This document outlines a comprehensive guide on speech writing for O-level English, covering the functions, structure, and essential components of an effective speech. It includes tips on engaging the audience, as well as recommendations for writing and presenting speeches on various occasions. Two sample speech prompts with detailed responses are also provided to illustrate the application of the guidelines.

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2. Speech
● Occasions/ events
● Celebrations
● Leaders’ speeches
● Political leaders’ speeches
● Persuasive speeches
● Generals’ speeches
● Presentation speech
● Academic conferences/ key note speakers/ Ted Talks
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3. Functions of Speech
● Convince
● Inform a new policy
● Persuade to take an action
● Maintain a good will
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4. O Level Questions on Writing a Speech
● Recently you were involved in a difficult situation on your way to school.
Your best friend was with you and set a good example by helping you.
Later, in your English lesson, your teacher asks you to make a speech to
your class about the incident. Write your speech. You must include the
following:
● • the name of your friend and where the incident happened
● • details of the incident and how your friend helped you
● • how both you and your friend benefited from the event in different ways.
Cover all three points above in detail. You should make your speech
interesting and informative. Start your speech ‘Good morning, everyone.’
(O level paper, June, 2021)
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5. How to Write a Good Speech?
● 300 words limit
● Suggested Time: 35 minutes
● Marks: 30
● Weightage: 50%
● 5 paragraphs
● Introduction
● Body: Idea1
Idea 2
Idea 3
● Conclusion
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6. Introduction
● Start with “…”
● Greetings Good morning to ladies and gentlemen!
● Your introduction
● Purpose
● Hook
● Contextualize
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7. Body
● Answer 3 points of the exam questions in detail
● Bookish knowledge
● Arguments
● Validation/ Evaluation
● Build a narratology/ stance/ mindset of the audience
● Counter narrative to highlight your idea and narratology
● Give examples
● Historical references
● Poetic lines
● Statistics
● Quotes www.brainyquotes.com
● Personal knowledge
● Feelings/ emotions
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8. Conclusion
● Sum up
● Impact/ impression
● Thanks to the audience
● Questions
● Close inverted commas “…”
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9. Tips
● Interesting
● Informative
● Rhetoric and rhetorical questions
● Similes as, like
● Metaphors
● Allusions (references)
● Verses
● Historical references
● Book references
● Examples
● Slight humour
● Be courteous, no use of slangs and informal language
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10. Qualities of 27-30 Marks Answers
● Task completion Highly accurate writing, apart from very occasional slips. •
Sentence structures varied for particular effects. • Verb forms largely correct
and appropriate tenses consistently used. • Vocabulary wide and precise. •
Punctuation accurate and helpful. • Spelling accurate, apart from very
occasional slips. • Paragraphs have unity, are linked, and show evidence of
planning. Appropriateness and Content • Consistently relevant. Interest aroused
and sustained. • Tone and register entirely appropriate. • Descriptions have
well–developed images helping to create complex atmospheres. • Arguments
are well developed, logical, even complex. • Narratives are complex,
sophisticated, possibly tense, and may contain devices such as flashbacks
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11. Sample Speech Question with a Solution
● Your best friend is a popular person at school and is very successful both inside and outside the
classroom. Your friend is leaving school to move overseas. Your teacher, Mr Sami, asks you to
make a speech to your classmates on the last day of term wishing your friend goodbye and good
luck.
Write your speech. You must include the following:
• the name of your friend and where your friend is going
• why your friend is moving
• what you and your classmates will miss about your friend.
Cover all three points above in detail. You should make sure your speech is both polite and friendly.
Start your speech, ‘Mr Sami and friends...’
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12. Solution
1. Mr Sami and friends, let me begin my speech with my sincere gratitude to all of you
for your presence. However, I feel really unhappy to tell you that a very well known
figure from our school is leaving us this Friday.
2. Aayan, do you know him? Well, who does not? Mr Sami and all my respected fellows,
Akram is amidst these last days which he is spending with us. He will be leaving us this
Friday for Manchester, England. Anyways I know none of us should actually be sad for
Akram moving overseas. It will be just a physical day to day connection that would be
missing, but we all will be virtually connected way too strong. Akram would be living in
a strong long-distance friendship.
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13. Cont…
3. As you all know, we only have three months left before we pass out from school. Akram is indeed a
very intelligent student. He had planned to join his father in Manchester and continue his further
studies. I believe all of you would be praying for the best of Akram's future, and so, do all of us.
4. Whether it is Akram's academic efficiency that we would miss but his excellence in co-curricular
activities has left an indelible mark on slates of our memories. He was the captain of our winning team
and his contributions and trophies will be unforgettable for us. Moreover, he also won an international
Spellathon and enhanced name and fame of all Beaconhouse students.
5. I thank you all and especially Akram to give me your precious time and listen to me attentively.
Umm well, that's what I have to say. Thank you all once again and I would conclude my words by
saying: "Great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, impossible to forget."
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14. Recommendations
● Sarah at Harvard
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AiGdwqdpPKE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1bumPyvzCyo
TedTalks
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gOwAWpBeDSg&t=184s
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