1. Making a Public Speech

2. Features of your Speech
Make sure you use persuasive language…
for example
Emotive language (use strong adjectives ‘best’, ‘most important’, ‘stunning’ and verbs ‘will’, ‘need’, ‘must’, ‘should’, ‘could’)
Make it personal – ‘I’/’we’ to make your speech strong and personal; use the second person ‘You’ to involve your audience.
Forceful or memorable phrases
Clusters of three – three reasons, three benefits, three emotive words.

3. Features of your Speech
Use statistics (made up, if necessary!) use information to support your ideas. Don’t just keep saying ‘I THINK’. Explain what you believe and why.
Humour
Come up with memorable phrases or a slogan.
Alliteration
Metaphor
Simile

4. Features of your Speech
Rhetorical questions: questions that don’t actually require an answer (eg ‘Do you want all children in school to suffer? Or ‘Can you really live without this marvellous pen?’
Make what you say sound as if it is important.
Appeal to feelings and emotions: sympathy, empathy, guilt.

5. Features of your Speech
Threaten them – tell the person what will happen if you don’t get your way.
Strong conclusion – end your speech with a summary that will fix your ideas firmly in the audience’s mind. Remember that this will be the last thing that the examiner marks.