There are, of course numerous ways to begin your presentation: A clear statement of purpose; a quotation (with full attribution to your source); a question; a description of a scene or event -- that is full of sensory details that appeal to as many of our senses as possible -- or a humorous or other type of anecdote that is closely related or that can be related to your topic.
If for instance you were giving a presentation on the need to carefully examining what we read or are told you could the illustration of a little back bird that you offered a pieces of shredded wheat cereal to one winter morning.
This little guy I saw was obviously hungry and looking for something to eat so I tossed it a few pieces of shredded wheat near it on the ground thinking it would gobble them up.
But it this little bird hopped over to it, picked it up. Turned it over a few times to check it out, then after looking at me as if to say" Common do you humans really eat this stuff?" hopped up disdainfully.
You could relate something like this for us to be just as careful about accepting things we are are told or we read. We need to examine information and ideas offered to us by other carefully before accepting them.
Tying all of this into an introduction for a speech on topic could catch the interest of your audience where dry facts or other methods of introduction would no fare ass well.
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