This study deals with the art of rhetoric and the educational questions and possibilities of certain subareas – on the occasion of a rhetoric contest. After the introduction of the discipline, the study provides an overview of the international and national status quo of teaching rhetoric and then discusses the results of teaching rhetoric in Hungary in the last two decades. Before introducing the main phases of preparing for a rhetoric contest, it emphasizes the importance of continuous practice (classical preparatory exercises, argumentative essays, and oral presentations) and it introduces the steps of the preparation based on the five tasks of an orator (invention, arrangement, style, memory, and delivery). The study also discusses the questions of preparing compulsory speech and improvisation. The main aim of the study is to provide help with the introduction of particular techniques and methods, not only to prepare for a rhetoric contest, but also to create quality language use essential in any field of life and to raise the standard