英语演讲的艺术week-three

• Internet fraud
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Jade
•
Kites
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Leonardo da Vinci
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Mount Tai
• Neo-Confucianism • Olympic Math • Peking Opera • Qiu Jin • Robots • Study abroad • Temple of Heaven • United Nations • Volunteering • Women’s gymnastics • Xuankong Si • Yoga • Zoos
2. Changchun: The Movie City of China
3. A Tour of Nanhu Lake
4. Migraine Headache: You Can Live With It
Topics You Want to Know More About
• Make your speech a learning experience.
nine columns as
follows: People,
Places, Things,
Events,
Processes,
Concepts,
Natural Phenomenon, Problems, Plans
and Policies.
• List in each column the first four or five items that come to mind. Result:
• People: my familyBiblioteka Baidu Mao Zedong; Yang
Liwei; Guo Jingjing.
• Places: my hometown; my province; Three Gorges; Dujiangyan.
• Things: cell phones; MP3; movies; cartoons.
• Avoid political topics.
Brainstorming for Topics
• Brainstorming: a method of generating ideas for speech topics by free association of words and ideas.
• This array of topics is from A to Z. • It just happened naturally. • There’re literally endless
possibilities for speech topics-from A to Z.
Choosing a Topic
• Events: graduation; marriage; Olympic Games; World Cup.
• Think a topic, draw on your own knowledge and experience.
• Here are a few examples of topics based on your personal knowledge:
1. How to Have a Successful Job Interview
• Procedures: 1. Personal inventory 2. Clustering 3. Internet search
Personal Inventory 盘点法
• Make a quick inventory of your experiences, interests, hobbies, skills, beliefs, and so forth.
• A subject about which you already have some knowledge or expertise but not enough to prepare a speech without doing additional research.
• Want to explore for the first time.
• Topic: the subject of a speech.
• First step in speechmaking.
• The topic is determined by: occasion, audience, speaker’s qualifications.
Two Broad Categories of Topics
• Jot down anything that comes to mind. • From this list may come a general
subject area out of which you can fashion a specific topic.
Clustering 聚类法
• Take a sheet of paper and divide it into
• Subjects about which you hold strong opinions and beliefs, such as:
National or international concerns such as global warming, media violence, or stock-market regulations.
Selecting a Topic and a Purpose
A sample of the topics:
• Acupuncture 针灸
• Breast cancer
• Computer
• Du Fu
• Environment
• Free trade
• Genetic engineering
• Hainan island
• Subjects you know a lot about. • Subjects you want to know more about.
Topics You Know a Lot About
• Most people speak best about subjects with which they are most familiar.