First, practice your speech on your own. Consider practicing your speech for friends or family members. After that you must present the speech to your teachers or class. Keep the following instructions in mind when preparing for the speech: Be aware of the time limit of the presentation.
Know and understand the material that is being delivered.
Plan the delivery of every point in the speech.
Create notecards to help you remember the important information.
Also, consider the following practices when delivering a speech:

Speak naturally, clearly, and loudly enough that everyone can hear you.
Make eye contact with various people in the audience.
Use hand gestures when you need to emphasize a point.
Vary your tone and volume for emphasis.
Stand straight but comfortably.
Dress in a neat and presentable manner.
Before delivering your speech to your chosen audience, practice delivering the speech in front of a mirror or a smaller audience such as close friends or family members. Then, you will deliver the speech to your chosen audience. You can also use an audio recording tool, to record your speech and submit an audio version of your speech to your teacher, if your teacher agrees. However, this is not mandatory.

Read the excerpt from cristina garcia’s dreaming in cuban.i don’t really want to talk about my father but i end up telling minnie how he used to take me horseback riding on our ranch, strapping me in his saddle with a leather seat belt he designed just for me. dad’s family owned casinos in cuba, and had one of the largest ranches on the island. there were beef cattle and dairy cows, horses, pigs, goats, and lambs. dad fed them molasses to fatten them, and gave the chickens corn and sorghum until they laid vermilion eggs, rich with vitamins. he took me on an overnight inspection once. we camped out under a sapodilla tree and listened to the pygmy owls with their old women’s voices. my father knew i understood more than i could say. he told me stories about cuba after columbus came. he said that the spaniards wiped out more indians with smallpox than with muskets.how does the structure of the excerpt add meaning to the passage? it includes historical information about the spaniards and indians to indicate the work is nonfiction.it describes the setting of the ranch owned by pilar’s cuban grandparents to explain family values.it uses several narrators to share their points of view about past and present life in cuba.it manipulates the chronological order of events to reveal the close relationship between pilar and her father.