Hi, y'all!

Hi, there!

This is the rubric I'll be using in your presentations this week!

ROLE PLAY ORAL RUBRIC

Hi there!

I had some technical problems, so I couldn't upload the presentation earlier toda.

Anyway, here it is, so you can read it and analyze it for the partial exam.

See ya!

Globalization

Hi again:

Finally, here's the presentation we had this week. Please, take a look at it and keep it for further reference:

International Business

Hi there!:

Here's the presentation we had today during our session. We also include another one about Intercultural communication, just in case you want to know a little bit more about this topic.

Enjoy!

Cumbre de Ingeniería: English for Engineers

Intercultural communication

See you!

Hello there!

Finally,  here are the presentation and videos we saw last week. I hope it's not to late for you to view them...

Intercultural Communication (PowerPoint presentation)

American hand gestures

Intercultural Communication Adventure

Hi:

Here's the rubric you have to analyze and keep in mind when doing your videos.

See ya!

Hi:

Here's the rubric we'll use to evaluate your videos- presentations.

See ya!

Hi, there:

As I told you in class today, next week we have to work with relative clauses and finish with expressions of contrast and purpose.

In order to get ready for the new topics, please check out the following pages, and answer the exercises that go along with the explanations:

Relative clauses: defining and non- defining clauses

Exercise 1

Exercise 2

Contrast and purpose clauses: Exercise 1

Exercise 2

And finally, the topic of the oral evaluation next Tuesday... In teams of three, prepare a situation in which you talk about people or other things, BUT USING REPORTED SPEECH AND RELATIVE CLAUSES. Max 5 mins. per team.

See you next Monday!!

Hi, people:

As I promised, here are your videos with your final presentations. Enjoy them!!

See you on the 18th.

Persuasive speech: Online college education

Political speech: Accepting a candidacy

Informative speech: Emotional intelligence in business

Political speech: Responding to a fraud accusation

Informative speech: How to deal with annoying people

Political debate: Presidential debate

Political debate: Class president

Hi:

To sum up all the presentations and material I gave you in class, here's a list of ppt and articles for you to keep for further reading and preparation:

• How to write an informative speech
• How to write a persuasive speech
• How to write a political speech
• How to debate
• Visual aids
• Biased statements
• Know your audience before speaking to a group

Hi again:

Here are some examples of debates. Check them out as a preparation for our own in a few days.

The candidates speak for their records

Southern Republican Presidential Debate (January 19 2012) Check out the way they introduce themselves.

British political debate on immigration

The first Kennedy/ Nixon Presidential Debate (1960)

Presidential debate in Mexico 2012 (Part 1)

See you!

Hi again:

Here's another example of what we talked about this morning. The sections we mentioned are clearly defined here, in a speech delivered in February 2007.

Barack Obama's Official Announcement of Candidacy for the United States Presidency
(transcript)

Check it out and good luck with your own!
See you tomorrow!!

Hi there:

As I told you in class this morning, here are just four speeches from hundreds of famous ones in history. Listen to them and try to analyze what is mentioned in them, as well as the type of message it's delivered each time. To help you with this task, I'm including the transcripts.

Enjoy!

Martin Luther King, Jr. "I have a dream" (transcript)

Malcolm X "The Ballot or the Bullet" (transcript)

John Fitzgerald Kennedy "Inaugural Address" (transcript)

Richard Milhous Nixon "Resignation Address" (transcript)

Hi:

Check out the following videos, analyze them and then be ready to share your comments next Monday.

Enjoy your weekend!!!

Josefina Vazquez Mota

Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador

Enrique Peña Nieto

Gabriel Quadri

Hi:

Here´s a list of some topics you can use. Narrow them down to 3 ideas and decide on one. Remember it should be something you feel identified with, so you can transmit your emotional charge to your audience.

Persuasive speech ideas for 630+ speechwriting presentations:

20 Policy Questions
25 Opinion
30 Speech Class
15 Serious
20 Current
15 Fact or Value
15 Common
15 Cool
29 Popular
36 Original
32 Exciting
16 Strong
31 Easy
25 Possible
23 Unusual
36 List
38 Different
18 Light
17 Top
12 Ready Made Statements
How To Make The Overused Interesting
18 on Health
23 on Education
18 Environmental
25 Policy
16 Sports Related
13 Motivational

Hi, y'all:

Here are the links to the videos we watched last Friday, plus some others:

Gay marriage in America

Making a difference through special olympics

Types of persuasion for speeches

Tips on how to write a great persuasive speech

Be a Hero, Give blood

Thank you for smoking

Eliminate the fear of public speaking forever!

The girl that silenced the world for 5 minutes

Putting the brakes on teenage driving