Learning goals
During Monroe's Motivated Sequence, you are going to develop your listening skills by listening to motivational speeches. You will learn to use the persuasive speech structure Monroe's motivated sequence and inversion grammar in order to develop your speaking and discussion skills.
You will show your skills by taking two tests:
A digital listening comprehension, vocabulary and grammar test
Holding a ~5 minutes motivational speech
Lessons
Learning goal: motivational speech
Time: ~5 minutes
Style: Formal - ensure that you have checked your script with regard to appropriateness of language, content and structure
Your local university has announced that they are hosting the conference TAKE ACTION!, a conference which focuses on motivation and motivational speaking. Speakers from around the world have been invited and you are one of those speakers.
You and all other speakers are going to hold motivational speeches using the renowned strategy Monroe's motivated sequence - a persuasive speech structure that was developed by assistant professor of Public Speaking Alan H. Monroe in the 1930s.
Monroe's motivated sequence is a widely used method for designing persuasive speeches or presentations, and it is particularly effective when the goal is to move the audience to action. The conference TAKE ACTION! asks that each participants designs their speech accordingly to build compelling and persuasive arguments. Once the speech is performed, each speaker will be asked questions by the audience to delve deeper into their chosen topic.
Speech checklist:
Hold a 5 minutes motivational speech with a topic of your own choice
Use and follow the speech pattern from Monroe's motivated sequence:
Attention
Need
Satisfaction
Visualisation
Action
Include inversions to improve the dramatic effect of your speech
Grammar: inversions
Inversions swaps the common subject-verb structure, which improves drama and formality. You will study four of the more common functions where inversions are used to express:
a unique situation
a short amount of time or almost not
understanding a situation
not understanding a situation
Worksheet folder
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