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Subject name: The Art of Public Spea

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Welcome!!
 TODAY’S SESSION:
01 BRIEF INRORMATION ABOUT
J.K.ROWLING & HARVARD UNIVERSITY

02 THE CENTRAL IDEAS AND THE MESSAGE

OF THE SPEECH

03 THE IMPRESSION AND THE FEELING

04 SPEAKER’S RESPONSIBILITIES
 WHO IS J.K.ROWLING ?

HARRY POTTER JOANE ROWLING THE CASUAL FANTASTICS

HARRY POTTER
VANCANCY BEATS AND
THE BEST AUTHOR
FILM SERIES SELLINGBOOK THE CRIME WHERE TO FIND
SCREEN- THEM
SERIES NOVEL
WRITER
 Timeline
FROM 1982-2007
Age: 42
There were 11
Age: 17 Age:30 millions copies of
She was rejected She started writing her new book, on
from college. her first novel. her first day of
release.
1993-
1982 1995 2000 2007
1994
Age:28-29 Age:35
She was a single, She released 4
unemployed divorce books and became
living almost below the the author of the
poverty line. year.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY
based in Cambridge and Boston, Massachusetts.

A private Ivy League Research University

ABOUT HAVARD
UNIVERSITY
• The oldest institution of
higher learning in the United
States (established in 1636).
• Harvard has more than
360,000 alumni around the world
• Notable people: George W.
Bush, Barack Obama, Ban Ki-
moon, Mark Zuckerberg...…
J.K.ROWLING COMM
ECENMENT ADDRESS
 The Central Ideas

01 The Benefits of Failure

The Importance of
02
Imagination

A Powerful Speech
 5 Messages from the Commencement Speech

1
♥ Other people will
try to influence you

♥ Passing
4 ♥ Imagination is

2
examinations does crucial in life
not determine your
success

5 ♥ Your friendship is
♥ No one likes failure,
and we all fail 3 important and
should be valued
 IMPRESSION AND FEELING
♥ LONG SPEECH BUT
WORTH READING
AND LISTENING 2. to understand or
think of
somebody/somethi
ng in a particular
♥ PROVIDING PRATICAL way.
ADVICE NOT
♥ TO PERCEIVE2 THE
1
CONDESCENDING
FAILURE IS A
1.behaving as SIGNIFICANT POINT
though you are
♥ IMAGINATION MAKES
more important
&more intelligent YOUR WORLD
than other people. BECOME BETTER
 SPEAKER’S RESPONSIBILITIES IN THE SPEECH

MATAIN HIGH REJECT ENRICH TAKE EVERY

11 2 3 4
ETHICAL LISTENERS’ LIVES SPEECH SERIOUSLY
STEREOTYPES
STANDARDS
She organized
She’d prepared
Instead of wasting the distinctive emotional
rigorously the Despite her rich
graduates’ time by a lessons by using
relatable and variety of listeners,
monotone speech, she varied paragraphs to
reliable stories to she still could meet
told them about her own describe its importance
encourage the their needs and
life experience and how and relation.
graduates to do what interest through her
they want to cope with the problems
speech.
to do. (failure).
1.MAINTAIN “Half my lifetime ago, I was striking an uneasy
balance between the ambition I had for myself,
HIGH ETHICA and what those closest to me expected of me.”
LS
STANDARDS “What I feared most for myself at your age was
not poverty, but failure.”

“I shall never forget the African torture victim...Every

day, I saw more evidence about the evils humankind
will inflict on their fellow humans,
to gain or maintain power. I began to have night-mares,
literal nightmares, about some of the
things I saw, heard, and read.”
 2. REJECT
STEREOTYPES
“...not only has Harvard given me an
extraordinary honor, but the
weeks of fear and nausea I have endured
at the thought of giving this
commencement address have made me
lose weight.”
 Unlike any other creature on this planet,
3. ENRICH humans can learn and understand,
LISTENERS’ without having experienced. They can
LIVES think themselves into other people’s
places.”

“Imagination is not only the uniquely human

capacity to envision that which is not, and
therefore the fount of all invention and
innovation. In its arguably most transformative and
revelatory capacity, it is the power that
enables us to empathize with humans whose
experiences we have never shared.”
 Q&A SESSION
Website
You can find the text of her speech
on the Internet.

YouTube
There are many videos recorded
on YouTube so You can easily
watch and enjoy her
commencement speech.

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Thank you!!!
Thank you