Impromptu
Impromptu
These types of speeches are most commonly found in public speaking courses, debate
competitions, etc. These kinds of speeches are becoming a popular way to test and practice
public speaking and communication skills.
Try to choose something you know about or are already familiar with or something you eagerly
want to talk about.
Choose a topic or idea where the scope is limited so you can cover all its important aspects.
Keep in mind that the goal here is to inform or persuade your audience. So, choose a topic that
meets this criterion.
Good Impromptu Speech Topics for Students
Here are some of the topics for impromptu speech for students to improve their communication
skills. Simply know your audience and focus on the way you are delivering the speech.
2. If men don't lactate, then why did they evolve with nipples?
5. What if one day Google was deleted and we couldn't google what happened to Google?
8. Why do sleeping pills have warning that states: caution: May cause Drowsiness?
9. Should i carry a razor while boarding a flight so that if it is lost in a forest for months i should
have it for shaving my beard?
12. If you are enjoying your time, is that time really wasted?
16. Why is the time of day with the slowest traffic called rush hour?
17. Is it crazy how saying sentences backwards creates backwards sentences saying how crazy
it is?
19. Why did it take so long to create a simple one-celled creature compared to the time it took to
create a human being?
20. Why do we think shyness is a bad trait while many like being quiet and calm?
21. What's the hardest thing you ever did that made you question your beliefs?
22. Is there something that happened to you that your friends or colleagues couldn't believe
when you told them?
23. What is something you found out about your partner that you didn't know before you got
married?
24. Why do men get fat in the belly and women get fat around the hips?
25. Have you ever wanted to meet the teenage version of your parents?
25. When you die, would you want to see how many times in your life you laughed, cried, got
angry, or became sad?
28. When someone else yawns or burps why do I get the urge to yawn and burp?
32. Why does not the hair on your arms grow as fast as the hair on your head?
34. Have you ever noticed that word "swims" upside-down is still "swims"?
35. Did you know that what you see has already happened 15 seconds ago?
36. Why is it that when you’re driving and looking for an address, you turn down the volume on
the radio?
37. Did you know that if you folded a paper in half 5o times its thickness would be equal to two
thirds of the distance between the Earth and the Sun?
38. Why are giant redwood trees' roots mostly in the top 3 feet of soil and carrots can go into the
soil up to 6 feet?
"I always get to where I'm going by walking away from where I have been." - Winnie the Pooh
40. What was the first thing that God said to Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden? And what
did he say after that?
41. Why do we say "Don't judge a book by its cover?" If people can judge a book by its cover,
then why do they say this?
43. Why do you need a driver’s license to buy alcohol when you can’t drink and drive?
45. If the toys in Toy Story died, would the kids still be playing with them?
48. What does it mean when I dream about someone who has passed away?
49. What is a dream that you've had that you'd never tell your partner?
50. How do you put up boundaries with your friends and loved ones?
51. Did you know that 100 years ago everyone owned a horse and only the rich had cars and
today everyone has cars and only the rich own horses?
52. If someone with multiple personalities threatens to kill himself, is it considered a hostage
situation?
55. Why can psychics predict what will happen to someone but they can't predict natural
disasters?
57. Why did "she" sell seashells on the seashore when you can just pick them up anyway?
62. Why does US-B sound like a backup plan for US-A?
65. If no one ever died, what would we look like, how many people would there be, and where
would we all live?
69. What if a Mechanic fixes a car but breaks something so that you keep coming back?
70. What if there was no time because we just made it up and we're all living one long day,
including the dinosaurs?
71. If you rip a hole in a net, are there actually fewer holes in it than there were before?
73. Do attractive people think that the world is a lot more polite than it really is?
74. Is it true that we're all just illusions, just a bunch of dense energies of light bobbing around?
76. What if sweating is just your muscles crying for you to stop?
76. What if I eat myself, would I become twice as big or disappear completely?
77. What if air is actually poisonous and it just takes 80 years to kill us?
79. why are adults ashamed about nakedness but babies are not?
80. When I massage myself, why doesn't it feel as good as when someone else massages me?
83. Did you know that many animals probably need glasses, but nobody knows it?
85. Why don't we shed our skin the way crabs and snakes do?
87. What if when a new iPhone comes out there's an update that makes older iPhones slower?
88. What if we used to be able to make wishes but someone wished we couldn't?
89. What if we can breathe in space but the government tells us we can't so that we don't try to
escape?
90. Why is the letter W, in English, called double U? Shouldn't it be called double V?
91. Every time you clean something, you just make something else dirty.
92. Did you know that if you replace "W" with "T" in "What, Where and When", you get the
answer to each of them?
93. Why do they call it tomato ketchup instead of tomato blood, since it contains the tomato's
blood?
96. If I traveled to the nearest star and came back to Earth would my kid be older than me
because time is different in outer space?
99. Have you ever wondered how many times you've passed up an opportunity that could’ve
drastically changed your life?
100. Why do we call pizzas pies but we don't call pies pizzas?
101. If you try to fail and succeed, then which have you done?
104. If a greyhound ran through your neighborhood at 45 miles per hour and the speed limit was
25 mph, is it breaking the law?
105. Why do they call it German chocolate cake when it was invented in Texas?