English Oral Communication
You are the president of the Parent-Teacher Association (PTA) at an urban school. At the last association meeting, many parents expressed their concern about the poor performance of their children, particularly in Mathematics, science and the English language. They felt that the school should work harder towards improving the teaching and learning of these subject. The PTA could assist but the association does not have enough funds (money) to carry out its projects for the school. you wish to speak about this problem and suggest some solutions at the forthcoming meeting.
(a)Which of the following speech types will best describe your speech: informative, Persuasive, negotiation, or argumentative speech? Give reason for your answer.
Persuasive speech will be the best speech type in this situation, because persuasive speech aims to influence the audiences’ attitude, value or behavior, and convince your audience to take action. In this case, the PTA can conduct a meeting, in purpose of fund raising for the project or conduct the corresponding campaign, so the speech must aim to persuade the audience to help out in this project to raise enough funds to carry out the project.
(b)Briefly outline the problem that the PTA needs to address. What actions can the members of the association take?
The problems that PTA needs to address are: 1. The poor performance of the students in the subjects of mathematics, science, and the English language. 2. Moreover the association does not have enough funds to carry out its projects for the school.
In order to resolve the above problems, the most effective way to improve the performance of subject mathematics, science, and English language is to encourage students to participate in the tuition classes on the above subjects, and participate in the extracurricular activities such as mathematics club, English club, and science club.
The PTA could conduct a meeting to deliver the information to audience and
(a)Which of the following speech types will best describe your speech: informative, Persuasive, negotiation, or argumentative speech? Give reason for your answer.
Persuasive speech will be the best speech type in this situation, because persuasive speech aims to influence the audiences’ attitude, value or behavior, and convince your audience to take action. In this case, the PTA can conduct a meeting, in purpose of fund raising for the project or conduct the corresponding campaign, so the speech must aim to persuade the audience to help out in this project to raise enough funds to carry out the project.
(b)Briefly outline the problem that the PTA needs to address. What actions can the members of the association take?
The problems that PTA needs to address are: 1. The poor performance of the students in the subjects of mathematics, science, and the English language. 2. Moreover the association does not have enough funds to carry out its projects for the school.
In order to resolve the above problems, the most effective way to improve the performance of subject mathematics, science, and English language is to encourage students to participate in the tuition classes on the above subjects, and participate in the extracurricular activities such as mathematics club, English club, and science club.
The PTA could conduct a meeting to deliver the information to audience and