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LESSON 5: PERSUASION IN SPEECH

You should by this point be familiar enough with the various tools of persuasion to be adequately equipped to create a highly convincing advertising campaign. Before we end off however, it is important to remember that the oral presentation component is central to the completion of your tasks, this being an oral assessment. We have thus engaged the President of the United States of America, Mr Barack Obama himself, a highly charismatic and engaging public speaker, to provide our students with an example of a political speech to analyse and critique.

Please complete this worksheet and upload it in the SUBMISSIONS page.



Anyway if you're interested, here's a full video of his speech.

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