Impromptu Speech

This week we presented the famouse and feared impromptu speeches. They were not as bad as we expected, at least a speak for myself. I was chosen to presento almost at the end, something which I do not enjoy alot. The topics were chosen by luck, in which there was a bag full with folded papers each with one topic. The one that I got to talk about was punctuality. As quickly as possible I came up with an interesting attention grabber, and the rest of the speech resulted easily. At the end everything resulted great, I hope I could receive a good grade since it´s the last activity for this semester. Overall I think I will get a good average grade.

Week 13 Speech

This week we had another speech assignment which was carried out by teams of two. Once I had my teammate, we decided we were going to talk about cheating on classes. We thought it was a good topic since it leads to many interesting arguments. We discussed what causes students to cheat, which were mostly because of trying to save scholarships, competitive classmates, and also simply because of those who didn’t like to study on their own.  We also discussed the consequences which were to get caught; therefore, suspended or expelled. The day before the speech I was very busy, so I didn’t have enough time to rehearse; however, I understood the topic completely so I was able to improvise. At the end everything turned out great. We gave a good speech that our classmates and teacher enjoyed. 

The power of one

Last week we say during two periods of class the movie “The power of one”, which I enjoyed a lot. The movie is about the life of an English boy who was born in Africa. Before he was born he lost his parents, and afterwards at a young age so did his mother. The lived his life being bullied. Later on he learned to be a boxer thanks to an African coach, who ended up being murdered by an Afrikaner guard. He grew up with hatred toward racist people. Long story made short, he ends up fighting for the rights of the black people. He lost a lot of good friends during this fight including her girlfriend, but that did not make him stop. This movie taught me a lot. It showed me to show perseverance at all times, and to fight for what I believe is right.