Informative Speech
Title: “Everything is Bigger in Texas, Even the Attractions.”
Purpose: After listening to my speech, the audience will be more educated on Texas’s roadside attractions, as well as relate to the sites I will discuss in my presentation.
Thesis: We Texans know that our states attractions stand out more than all the other states, because Texas is the only place where you can have a 72-ounce steak in Amarillo, tour a museum filled with decorative toilet seats in San Antonio, and feed a beer-drinking goat in Lajitas.
Introduction:
Have you ever been on a family trip and wondered if there was anything fun to do? Of course you have, who hasn’t? Well, if you are traveling across Texas, there are hundreds of places for you to tour, sit down and have a meal, or take a crazy picture. Texas is home to over 24 million people and hundreds of roadside attractions. However, what makes Texas’s attractions stand out among all the rest? For starters, Texas is home to the 2nd largest Fire Hydrant in Beaumont, the biggest pilgrim head in Pittsburg, and a replica of the Eiffel Tower in Paris. Nevertheless, these landmarks do not even scratch the surface on how bizarre, big, and jaw dropping Texas’s attractions truly are. Texas is the one place where you can eat a 72-ounce steak in Amarillo, tour a museum filled with decorative toilet seats in San Antonio, and feed a beer-drinking goat in Lajitas. Wow, what a state!
(Transition: Who is from Amarillo? Has anyone ever been to the Big Texan?)
Body:
I. The Big Texan and its famous 72-ounce steak Competition
A. A little information about The Big Texan
1. R. J. “Bob” Lee, a Midwesterner, whose family roots went back Kansas City, grew up on stories and movies about cowboys, Indians, horses and Texas cattle ranches. When Lee finally made his way to the Texas Panhandle and Amarillo with his wife Mary Ann and their growing family, it didn’t take long for him to embrace the Lone Star State and to claim its persona as his own.
Purpose: After listening to my speech, the audience will be more educated on Texas’s roadside attractions, as well as relate to the sites I will discuss in my presentation.
Thesis: We Texans know that our states attractions stand out more than all the other states, because Texas is the only place where you can have a 72-ounce steak in Amarillo, tour a museum filled with decorative toilet seats in San Antonio, and feed a beer-drinking goat in Lajitas.
Introduction:
Have you ever been on a family trip and wondered if there was anything fun to do? Of course you have, who hasn’t? Well, if you are traveling across Texas, there are hundreds of places for you to tour, sit down and have a meal, or take a crazy picture. Texas is home to over 24 million people and hundreds of roadside attractions. However, what makes Texas’s attractions stand out among all the rest? For starters, Texas is home to the 2nd largest Fire Hydrant in Beaumont, the biggest pilgrim head in Pittsburg, and a replica of the Eiffel Tower in Paris. Nevertheless, these landmarks do not even scratch the surface on how bizarre, big, and jaw dropping Texas’s attractions truly are. Texas is the one place where you can eat a 72-ounce steak in Amarillo, tour a museum filled with decorative toilet seats in San Antonio, and feed a beer-drinking goat in Lajitas. Wow, what a state!
(Transition: Who is from Amarillo? Has anyone ever been to the Big Texan?)
Body:
I. The Big Texan and its famous 72-ounce steak Competition
A. A little information about The Big Texan
1. R. J. “Bob” Lee, a Midwesterner, whose family roots went back Kansas City, grew up on stories and movies about cowboys, Indians, horses and Texas cattle ranches. When Lee finally made his way to the Texas Panhandle and Amarillo with his wife Mary Ann and their growing family, it didn’t take long for him to embrace the Lone Star State and to claim its persona as his own.
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