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Practise analysing a speech

Tomorrow, you will have to assess three speeches (your own speech is compulsory, but you
decide/choose the other two speeches) according to the rubric provided by your teacher.

Before this demanding task, I am inviting you to watch and enjoy memorable speeches subjected
to close scrutiny by Sam Leith, author of "Are You Talkin' To Me?: Rhetoric from Aristotle to
Obama".

Sam Leith (born 1 January 1974 in Paddington, London) is an English author, journalist and
literary editor of The Spectator.

After an education at Eton and Magdalen College, Oxford, Leith worked at the revived satirical
magazine Punch, before moving to the Daily Mail and The Daily Telegraph, where he served as
literary editor until 2008. He now writes for several publications, including the Financial
Times, Prospect, The Spectator, The Wall Street Journal Europe and The Guardian. He had a
regular column in the Monday London Evening Standard. and appears as a panellist on BBC
Two's The Review Show.

Leith has published three works of non-fiction, Dead Pets, Sod's Law and You Talkin' to Me?
The Coincidence Engine, his first novel, was published in April 2011. Leith succeeded Mark
Amory as literary editor of The Spectator in September 2014 and was a judge on the panel of the
2015 Man Booker Prize, won by Marlon James with A Brief History of Seven Killings.

In November 2016, Leith was named the winner of the Columnist of the Year award at The
Editorial Intelligence Comment Awards.

Here is the link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=soXbkGiGlQg

According to this video, what are the key features of a great speech?

Please write down seven ideas.

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