Question

In which of the following scenarios are audience and context most likely the primary concerns of the speaker?

a.
Sheree has been asked to speak about social security to a mixed group of college students, business people, and senior citizens.
b.
Erin is giving a motivational speech to a very large group of high school students seated on bleachers in the school’s gymnasium.
c.
Charles has been invited to Mrs. Delaney’s classroom to speak to her elementary school children about fire safety.
d.
Ethan is giving a highly technical presentation on biomedical engineering involving several working models, computerized graphs, and video clips to a group of doctors, scientists, and engineers.

Answer 1

A. I think it would be a concern.

Answer 2

The correct answer would be A. Sheree

The context of her speech is around social security which is a sensitive topic that people have their own opinions on already and she will be aware that there might be some disagreement with what she says and she will need to be prepared for that. Mixed with the context of the speech is the audience who are made up of different ages, backgrounds, employments which is a difficult audience to make a speech to already but around the issue of social security will be challenging.