Identify the type of speech introduction in the following examples. Decide from one of these options: Asking Questions, Telling a Story, Stating an Unusual Fact, Using Humour, Beginning with a Quotation.

1. How many people in this room smoke at least one cigarette every day?
   1. Asking Questions
2. I am handicapped. This is a title which has been bestowed on me because I am confined to a wheelchair. But, what I have learned is that handicapped people are confined by society in some very important ways.
   1. Telling a Story
3. What will life be like in the year 2050?
   1. Asking Questions
4. Last year our family was the host for a foreign student from Israel. His name was Gabriel Soldad and he lived with us for nine months. It was our intention to give Gab a chance to learn about the United States. What we didn’t expect was that we would learn even more about the world from him.
   1. Telling a Story
5. Materialism has become a way of life in the United States.
   1. Stating a fact (opinion).
6. One tenth of a second is all it takes for you to crash through a windshield of a car if you are not wearing a seatbelt. You could end up dead!
   1. Stating a fact (not unusual).