Opening and Closing a Telelesson

• Grab their attention.
• Create interest.
• Fire their imagination.
• Arouse curiosity.
• Energize.
• Agitate.
• Use magic.
• Appeal to the passions.
• Appeal to past experience.
• Create strong visual images.
• Make humorous comparisons.
• Make mental images.
• Use analogies with visuals.
• Create word pictures.
• Compare the not-so-obvious.
• Look for resemblances.
• Create excitement and anticipation.
• Shock them.
• Create a desire for more.
• Use theatrics.
• Appeal to natural inquisitiveness.
• Inspire.
• Stimulate possibilities.

• Appeal to dreams.
• Create fantasies.
• Exaggerate.
• Stimulate new connections: “Why not?” What if?
• Arouse emotions.
• Electrify.
• Create tension.
• Irritate.
• Wrap your key points in a story.
• Did you know that...
• Quote of the day.

Use closings to:

• Summarize key points.
• Create curiosity about what is to come
• Capture imagination.
• Tell a meaningful story.
• Capture your key points in a poem.
• Use magic.
• Grab their curiosity.