Of mice and men
Year 8 Speech Structure Sheet:
Introduction:
Attention grabber: You need to start in an interesting way to engage your audience. Possibilities include a famous quote, a rhetorical question, an interesting fact, an anecdote or personal experience. The attention grabber must relate to your topic. (1 sentence)
Acknowledge your audience: You must acknowledge who you’re speaking to, whether it be classmates, ladies and gentlemen or UNESCO committee members. The audience is outlined on your task sheet. (1 sentence)
Main contention: What is the main point or argument you are trying to convince your audience to believe. You need to state it clearly and confidently. E.g. Mandatory detention for asylum seekers is extremely unfair and shameful; it must be stopped. (1 sentence)
Overview of three main points: Briefly outline the three ideas in the body of your speech that will help the audience to agree with you. E.g. The conditions that asylum seekers suffer in detention centres are terrible and even the UN is against this process. All the asylum seekers want is to live in peace. (1-2 sentences)
Body Paragraphs:
You must try to use the TEEL structure
Body Paragraph One: start with your strongest argument
P – outline the main idea or topic in the paragraph – there should only be one (1 sentence)
E – expand or explain the topic in more detail – contextualise it (1 sentence)
E – use evidence and examples to prove what you’re saying is true. This is where you use persuasive techniques. Try to use at least one different persuasive technique in each body paragraph (2-4 sentences)
L – Link the idea presented in this paragraph to your main contention (1 sentence)
The same structure for body paragraph two and three.
Conclusion:
Re-iterate: Re-iterate your main contention. Try to use different words to portray the same meaning (1 sentence)
Re-state: Re-state your three main arguments from your body paragraph, including how they prove your main contention to be accurate
Introduction:
Attention grabber: You need to start in an interesting way to engage your audience. Possibilities include a famous quote, a rhetorical question, an interesting fact, an anecdote or personal experience. The attention grabber must relate to your topic. (1 sentence)
Acknowledge your audience: You must acknowledge who you’re speaking to, whether it be classmates, ladies and gentlemen or UNESCO committee members. The audience is outlined on your task sheet. (1 sentence)
Main contention: What is the main point or argument you are trying to convince your audience to believe. You need to state it clearly and confidently. E.g. Mandatory detention for asylum seekers is extremely unfair and shameful; it must be stopped. (1 sentence)
Overview of three main points: Briefly outline the three ideas in the body of your speech that will help the audience to agree with you. E.g. The conditions that asylum seekers suffer in detention centres are terrible and even the UN is against this process. All the asylum seekers want is to live in peace. (1-2 sentences)
Body Paragraphs:
You must try to use the TEEL structure
Body Paragraph One: start with your strongest argument
P – outline the main idea or topic in the paragraph – there should only be one (1 sentence)
E – expand or explain the topic in more detail – contextualise it (1 sentence)
E – use evidence and examples to prove what you’re saying is true. This is where you use persuasive techniques. Try to use at least one different persuasive technique in each body paragraph (2-4 sentences)
L – Link the idea presented in this paragraph to your main contention (1 sentence)
The same structure for body paragraph two and three.
Conclusion:
Re-iterate: Re-iterate your main contention. Try to use different words to portray the same meaning (1 sentence)
Re-state: Re-state your three main arguments from your body paragraph, including how they prove your main contention to be accurate