1. LO: To identify and demonstrate the conventions of speech.

2. What are the conventions
Listing in threes
Repetition
What are the conventions
of a formal speech?
Contrastive Pairs
Positive ‘us’ ‘we’ ‘our’
Short sentences
Negative ‘them’

3. “That’s one small step for man. One giant leap for mankind.”
“Labour will spend and spend, and borrow and borrow, and tax and tax.”
“That’s one small step for man. One giant leap for mankind.”
Neil Armstrong 1969
“I have a dream…This is our hope.”
Martin Luther King 1963
“It is with humility, pride and a great sense of duty that I accept the privilege and the great responsibility of leading our party and changing our country.”
Prime Minister – Gordon Brown
“Friends, Romans, countrymen, Lend me your ears”
Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare

4. “Yet Brutus says he was ambitious” Mark Antony
“I have a dream...”
Martin Luther King
Listing in threes
Contrastive Pairs
Repetition
Government of the people by the people for the people.”
Abraham Lincoln
“The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones.” Mark Antony
What are the conventions
of a formal speech?
Contrasts
“I come to bury Caesar; not to praise him.” Mark Antony
Positive ‘us’ ‘we’ ‘our’
“We shall pay any price, bear any burden....” President Kennedy
Short sentences
“I can answer in one word. It is victory.”
Winston Churchill
Negative ‘them’
“We can’t let them do this to our town!”

5. Opening lines?

6. Task: To write an opening line for a speech about why you should be Headboy or Headgirl .

7. If I succeed in achieving Headboy/girl status I intend to improve the school.

8. You now have two minutes to write your opening line.

9. Task: To plan your own speech on why you want to be Headboy using the conventions of a speech.

10. Planning
Mind map
Bullet-pointed lists
Flow Chart

11. Structure Opening – attention grabbing Introduction/overview
The main body – information (reasons)
Conclusions and something to think about – rhetorical question – quotation – anecdote – positive statement

12. Before you write anything....
Purpose – to get elected
Audience – peers/voters? The Head?
Focus – Your qualities/your intentions
Form – speech writing

13. After all, you want the best out of school, don’t you?
Opening line?
Rhetorical Question
Why I should be head boy
Why should I be head boy?
Conclusion
Qualities
Promises
- list of three
Good at listening to your ideas
Polite, organised, confident
What I am going to do for the school
Why choose me then?
Action plan
Clubs
Repetition of qualities
Community interaction
Study groups