience and stimulate their curiosity; Second, summarize the main contents of your speech; Third, explain to the audience the necessity of listening to your speech.

Here are the ten most commonly used opening remarks:

1. Story type

Tell a story closely related to what you said at the beginning to lead to the theme of your speech. This story requires completeness, details and main characters.

For example, when I walked into the university gate, the speech began like this:

Everyone will remember a legend: there is a magical cave in Arabia, which contains 40 gold and silver treasures and pearls and agates stolen by thieves. As long as you master a spell, the cave door will open automatically. One day, a man named Alibaba came across this spell. He opened the door to treasure and became a millionaire.

This prologue is about the well-known Arabic legend "Alibaba and the Forty Thieves", which compares the gate of the university to the gate of wealth, and the effect is good.

Note: The story opening remarks must abandon complicated plots and lengthy language.

2. straightforward type

Cut to the chase, that is, tell your friends the basic purpose and theme of the speech in highly concise language at the beginning, arouse their desire to listen to the following, and then explain and discuss in detail in the main part. This is a straightforward type, also known as a straightforward type.

For example, Engels' famous speech "Speech at Marx's Tomb" is a good example:

14 At 2: 35pm on March, the greatest thinker of our time stopped thinking. He was only left alone in the room for two minutes. When we went in again, we found him quietly asleep in the easy chair, but he had fallen asleep forever. The death of this man is an incalculable loss to the proletariat fighting in Europe and America and to historical science. The gap formed after the death of this giant will be felt in the near future. Engels clearly expressed the theme of his speech here in extremely concise and accurate words: the death of Marx and the great losses it brought to the world proletariat.

Note: Direct opening remarks are suitable for more solemn speech occasions. Therefore, a high degree of generalization ability is needed.

3. humorous

Humorous type is to use humorous or humorous language and examples as the opening remarks. This kind of opening can make the audience concentrate on getting into the role and accepting the speech under the inspiration of the speaker's humor.

1965165438+1October, Ms. anna louise strong, an American, celebrated her 80th birthday in Shanghai, China. Premier Zhou Enlai held a grand birthday party for her in the lobby of Shanghai Exhibition Hall. And delivered a congratulatory message, and he started like this:

Today, we celebrate the 40th birthday of our good friend, American woman writer anna louise strong. In China, the word "gong" is twice as big as its quantifier. 40 kilograms equals 80 kilograms, and 40 years old equals 80 years old.

Premier Zhou Enlai's flexible language and clever explanation aroused the laughter of hundreds of birthday girls, and the birthday girl Ms. Strong shed tears with excitement.

Note: Positive humor is elegant and cannot be expressed in low-level jokes or vulgar language.

4. Reference type

The opening remarks of the speech also directly quoted other people's words (mostly philosophical quotes), which paved the way and set off the theme of the speech in advance and summarized the theme of the speech.

For example, the pursuit of Let Life Shine begins like this:

Benjamin Mays, an American black educator, has an intriguing famous saying: "The tragedy of life is not that you have not achieved your goal, but that you have not achieved your goal.

This is a very good opening statement, which is in line with the theme of the speech.

Note: the discourse itself is meaningful and has strong appeal and persuasiveness. The words to be used should come from celebrities, authoritative people or people familiar to the audience, which are generally called authority effect and relatives effect, so as to attract the attention of the audience.

5. suspense types

Writing an article needs to set a suspense, and the speech is no exception, because it can arouse your audience's great curiosity and quickly enter the "trap" under the guidance of this suspense

There is a joke of this type:

Old man: "Where do people get old?"

Audience A: "Brain."

Audience B: "Thigh."

Audience C: "Belly."

Old man: "I think some people start from the bottom," (the whole audience burst into laughter) "Some leaders don't go deep into reality and sit in the sea of meetings all day. Their butts suffer, and they have to bear the heavy burden of the upper body and rub against the bench. I am tired enough. In this way, isn't the ass old first? "

In the joke, the purpose of the old man's speech is to attack bureaucracy. First of all, he created a suspense for the audience by asking questions, which aroused the enthusiasm of the vast majority of the audience. Then he made an unexpected answer and created a "second suspense", thus controlling the audience's thoughts and emotions. In addition, suspense can also make the audience laugh and think deeply. This is another form of suspense prelude.

Note: you can't set suspense with ordinary and simple questions that the audience are familiar with; In the speech, suspense is set to be solved in time. Otherwise, the audience will have a strong aversion to the speech.

6. Strong type

Use exaggerated techniques or from different angles to render the content or theme of your speech, so as to attract the attention of the audience.

For example, to make a popular science speech to promote the role of radio, you can start like this:

You know, the subtle sound of a fly walking on the glass window of new york can be transmitted to Central Africa by radio, and it can also be amplified into the amazing sound like Niagara Falls. Such an opening remark is unknown to most people, unimaginable and will not be verified by experiments. Propagandizing the special effects of broadcasting is a powerful prologue, which can arouse the audience's great interest.

Note: this kind of opening remarks should not be infinitely exaggerated without scientific basis, so as to avoid the mysterious and shocking negative effects of the speech.

7. Lyric types

This kind of prologue is mainly to help poetry. Prose and other lyric literary forms, through gorgeous rhetoric and surging passion, infect the audience and bring the audience into a poetic realm.

1863165438+10 19, former US Secretary of State edward everett made this speech at the inauguration ceremony of the National Martyrs Cemetery in Gettysburg:

Standing under the clear sky, overlooking the vast fields that have been quietly resting after years of hard work, the majestic Allegheny Mountains are in sight, and the graves of our brothers are at our feet. I really dare not use my insignificant voice to break the infinite peace arranged by God and nature. But I have to finish the task you gave me, so I ask you to give me forgiveness and sympathy.

Everett used a lyric speech, which brought the audience into a beautiful, magnificent, solemn and solemn atmosphere at the beginning of the speech.

Note: Most friends who take part in the speech contest like to use this kind of opening remarks.

8. Small talk type

This kind of prologue is to talk to the audience about some topics unrelated to the theme in a conversational tone, and then gradually guide people to speak. This is a good way to establish a friendly and harmonious relationship with the audience present. This kind of prologue is often used by celebrities and authorities.

For example, Gorky said at the writers' congress of the former Soviet Union:

My friends, I think when Gorky's name is mentioned here, some adjectives such as "great", "tall" and "long" are often added.

Gorky's opening remarks made him approachable and greatly enhanced his feelings with the audience.

Note: this kind of prologue is not suitable for speech contests or youth speeches, because it reflects the different identities of speakers after all.

9. Laugh at yourself

The self-mockery here is mostly a playful and self-deprecating tone. But not too damaging to the image. But to maintain a positive and optimistic mood and a high sense of humor in this kind of opening remarks.

The great physicist Einstein said this at a scientific seminar:

Fate punished me because I despised authority. Made me an authority. This is really a very interesting cycle. (Laughter and applause) As we all know, Aeschylus was a great orator in ancient Greece. On one occasion, he said to his students like this:

My life is so regrettable. I took an "S" shape on the political road, with too many curved parts. Listen, my voice is like a weak wind. However, I still want to turn into a gust of wind to shake your hearts and let you know the importance of rhetoric! (Laughter and applause)

Note: People who can speak in public are often transparent and approachable. Moreover, using this self-deprecating way to "criticize" yourself can easily produce another beneficial effect, which is to make the audience unconsciously feel a sense of superiority and make them feel comfortable but happy, so as to accept your speech. Therefore, this opening method is widely used.

10. Anecdotal types

How to start with an anecdote? It is perfect to tell an anecdote to arouse the audience's interest: a past event, a poem, and a certain experience of a person are all small anecdotes that can quickly attract the audience.

1984 At the Los Angeles Olympic Games, China athletes won 15 gold medals, 8 silver medals and 9 bronze medals. Since then, a man of insight felt that a lot of experience in sports can be applied to other industries, so he delivered a speech entitled "After Seeing the Gold Medal", which began like this:

There is a cross talk that China sent a sports delegation to participate in the Olympic Games in the days when director Li was very popular. This little plum who can only shout "Zha" doesn't know what the national anthem is, so she changed it to "drunken maid-in-waiting". Moreover, I chose the hero who climbed over the eaves to jump high, the little eunuch who sent a message in the palace to take part in the sprint, and found several jugglers in Beijing Tianqiao to compete with foreigners with a basketball in their arms. As a result, I changed my basketball and didn't pass the ball. I only saw the net. Since then, people have only worn vests and underwear when playing basketball. It is because of Li's suffering that this international rule was formulated.

This cross talk once made people laugh, but it also made people laugh, which was a bit similar to what Ah Q said about "the former width".

Learn these ten opening remarks, so that you can open your mouth at any occasion, and they complement each other. When giving a speech, you must choose and synthesize it according to the actual situation, and try to make the speech attractive from the beginning. It is necessary to make it clear that form serves the content, and don't stick to the requirements of form too much to ignore or even damage the content. We should choose and use these forms flexibly to better enhance the effect of the speech.