Activity Two- Tactics of persuasive speakers

 

Within this second activity/lesson the teacher shall discuss with students the topic of tactics. These tactics include what can be used/utilised by speakers to ensure that they understand the ability of a speaker to inform and educate their audience. For ease of understanding this activity/lesson is placed in an order of sequence. This may be changed at the need/desire of the teacher.

 

Activity Two: A- Developing a basic level of tactics knowledge

 

Simply, this short activity shall give you the tools to identify and enhance what you already know about the tactics of persuasive speakers. Using a persuasive speech of the teacher’s choosing you shall use a list of persuasive techniques provided to you by you teacher to identify key tactics the speaker uses.  

 

• Your teacher shall give you approximately 10-15 minutes to go through the speech and identify skills and then ask you to contribute to a discussion on the board about the skills being used.

  Don’t feel like you haven’t found anything. Little things can be the big elements of a speech.

• Take not of any ideas others come up with that you didn’t. These skills could prove to help you with later activities and assessments.

 

Although this is a simple activity, it first provides a theoretical list to you, the learner. It has then asked you to use basic skills to investigate a speech for basic theoretical uses.

 

Activity Two: B- Watching and learning about tactics

 

In this short activity your teacher shall use one of the following examples of public speaking and the dissection it makes of tactics in order to show the key identifiers for what good public speakers can do to captivate their audience.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The teacher shall provide, following this speech/s, with a list of list of persuasive skills/tactics that can be used in a persuasive speech/argument.  Your teacher may use multiple or single videos provided above as an example of how to dissect public speaking techniques.

 

Activity Two: C- Watching and learning about tactics

 

In this short activity you need to find a speech that you dislike. It can be a speech that you disagree with, a speaker that you hate, or a topic that you distain. The point is to find a subject/topic/speaker that you feel you can become enraged about..

 

• The teacher will give to you a list of speech/persuasive techniques before you starting hunting for the speech you hate.

• Once you have found a speech you hate. Listen, watch and feel what the speech does to you and where you disagree with it.

• Identify the skills and tactics, from your list, that the speaker uses.

• Now identify how the speaker has used these skills incorrectly according to the theoretical list you have been given. Why have they not used this technique correctly? Or what technique would have been used more persuasively in its place?

 

The aim of this activity is not for you to waste time hunting down speeches that you hate and showing them to your friends. It is to be for you to use the skills that you  have and the skills that have been supplied to you to bring down another person’s argument.

Please note: The teacher shall be screening your videos to make sure they are appropriate