Introducing the Persuasive Oral

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Introducing the Persuasive Oral Presentation

Your task is to prepare a 5 to 7 minute persuasive oral presentation on a current issue that has been discussed in the media. You will need to draw upon the ideas and techniques studied as part of the Language Analysis unit so far and demonstrate your understanding of them through presenting an informative, intelligent and engaging speech.

The notes from our last class can be found here, including the criteria that you will be assessed by.

 

It’s important that you pick an issue that has substance and which you can get passionate about. Have a look at what’s in the media and have a look at the different types of issues and approaches you can take:

 

 

Let’s present a speech…

Your goal is to write and present a speech of at least 3 minutes.You will not have much time to prepare this speech, so you will need to use dot points and use the following structure to ensure your speech has form and purpose.

Have one cue card for each of the following steps. Write our the first sentence for each step/point in full, then use dot-points for everything that follows on that card.

 

Step 1: Open with a hook…

  • This could be an anecdote, interesting fact or rhetorical question…

 

Step 2: Make a statement about your topic and position…

  • Provide a summary of what your three arguments will be…

 

Step 3: State your first argument…

  •  Explain and substantiate your argument…

 

Step 4: State your second argument…

  • Explain and substantiate your argument…

 

Step 5: State your third argument…

  • Explain and substantiate your argument…

 

Step 6: Conclude your argument with a call-to-action…

  • The should be the ‘message’ of your speech…

 

 

Resources that you need to be using

You can now be selecting and researching the topic for your speech, with the aim of starting planning and/or writing your speech early next week. You should make use of the following resources when doing so: