English Oral Training syllabus
Each meeting will include
(1) Vocabulary Quiz from Textbook Amazing Compounds
(2) Speech session (Persuasive Speech)
(3) Listening activities
1.
2/22
Class orientation
2.
2/29
Speaker 1 2 3
3.
3/7
Speaker 4 5 6
4.
14
Speaker 7 8 9
5.
21
Listening practice 1
6.
28
Listening practice 2
7.
4/4
Spring break
8.
11
Speaker 10 11 12
9.
18
Midterm week: Oral Evaluation 1
10.
25
Speaker 13 14 15
11.
5/2
Speaker 16 17 18
12.
9
Speaker 19 20 21
13.
16
Sports day week
14.
23
Speaker 22 23 24
15.
30
Listening practice 3
16.
6/6
Listening practice 4
17.
13
Listening practice 5
18.
20
Finals: Oral Evaluation 2
(4)
Persuasive Speech Tips
Steve Iman, College of Business, Cal Poly Pomona
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Gain attention and interest. Try a quote? Try humor(see below)? Shock or startle?
("Before this speech is finish, 5 recent students will have lost jobs in the new
depression.") Try a direct question? ("What sort of internet addict are you?")
Stress a key word or symbol? (Get dialog going on the symbolic meaning of the
logo?)
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Try humor, depending on the overall purpose of the presentation. Old editions of
Readers Digest are great sources since the material is clean and people will
probably have forgotten the jokes.
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Establish your credibility early
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Demonstrate audience analysis and understanding. Make relevant, direct contact
with audience - why does it matter?
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Preview main points? (an arguments can be made that solutions shouldn't emerge
until at least half way through your speech in order to avoid having your position
pre-judged)
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Create cognitive dissonance. Your audience must feel involved in the problem
before they'll be moved to accept a solution
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Make effective transitions between ideas
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Demonstrate enthusiasm and/or passion
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Provoke thought through questions
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Construct a logical case with evidence in support of what you're trying to sell
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Avoid verbal fillers/disfluency
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Close with a memorable summary, perhaps request a specific act or action from
the audience . Be declarative, maybe firm and demanding in your close.
What do we mean by persuasive speaking?
Persuasive speaking urges us to do something. Informative speaking, on the other hand,
reveals and clarifies options. Informative speakers teach. Persuasive speakers lead,
evoke emotions and ask for audience commitment. Sometimes persuasive speeches are
aimed at earning passive agreement, as in persuading an audience of the importance of
some policy, value, or service. At other times, persuasive speeches aim for personal
action, as in getting people to join an organization, buy a product or service, or support
a cause.
Methods of Persuasion
People have been trying to influence one another for a long time. Maybe one of the most
articulate early speakers was the Greek Philosopher Aristotle. His ideas are as relevant
today as they were when he was teaching at the Lyceum around 300 B.C. He thought
there were basically three ways to influence people:

Credibility -- "ethos". Sometimes we believe something simply because we trust
the person telling us. You want to look like you know what you're talking about.

Emotional appeal -- "pathos". Sometimes we do things because of a "gut feeling"
or an appeal to our emotions, whether those of compassion or fear. Advertisers
make great headway tweaking our concerns about what others might think about
us.
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Rational appeal -- "logos". Providing good reasons is important. Providing
evidence and reasoning are a strong part of the persuasive process.
FREE Persuasive Speech OUTLINE
Absolutely essential for your speech.
A FREE Outline and Sample for YOU.
The Persuasive Speech Outline looked at here is designed to
REMOVE the ANXIETY of writing your speech.
Why struggle any longer?
But, you may have some questions ...
- Can a Outline help me understand what a Persuasive Speech
looks like?
- Can I use an Outline to build my speech?
- Will a Persuasive Speech outline help me assure my words will
be persuasive?
The answer to all these questions is a resounding YES.
Here is the Persuasive Speech outline that sets out
what a speech looks like that is
designed to persuade an audience.
Here is an outline that will enable your words
to move your audience to accept your point of view.
Here is the persuasive speech Outline that will guide
your audience to act on this new conviction.
This Persuasive Speech Outline will provide a FRAMEWORK on which you paint
your words, and provide the MAP needed for the journey guaranteeing
no-one gets lost.
If you wish, you can investigate a Persuasive speech SAMPLE or two, and return
here to this persuasive speech Outline to view how they were constructed.
I would suggest though that you first look over the persuasive speech Outline
below and then proceed to the samples using the link at the bottom.
Return here to make use this Outline for your persuasive speech.
How is a persuasive speech built?
This Persuasive Speech Outline shows how you can use the successful I B C
structure (Introduction .. Body .. Conclusion) to assist YOU in the preparation of
your speech and to provide a guiding map for the AUDIENCE so they do not get lost.
The result ... a powerful device to persuade.
A. INTRODUCTION
Tells your audience what you are going to tell them and establishes the
foundation for your speech. A good Introduction 'draws the map' for the journey.
For a Persuasive Speech, an Introduction consists of ...
1. Attention-Getter:
A statement, visual or sound (or combination) that startles, gains
attention and makes your audience sit up.
2. Bond : Link-to Audience:
Identify a personal connection in the audiences’ life, eg their use of
the ‘device’ or system, or there emotional
experience (grief and sorrow, happiness).
3. "Credentials" of Speaker (Credibility):
Demonstrate how you are an ‘expert’ through your own use,
experience or study.
4. Destination / Objective Sentence:
State clearly why you are speaking at this moment. State your Goal,
Thesis or what you expect as an Outcome.
State your Destination.
An example may be .. “This evening/today I am here to convince you
that .... is the most effective way to do business today"
5. Explain your Map to your Destination : Speech Preview:
Briefly outline what you will cover in your persuasive speech.
"This is where you will ... "
“Tell what you are going to tell them”
Transition: A transition is how you move from one section or point to
the next. It is a linking idea.
You could say … “Let’s begin by ...”, “Let’s start
with ...”
or I prefer “Let’s consider …”
B. BODY of your Speech
The Body of your speech is where the detail is found and is best contained in THREE
points (you can have more, but don't confuse your audience). For a Persuasive
Speech, this is where you will ...
“Tell them”
1. Main Point #1
State Point 1
State a Reason
Give an Example
Restate the Point
Transition: Create a linking statement to Point 2
2. Main Point #2
State Point 2
State a Reason
Give an Example
Restate the Point
Transition: Create a linking statement to Point 3
3. Main Point #3
State Point 3
State a Reason
Give an Example
Restate the Point
Transition: Create a linking statement to the Conclusion, eg “Let’s
summarise ..." or “Can we consider these main points ..."
C. CONCLUSION
“Tell them what you have told them”
1. Restate thesis:
2. Restate main points:
3. Call-to-Action: eg “I encourage you to …”, “Let’s all contribute …” , “…
sign now …”, “make a decision now to be involved …”
4. Decision-Maker (optional):
“Coming around is the petition …”
“Being passed from the rear is a bag for your
contribution to this noble cause, dig deep …”
This Persuasive Speech Outline is exceptionally powerful. Use it to write YOUR
speech.