Speaker Scout Interest Badge

Badge requirements

Demonstrate the duties of a chairman by taking the chair at a meeting.
Speak on a prepared subject to an audience of not fewer than 20 people. The speech must last 5 to 7 minutes. (Notes may be used, but the speech must not be read.)
Read aloud a piece of prose chosen by the examiner, who will judge diction, pace, emphasis, pauses and pitch.
Note: (4)(5)(6) and (7) are to be done after five minutes' notice:
Introduce a speaker.
Propose a vote of thanks.
Make an impromptu speech of at least three minutes' duration on a subject chosen from three subjects given by the examiner.
Propose a toast.
Make a speech of welcome to either:
1. An honoured guest, or
2. A group, or
3. New members.
Show how to get an idea across (e.g. how to organise a Patrol) by giving a talk using visual aids made by yourself.
OR
Produce evidence that you have been part of a debating team at school or elsewhere.