• How you remember his first day at work, when there was the incredible heat wave [oven]
• How he was dressed in a suit while you were all wearing shorts and T-shirts [shorts]
• Commemorate his soccer skills [soccer ball]
• Tell funny story about how he kicked the ball exactly through a small kitchen window of the building next door [kitchen sink]
• Relate this to his working skills: how he sometimes comes up with very short programs that nevertheless do the job [paper from line printer to symbolize program]

Suppose the dinner takes place in a side room of a Mexican restaurant that you know well. Working from left to right you position the key words above at various places in the room.

• Mentally place a large oven on the far left, near some colorful pictures, which you image are about to burst out in flames, because of the heat
• Imaging the large cactus 'dressed' in shorts
• Put the football on the small shelve above the door, so that it could fall down on someones head any moment
• Imaging the bottles to the right to be leaking down into a big kitchen sink below
• Finally, wrap the big black pot on the far right in printer paper.

Now, you have positioned your ideas in the room. If you have done this well, you can 'let go' of them and concentrate on the contents of your speech.

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