Choose one topic of your liking and give an argumentative speech that follows the structure of an argumentative essay. These topics have been adapted from the Matura exam. At this level, you should be able to discuss all of them despite your personal opinions and interests. Alternatively, you can hold a presentation on the below-mentioned topics.
In your argumentative speech, use these expressions: STATING YOUR ARGUMENTS: · first of all, to start with, to begin with, firstly, secondly, thirdly, in addition, furthermore, moreover, besides, last but not least CONTRAST (show two things are different): · on the other hand, however, despite this, in contrast, although, while, though, in comparison with, whereas, but, instead of, in spite of, still, nevertheless, regardless SEQUENCE: · first, second (etc.), to begin with, initially, at first, then, next, from there, and then, following this, finally, lastly ADDITION: · also, again, in addition, additionally, furthermore, further, moreover, as well as, what’s more, besides this/that, EXAMPLES: · for example, for instance, a good example of this is/would be, such as, to illustrate, in particular, particularly, namely, specifically COMPARE (show two things are similar/alike): · likewise, similarly, also, in the same way, in comparison to CONCLUSION: · in conclusion, to sum up, all things considered, on balance, I am inclined to believe, It is my belief/ opinion LIST OF TOPICS:
January Environmental art February (beginning of February) Specialty museums (Different kinds of museums around the world that exhibit unusual artefacts) Vandalism of art (examples and reasons; Why do artworks incite such violence in people?) (late February) Genetics in Fiction (meddling with human or animal genome in literature and film – the underlying message, E.g. Jurassic Park, Brave New World) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetics_in_fiction April Influences on the English language (from literature, over other languages, to the Internet – new words introduced and coined from various sources, E.g. robot, frankenfood, ninja, latte, chillaxing, twerking) https://www.indiatoday.in/education-today/grammar-vocabulary/story/words-invented-by-authors-970565-2017-04-10 https://blog.oxforddictionaries.com/2016/02/11/invented-words/ https://www.hongkiat.com/blog/dictionary-words-from-internet/ https://mentalfloss.com/article/31363/35-modern-words-recently-added-dictionary https://www.bl.uk/learning/langlit/changlang/activities/lang/twentieth/loanwords.html May Presentations on books you’ve read in English (by English speaking authors) (late May) Topics and issues covered in The Great Gatsby
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Choose one speech topic or give a presentation (several students can have the same speech topic, while presentations can be held only once):
SPEECH structure: First, provide a short introduction to the topic of your choosing. The questions and statements given are here to serve as a general framework (guidelines) for structuring your speech, that is, to focus your speech on certain aspects of the topic. In addition to an introduction, your speech has to have a ‘body’ (a central part of the speech where you discuss arguments, solutions, problems, issues, provide explanations and examples or contrast too ideas depending on the topic) and a conclusion. PRESENTATIONS: February (Unit 8) 1. Female Inventors http://englishprva.weebly.com/home/presentation-u8-women-innovators (Expand: Women in STEM, NASA) 2. African American civil rights movement (prominent leaders, events, segregation, voting rights, interracial marriage, AA civil rights movement today – Black lives matter) March (Unit 8) 3. The Suffragettes and modern feminism (possible expansions: commodification of feminism [using feminism to sell products, e.g. Dove], #MeToo movement) May (Unit 10) 4. A presentation on Banksy or some other artist who works in an ‘unconventional’ medium and/or creates socially engaged art SPEECH TOPICS:
While using machine translation services (Google translate, Glosbe) can be useful at times, you should only rely on them if you are proficient in English because the margin of error is great. Some (even most) won't be able to catch all the mistakes in the translated text.
KEEP IN MIND: The English translation and the sentence in Croatian can only be cousins, sisters maybe, but never twins. There are huge differences between the two, regarding syntax and vocabulary. Some (most) expressions do not have an equivalent term in the other language so you'll have to reformulate the information/idea you want to express. Also, keep in mind that we, as well as English speakers, use a lot of figurative/idiomatic language in everyday communication and machines are notoriously bad at it. (Case in point, see image below. ) A man walks into a bar.... (the indefinite article "a" is used for both the man and the bar because this is the first mention of both nouns) The man rubs his head and says, 'Ouch! Where'd that bar come from? (the definite article "the" is used because we've already mentioned the subject of this 'joke' and our listeners know to whom we are referring) For a more detailed explanation, you can go to your workbooks (section: grammar reference and practice Unit 3) and/or watch the video below: For additional practice (and believe me, you'll need it) you click on the links below:
www.usingenglish.com/quizzes/216.html www.proprofs.com/quiz-school/quizshow.php?title=english-quiz-articles&q=1 If a British Doctor Invites You to ‘Surgery,’ Should You Be Worried?
In short, you should not be alarmed if your British medical doctor invites you to surgery. You’re not about to be cut open. In England, “surgery” is essentially the doctor’s office, a place where you can ask advice from, or receive treatment from, a doctor or dentist. While Americans reserve the term “surgery” for the cutting room, so to speak, Britons use “surgery” to mean a doctor’s office hours. There are many other differences between American and British English that might cause confusion. For example, if your American friend invites you to his graduation party held on 03/10/2020, you might miss it and show up in October while your friend's part will have been held in March. The source of this unfortunate misunderstanding is that in the US the date format is mm-dd-yyyy (i.e. they write the month before the day). Complete this online activity and pair up American with British expressions to never have issues with locating your British friend's flat who told you he lived on the second floor. www.educaplay.com/learning-resources/4231723-american_vs_british_english.html |
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