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Persuasive Speech Topics – Ideas

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You have been asked to give a persuasive speech. This is a much harder task than the informative speech. The problem is what topic to choose for your speech. Here is a list with a number of good ideas.

Ready made persuasive speeches

Ideas in pictures

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The i-pod generation – Should music be free?

Man’s best friend?

Road congestion charging – the way of the future?

More topics

  • Animal rights
  • Ten things you can do for a Dollar/ Euro/ Pound
  • What you should wear for your next date/ job interview
  • I can make you thin
  • Pay off your student loan in three easy steps
  • Volunteering – What can you do about it?
  • Golf – the best hobby in the world or a complete waste of time?
  • Ten good tips for legal tax avoidance
  • Three easy ways to improve your time management
  • Can drugs reverse the ageing process?
  • If you believe – they put a man on the moon
  • Princess Diana – a cover up?
  • Internet – the death of the newspaper?
  • Can we eradicate AIDS in Africa?
  • Is Broadband economic in rural areas?
  • What good is keep fit?
  • Sex, drugs and rock and roll – good fun or a major health hazard?
  • Getting to the top of the waiting list
  • Road congestion charging – the way of the future?
  • Dogs – wolves in the living room or man’s best friend?
  • 7 easy ways to simplify your life?
  • The five day detox
  • The Loch Ness monster really does exist
  • Creative thinking
  • Has the DaVinci code just been made up?
  • Half man – half robot. Should we be scared?

Political

  • Creative thinking
  • Vote for me
  • Why there should be a United States of Europe
  • An easy way to give up smoking
  • Why prostitution should be legalized
  • How we can get more people to vote?
  • Why the death penalty should be abolished in the United States
  • Why we should not consume genetically modified crops?
  • Should religious clothes be banned in schools?
  • The war in Iraq – was it justified?

Famous lives

  • The greatest American./ Briton/ French Person/ Scientist/ Discoverer/ Adventurer of all time
  • Scott of the Antarctic – hero or failure?
  • Winston Churchill – good man or a famous alcoholic?

 

Can drugs reverse the ageing process?

The internet – the death of the newspaper?

Did they really put a man on the moon?

Are we happier than our parents generation?

Send in your speeches!

After you have done your speech why not send it in to us? This way everybody can benefit.

Simply email them into the address on our contacts page.