SpeakCoachLab
Games & Activities

Useful practice that doesn’t feel like homework.

Funny, flexible activities for public speaking, storytelling, debate, persuasion, creativity, and confidence. Pick one, read the instructions, and try it on your own, with a partner, or with a group.

01

Quick & Silly

Fast activities designed to lower the pressure and get ideas moving.

4 activities
🎩

The Ridiculous Expert

Become the world’s leading expert on something completely ordinary—and explain it with total confidence.

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🧺

Talk Show for an Object

Interview a household object as if it were a celebrity guest with opinions, secrets, and complaints.

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🧠

The Worst Advice Office

Give hilariously terrible advice—then fix it by explaining what good advice would actually sound like.

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🛒

Sell the Unsellable

Turn an awful product into something people suddenly feel they need.

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02

Imagination

Play with strange perspectives, surprising explanations, and unusual worlds.

4 activities
👽

Explain It to an Alien

Explain an everyday human habit to someone who has never seen Earth before.

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🪄

Make a Boring Thing Fascinating

Take something dull and find a surprising angle that makes people want to hear more.

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🧳

The Mystery Suitcase

Invent the owner of a strange suitcase using only a few mysterious objects inside it.

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🔄

The Opposite World

Imagine a world where one normal rule works in the exact opposite way.

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03

Storytelling

Practice openings, structure, transitions, and making a story go somewhere.

4 activities
🧵

Three-Word Story

Build a complete story around three words that seem to have absolutely nothing to do with each other.

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🎬

Start at the Disaster

Skip the boring beginning and start a story at the exact moment everything goes wrong.

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🍀

Fortunately / Unfortunately

Build a story that keeps swinging between good luck and terrible luck.

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🏁

Begin With the Ending

Start with the final line, then invent the story that could possibly lead to it.

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04

Debate & Persuasion

Build arguments, switch sides, compare tradeoffs, and defend ideas.

4 activities
⚖️

For, Against, Switch!

Argue one side of a harmless topic—then switch and make the other side sound just as convincing.

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🦆

Defend the Ridiculous

Build a serious argument for a completely silly proposal.

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🪙

The Impossible Choice

Choose between two imperfect options and explain which tradeoff you can live with.

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Fix the Weak Argument

Take a weak argument and repair it until it can survive a serious question.

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05

Words & Delivery

Experiment with clarity, word choice, emphasis, description, and rhythm.

4 activities
🌀

Tongue-Twister Remix

Invent your own ridiculous tongue twister instead of repeating the same famous ones forever.

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🎭

Same Words, New Meaning

Use the exact same sentence but change the emotion until it sounds like a completely different message.

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✂️

Say It in Half the Words

Take a long explanation and keep shrinking it without losing the point.

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🖼️

Describe It Without Naming It

Help someone identify an object without using its name or the most obvious related words.

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06

Confidence & Flexibility

Get comfortable adapting, making mistakes, and thinking with other people.

4 activities
🤹

Permission to Be Terrible

Deliberately create the worst presentation imaginable, then identify exactly what made it bad.

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🎲

Add One More Problem

Keep solving a situation while someone keeps making it worse.

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🪜

One Idea, Three Audiences

Explain the same idea to three very different people without changing the core message.

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Build on the Last Idea

Create something together by making every new contribution connect to what came before.

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Pick one and make it your own.

Most activities can be shortened, made harder, made sillier, or adapted for one person, a pair, a classroom, or a group.