The different steps of the assignment
1) Learning about how to construct a speech: examples and tips
2) Doing background research, finding the topic you want to focus on, writing down facts, statistics etc. and creating a mind map of the main points you are going to deal with
3) Writing the actual speech
4) The written speech will be assessed and marked by the teacher as a written assignment
5) Once you get the marked speech back (with any possible corrections) you then rehearse reading it out loud (= "speaking it") in front of the class - here the focus should be on your tone of voice, intonation, speed of speech, body language etc. but you don't have to learn the speech by heart.
2) Doing background research, finding the topic you want to focus on, writing down facts, statistics etc. and creating a mind map of the main points you are going to deal with
3) Writing the actual speech
4) The written speech will be assessed and marked by the teacher as a written assignment
5) Once you get the marked speech back (with any possible corrections) you then rehearse reading it out loud (= "speaking it") in front of the class - here the focus should be on your tone of voice, intonation, speed of speech, body language etc. but you don't have to learn the speech by heart.