Week 3: Persuasive Speech

Listening and Speaking

Watch this section of video and write the transcript.

Make notes on your text to help you read it fluently. Mark the pauses and the intonation. How does his voice go up and down? Whet emotions and authority does her convey?

Record yourself on SoundCloud and upload in the comments.

Week 2: Focus on listening and speaking.

Listen to this song and read the Lyrics: Next to me

Class discussion: 

• Any new vocabulary? 
• What words are stressed? 
• What words are spoken softly?
• What words are blended?
• How does the voice convey emotions?

Select 2 paragraphs and practise reading them with meaning, like a poem.

Record yourself on your SoundCloud and attach the link in a comment to this post.

Week 1. Listening & Speaking

Week 1: Listening & Speaking

Listen to this video from Behind the News. Click the link below.

1. Listen and watch the video.
2. Listen and read the transcript.
3. Choose 1 -2 paragraphs, copy and paste into a word doc. Then annotate the intonation.What words are said loudest? Listen for words that are quiet and words that are blended together.
4. Practice reading your paragraph.
5. Take a screenshot of your text, put into Fotobabble as a jpg and then record your reading.
6. Upload /add the link your recording to this Blog in the comments box.

ABC Behind the News Iraq Invasion story

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