Speeches

You will be writing and delivering a speech worth 3 credits.

You will be judged on the content and delivery.

We will be studying speeches by famous people, speech writing techniques and delivery.

Exemplars

Checklist

Wikipedia entry on rhetoric- interesting stuff

Handout on oral language techniques

15 Oral Persuasion Techniques from Gordon Murphy

Dystopian speeches in films...

Full text of Malala Yousafzai's speech with questions

Full text of the speech and questions to answer

Close reading of Obama's inaugural address

ESL vocabulary explained version of the speech

University Paper on the Inaugural address

Full text of the speech with questions to answer

Tim Minchin's website

Cool video- how to speak so people will listen

Short video on speech delivery techniques

Bad Speech!