Service Description

Phase 1: It is a 1-to-6 course. This course focuses on the art of speech-making. By studying great speech-makers of the past, students will develop their own speech-writing and presentation skills. We will analyse the skills needed to make an effective speech and students will be able to apply those skills to their own practical work. By the end of the course, everyone will have written and recorded their own speech, employing some of the techniques used by some of the greatest speakers of the past and present Lesson 1: Text: Richard Greene - 7 Secrets of the Greatest Speakers Rhetorical technique: Cicero's 5 canons of rhetoric: Invention Performance technique: Appearing calm and confident Content: Study Richard Greene speech. All students will have a chance to perform an existing speech (or section) and to record it. Decide on the subject for your own speech. Lesson 2: Text: Martin Luther King Rhetorical technique: Arrangement Performance technique: Pace Content: Analysis of King's technique. Development of own speech Lesson 3: Text: Susan B Anthony Rhetorical technique: Style Performance technique: Variety Content: Analysis of speech. Development of own speech (sharing sections) Lesson 4: Text: Abraham Lincoln Rhetorical technique: Memory Performance technique: Engage the audience Content: Analysis of speech. Development of own speech (sharing sections) Lesson 5: Text: Barack Obama Rhetorical technique: Delivery Performance technique: Put it all together Content: Final performances - recording - and feedback