FLE Speech Writing WowEnglish.co.uk What is the PAFT of a speech? Fill in the information below. Purpose Audience Format Tone Watch a speech Watch a speech of your choice and fill in the analysis grid below. You can find these speeches easily by searching for them online, using a website like Youtube. • Martin Luther King Jr. ‘I have a dream’ • Greta Thunberg’s address to the UN • Emma Watson’s UN speech on gender equality Question Summarise the main points of the speech. What language features do you notice in the speech? Your answer FLE Speech Writing WowEnglish.co.uk What type of words do the speakers use and why? How do the speakers persuade the audience of their main message? Example response for speech writing My company, General Dexterity was once a cold place to work. My employees were as robotic as the machines we made... Unhappiness has sunk into the walls, the floors, the very fabric of my company. Yes, my employees worked hard, but they never stayed for long. Now, my fellow entrepreneurs, I have decided to make some changes and I am here in the hope that you might also consider how you can improve employee wellbeing and promote a happier workplace. Well, I don’t mean to brag but frankly GD has achieved a lot. I founded GD myself many moons ago, even designing the logo and investing my last 100 dollars into the business… everyone said I was crazy! As many of you may know, we design software for robotics and hope to move into other areas of AI in the future. The ultimate aim is to replace human labour with robotics so that repetitive tasks can be a thing of the past and we can focus on more pleasurable aspects of work, like creativity. Our large premises house some very high-tech equipment to make this happen, which isn’t cheap, but I believe that’s what’s necessary to truly push the boundaries and take our species to greatness. FLE Speech Writing WowEnglish.co.uk Analyse the response What makes this a good speech? You can annotate the example above and then write your answers in the table below. Try to give examples and quotes in your response. Question What is the tone? Give some examples. What do you notice about my language choices? What do you notice about my punctuation? What features make the speech sound more spoken? Your answer FLE Speech Writing WowEnglish.co.uk Create a list of ‘rules’ for speech writing Write your list below. You can think about how you should write a speech: what type of language should you use? What type of punctuation? What do you need to remember to do? FLE Speech Writing WowEnglish.co.uk Speech writing tasks Pick one of the tasks below to practice your speech writing and then write your response. EITHER You are a company director and have made some changes to your company to improve efficiency. Write a speech to your employees to explain what changes you have made and why. OR You are a local mayor campaigning for re-election. Recently, your voters have begun to dislike you. 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What went well? How will you improve your work next time?
