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Reading for writing
UNIT 5
Q1:What was Sarah’s
problem?
Q2: How did she overcome the problem?
Q3:What is her advice
to others?
Read for information
Do you know how to write a speech?
Welcome the audience
Self-introduction
The topic
Personal anecdote(轶事)
Personal feeling
Close the speech
Thank the audience at the end
study the structure
Opening
Body
closing
What expressions does Sarah use to talk about how music can make us feel?
※Useful Expression:
1. The song made me feel so much better.
2. Music gave me happiness.
3. ... it made my spirits fly like a kite in the wind.
4. Music gave me strength and brought me relief.
5. It was the rock I leant on...
6. ...music gave me hope and a sense of satisfaction.
7. It spoke words of encouragement to the deepest part of my being.
...
Study the language features
To make the speech touching, the speakers often use rhetoric devices to let their speeches more powerful.
Rhetorical device
Simile(明喻)
A simile compares two things by using words such as “like” or “as”.
Metaphor(隐喻)
Little Kitty is as cute as a cat
A metaphor compares two things that are unrelated, but which are similar in some way.
That businessman is a real fox.
Rhetorical device
Rhetorical question(设问)
A rhetorical question is a question that isnt meant to elicit an answer, but is asked to make a point.
Personification(拟人)
I was very happy and could hear birds singing on the tree.
Personification is when a thing, idea, or animal is given human attributes.
How could I be so stupid?
Rhetorical device
Quote(引用)
To quote is to repeat a short passage, word, phrase, or sentence that came from somewhere or someone else.
Repetition(重复)
I came, I saw, I conquered.
Repetition is the use of the same word or phrase in a poem, speech, ete. It can be used for different purposes, such as to heighten tension or to give emphasis.
...as Longfellow says, “Music is the universal language of mankind.”
Practice
One’s eyes are the windows of his soul.