Short Talks/Radio Talks/Debate Speeches Flashcards
How formal would your language be if you were speaking to UN or world leaders?
Very formal
How formal would your language be if you were speaking to classmates?
Informal
How formal would your language be if you were speaking to the principal and parents?
Slightly informal
What are the techniques used when writing a talk or speech?
- Address the audience
- Introduce yourself
- Open with a fact, anecdote or quote
- Present your topic and opinion immediately
- Pronouns/inclusive language
- Rhetorical questions
- Repetition
- Connecting phrases
- Concrete examples
- Facts/ statistics
- Refute counter arguments
- Structure - triad
- Contrast
- Identify problems, but offer solutions
- End with a call to action
- Return to original idea
What techniques would use to persuade the audience in a persuasive speech?
- Vivid imagery will arouse an emotional response
- Hyperbole
- Emotive language
- Evoke big ideas
- Use quotes to support your ideas
Who said:
“I don’t want to earn my living; I want to live”
Oscar Wilde
Who said:
“Whatever you are, be a good one”
Abraham Lincoln
Who said:
“Be the change you wish to see in the world”
Unknown
Who said:
“Love the life you live, and live the life you love”
Bob Marley
Who said:
” Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving”
Albert Einstein
Who said:
“Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions. Their passions a quotation”
Oscar Wilde
Who said:
“Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle”
Plato
Who said:
“Some cause happiness wherever they go, others whenever they go”
Oscar Wilde
Who said:
“Only when the last tree has died and the last river has been poisoned and the last fish been caught will we realise we cannot eat money”
Indian proverb
Who said:
“Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid”
Albert Einstein
Who said:
“Be who you are and say how you feel, because those who mind don’t matter, and those who matter don’t mind”
Dr Seuss
Speech
A speech can look at an issue from all sides (balanced view) or can take a one-sided view point (revealing a bias)-it’s up to the writer. You have to appeal to the audience’s emotions
Debate
A debate differs from a speech in that you are specifically asked to speak for/against a motion/topic. You must pick a side. You appeal to the audience’s reason and intelligence. Here the purpose is not to discuss an issue in a balanced way, but to convince the audience through logical arguments your point of view is the correct one
Is a radio talk formal or informal is?
A radio talk tends to be more informal
Who do you address in a radio talk?
You address the listeners, rather than the audience/photo students/world leaders
