演讲是一门艺术。好的演讲自有一种激发听众情绪、赢得好感的'鼓动性。要做到这一点，首先要依靠演讲稿思想内容的丰富、深刻，见解精辟，有独到之处，发人深思，语言表达要形象、生动，富有感染力。如果演讲稿写得平淡无味，毫无新意，即使在现场“演”得再卖力，效果也不会好，甚至相反。在内容丰富的前提下，演讲的开场白也是非常重要的，如果演讲者能在开场白上激发起听众或者评委老师的兴趣，那么，他的演讲至少成功了一半，下面两个是比较成功的能引起听众兴趣的英语开场白：
1. So earlier this year, I was informed that I would be doing a TED Talk. So I was excited, then I panicked, then I was excited, then I panicked, and in between the excitement and the panicking, I started to do my research, and my research primarily consisted of Googling how to give a great TED interspersed with that, I was Googling Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. How many of you know who that is?...
2. My big ideais a very, very small ideathat can unlockbillions of big ideasthat are at the moment dormant inside my little idea that will do thatis is a room of type-A is a roomof sleep-deprived I learned the hard way,the value of -and-a-half years ago,I fainted from exhaustion.I hit my head on my desk. I broke my cheekbone,I got five stitches on my right I began the journeyof rediscovering the value of in the course of that,I studied,I met with medical doctors, scientists,and I'm here to tell youthat the way to a more productive,more inspired, more joyful lifeis getting enough sleep....
