cooperation regionally and internationally. Mergers‚ associations‚ and takeovers are common and English is used as the means to communicate‚ negotiate and execute transactions by participants where one partner can be a native speaker of English or none of the partners are native speakers of English. The world we live like a “global village” where no nation‚ group or culture can remain anonymous (Samovar & Porter‚ 1991). As the world becoming smaller‚ we are increasing interaction with people from different
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Oprah Winfrey is an influential person because she has made a lot of different changes in the world and a lot of different impacts on other people’s lives. Oprah is very helpful and she goes out of her way to do a good deed. She has made many good books about life. She is very understanding. She grew up with a single teenaged mother and had to live with her very poverty-stricken grandmother who made dresses for Oprah out of potato sacks. But the good thing about her grandmother was that she taught
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on the written and on reading‚ so class work would have to have a considerable component of oral and communicative work to supplement the text. This would not be difficult for me‚ as a native speaker‚ but would limit the usefulness of this text for those who wish to teach English but are not native speakers. The introduction to the text says that this text will be used to "acquaint [the reader] with the English words that are most frequently used". If the user of such a book is a beginning ESL
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Fear of My First Speech in Class When I thought of my first speech class‚ I was a bit frantic. After reading about professional public speakers stories on fear of public speaking and how they essentially overcame it‚ I told myself you can do it. The day of presenting my speech finally arrived and I volunteered to be the one to go first in class. I was more apprehensive about my accent than anything else. Would the audience understand me clearly? Would they be bored with what I have to say
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Introduction Oral presentation in academic context defines as “delivering an address to a public audience[1]” hence “involves explaining something to an audience which a person‚ in example professors or lecturers with expertise on a subject might explain that subject to the targeted or particular group or students. The group members can follow along and learn new skills or information as they watch the presentation[2]”. Overall‚ language is one of the main key points to begin with. Nowadays‚
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1 The Art of Public Speaking BY J. BERG ESENWEIN AUTHOR OF "HOW TO ATTRACT AND HOLD AN AUDIENCE‚" "WRITING THE SHORT-STORY‚" "WRITING THE PHOTOPLAY‚" ETC.‚ ETC.‚ AND DALE CARNAGEY PROFESSOR OF PUBLIC SPEAKING‚ BALTIMORE SCHOOL OF COMMERCE AND FINANCE; INSTRUCTOR IN PUBLIC SPEAKING‚ Y.M.C.A. SCHOOLS‚ NEW YORK‚ BROOKLYN‚ BALTIMORE‚ AND PHILADELPHIA‚ AND THE NEW YORK CITY CHAPTER‚ AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF BANKING THE WRITER ’S LIBRARY EDITED BY J. BERG ESENWEIN THE HOME CORRESPONDENCE
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Kristyn Penaloza English 1301 Section #70188 Dr. Patricia Dodd November 7‚ 2013 Influential People Most of us have influences in our lives; some can be negative and can be positive. I thank God for giving me the opportunity to have wonderful people by my side. Such Admirable people‚ intelligent and full of values‚ for example: my Mother Teresa‚ my cousin Joshua‚ and my friend Sofianos. My mother Teresa is fifty seven years old‚ born and raised in my country Panama City‚ one of the seven siblings
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Kevin Wormell Reflection Paper 1. Begin with three sections about yourself that explain your growth as a speaker over the semester. These opening statements should do the following: a. Reflect on your initial goals for the course b. Evaluate your progress‚ including unexpected areas of growth and learning c. Indicate what elements of speaking you hope to continue to improve on after the course 2. Then‚ for the majority of the paper‚ discuss your choices for your five major
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SPEECH WRITING Format of a Speech: 1. Salutation 2. Introduction of the speaker and the topic as the case may be. 3. Expression of one’s views 4. Compare and Contrast your views with others 5. Use of illustrations to impress meaningful pictures on the minds of the audience‚ and thereby‚ stimulate interest‚ highlight important ideas‚ and facilitate learning. 6. Summing up or Conclusion Purpose of a Speech: To convey information orally to a large gathering of people‚ forcefully and convincingly
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one of us knows more about the teamwork‚ the business‚ the baseball game‚ the American culture and the bond among them. I believe everyone enjoy their teamwork about this‚ especially our team members‚ because only our team did not have any native speakers and none of us knew about baseball very well. We saw the game‚ we looked around the stadium‚ we searched information from the official website of Valley cats and we asked the questions to the baseball game manager. All we want to do is to make a
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