1. Match the following types of power with their definitions:
Definitions of Power
Match the following types of power with their definitions:
Practical Knowledge and ideas Position Personal
Place in a hierarchy, instrumental power,
backed by law.
Individual personality, nurturing and caring.
Access to information and understanding,
ability to influence people with it.
Physical actions, violence, skill, money,
services.

2. Power in Politics
What common patterns would you expect to see in the language of
power in political speeches?
Listen to the following speeches – what techniques can you identify
within them?
- Are they powerful speeches?
- Which speech do you find the most effective?
Power can not only be shown through a speaker’s choice of language
but through the way in which they deliver these words.

3. Political Speeches
Read through the extracts and identify anything that the speeches
have in common.
- Do any of the speeches use emotive language?
- Do they use triplets?
- Why and when is alliteration used?
- 1st, 2nd, 3rd person used and why?
- Are there any semantic fields used? If so, of what?
- How are short sentences used?
- Are there any biblical references used?
Create a table of similarities and differences between the texts.

4. ‘I saw the movie before I left for Paris.’
Adverbial Clauses
‘I saw the movie before I left for Paris.’
- This adverb clause contains a subject (I) and a verb (left). It is
introduced by ‘before’ so it is a dependent clause.
Place
Where?
Wherever there are computers,
there is Microsoft software.
Time
When?
After the fruit is harvested, it is
sold at the market.
Cause
Why? (What cause
this?)
I didn’t call her because I’m shy.
Purpose
Why? (What was the
reason for doing
She took a computer course so that
she could get a better job.
Concession
Why is this
unexpected?
Although he has a Master’s degree,
he works as a store clerk.
Condition
Under what
conditions?
If you save your money, you will be
able to go to university.

5. Can you identify any adverb clauses in the speeches?
Most adverb clauses can be recognised because they are introduced
by subordinating conjunctions.
- after, before, until, while, because, since, as, so that, in order that, if,
unless, whether, though, although, even though.
Can you identify any adverb clauses in the speeches?
Imagine you are Prime Minister and you have been asked to respond
to the issue of Euthanasia. Write the opening to a powerful speech
where you argue for or against this topic.