 1. Confidence
Have a positive sensory orientation towards your speech. You should have confidence. Unfortunately there are no secrets to this; you have to rehearse over and over again until you feel confidence. Do not forget that most people can easily distinguish between the certain speaker and the uncertain one, this is why you should never read your speech directly from a piece of paper. Usually it gives an extremely bad impression.
2. Spice your speech
Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech. You should try to make your performance remembered, make it tasty and try your outmost not to bore people. All students dislike hearing a boring professor speaks, why commit the same mistake? The best way to spice your speech is by adding quotes to it, the more the merrier. Young folks are part of this culture where one uses some keywords over and over again which could make your whole presentation contaminated. Be careful with such words as: "like", "well", "you know" etc. A nice way to counter this is by using alliterations, ie. A sentence where all the initial letters in every word start by the same letter. For instance: Cool! Crusty´s car crushed Carl. Remember, you should be innovative when it comes to speeches.
3. Your posture
Your "body language" could be more important than you think, some people even claim that it might be more important than the speech itself. Be sure you have a firm control over your body and try your out most to diminish the use of unnecessary movements. They might distract the audience and your recital might even be viewed as void.
4. Eye contact
Your eye movements are also important. Avoid starring at someone/thing provocative, you do not want to be angered, annoyed or aroused when speaking.
5. Water
This one concerns the guys a bit more; male gender has this thing, we speak louder and less calm then women. You might even become thirsty or lose your voice in the middle of the presentation, bad idea. If you are equipped with a bottle of water, your problem is fixed, plus you get a few seconds to fetch your thoughts when drinking.
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