Then, you can elaborate on that fact, or lead up to it and come around to making it your ending as well as your beginning.

Example:

Did you know that you can get through high school in just three years!

I wish I had known this when I was a freshman in high school. Just think, I would have finished a whole year of college by now instead of being just a freshman.

Here is how I could have done it . . . .

……….

………..

But here I am, and I missed out on entering college early.

I agree with John Greenleaf Whittier who penned the lines “For of all sad words of tongue or pen,

The saddest are these: `It might have been!'”

But – your teacher may have given you a specific format for your speech. If that is true, you need to faithfully follow her format.

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