6. Pick a general topic and try to come up with several different attention getters for that topic. Here’s an example for the topic “dogs”:

c Tell a funny story about your dog.

c “Did you know that the human mouth contains more germs than a dog’s mouth?”

c “In my hometown, there is a dog that walks upright like a human because he does not have any front legs.”

c “Did you know that approximately 10 million unwanted dogs are euthanized annually in the United States?”