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OC 25 Principles of Speech Writing
OC 25 Principles of Speech Writing
OC 25 Principles of Speech Writing
Group Activity
Situation: The principal asked you to be your school’s events planner. Now, your task is to organize a welcome
program for a foreign visitor.
You have ten minutes to discuss the steps you will take to organize the program. Assign one representative who will
share the output of the group for two minutes. When done with the task, answer the following questions.
1. How did you plan for the program?
2. What difficulties did you encounter while planning?
Activity . To know students background in speech writing, they are asked to fill in the following table. They can use knowledge from the previous activity.
After the students know their score of the previous activity, they are now asked to answer the following individually.
Write T if the statement is true; write F if it is false.
1. An outline determines whether your supporting ideas match your main idea or not.
2. Any speech should include an introduction, body, and conclusion.
3. In the introduction, you explain the importance of your topic by giving examples.
4. Knowing the audience and the occasion is crucial in writing a speech.
5. Rehearsing is a major requirement.
6. Speech writing is a recursive process.
7. The approach that you will use in your introduction can determine the success of your speech.
8. The primary objective of speech writing is getting the right or appropriate topic.
9. The purpose of the speech will help you identify ideas that will support your main idea or message.
10. Word choice is one consideration in writing a speech.
Analysis .Based on the activity, ask the students what would be the five principls in writing a speech.
2.After identifying the five principles, each group is assigned to discussion an assigned principle to the class. Each member is assigned to a specific
role to perform.
3.How important do you think are these principles?
Abstraction 1.The teacher now presents additional input and the summary of the lesson.
Assessment Following the speech writing process, prepare/plan a speech to be delivered in class. As you go along, make sure to fill in the details in the columns
with the ideas you have decided on. A. Conduct a general audience analysis. Use the sheet below.
A. General Audience Analysis Age Range
Male-Female Ratio
Educational Background
Educational Institution
Place of Residence (city, province, town)
Marital Status Economic Status (Household income above
30,000 or below 30,000) Language Spoken
Religious Affiliations/beliefs
B. Identify your general and specific purpose. Use the sheet below.
General Purpose
Specific Purpose
C. Identify your topic. Use any strategy learned from this lesson. Use the sheet below.
General Purpose
Specific Purpose
Topic
D. Narrow down your topic. Use any strategy learned from this lesson. Use the sheet below.
General Purpose
Specific Purpose
Topic
Specific (Narroweddown) Topic
E. Decide how you will gather data. Will you be visiting your library, browsing the web, observing, or conducting an interview or survey? Once you
have decided, gather all necessary and relevant information.
F. Identify the speech pattern you will use. Will it be biographical, categorical/topical, causal, chronological, comparison/contrast, or problem-
solution? Use the sheet below.
General Purpose
Specific Purpose
Topic
Specific (Narroweddown) Topic
Speech Pattern
G. Prepare an outline for your speech using any of the formats discussed. Use the sheet below.
General Purpose
Specific Purpose
Topic
Specific (Narroweddown) Topic
Speech Pattern
Assignment The students are going to prepare their speech.
Legend:
5– To a very great extent;
4 – To a great extent;
3– To some extent;
2 – To a little extent;
1 – Not at all
Concluding “A superior man is modest in his speech but exceeds in his actions” . -Confucius
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