Speech
I was thinking of using the UN 12 old girl to teach speech, ask students to imitate in small groups of 2 to 3, or 3 to 4
I was thinking of using my daughter's speech - Amazing nature, what we can learn from it, and ask students research a few National Geographics, and write a similar speech and enter the youth group competition where you can fix your own topic. But here, we will have them talk about the same topic. Amazing nature, what we can learn from it.
And the National Geographic books, we put them all in the library for the students to borrow.
And students, all have to enter the speech competition.
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And for Teaching Form 6, I would teach oral first. how to look at the discussion topic to identify the major points asked. how to find at the points in the piece to point in your structure , way to handle the audience in the beginning (address their need, be close, personalize the topic and sell yourself) and the end, and the middle. How to take notes, (the less the better, spending more time in organizing rather than copying.
I am going to teach debate. by showing the two cute kids arguing.:http://www.google.com.hk/search?hl=zh-TW&source=hp&q=youtube%2C+two+kids+arguing&meta=&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&oq=&gs_rfai=
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Every body must join one item in junior form and one in senior form.
Writing
Crazy idea - be the first one to have 10 articles published in the SCMP letters to the Editor to get $ 1000?, second one, $ 900?, third, $ 800?, fourth, $ 700? ( book coupon) till the $100 coupon is given out.
Then, all late comers will get one hundred when they fulfill their target till the term ends.
For junior, they can write to the young post to get their articles printed, same rule applies,
but starting $500, $450,...
Listening..
listening to different versions of the same song on youtube and see how different singers address to different audience at different times or different singers express themselves at the same time. Students can play the songs in class and point out the difference they observe. eg.Wishing You Where Somehow Here Again by Rachel Barrel is different from Tabitha Webb. The later seems to be addressing to the more modern women while Rachel is addressing to the more traditional type. There is more self, more anguish in Tabby's body language and on Tabby's face, but you don't see that on Rachel. She is kind of man's dream girl, quietly waiting for her man to come to her. But Tabby seems to have her own want, own desire as a person and not the object of desire for man to fantasize on.
Rachel's: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tx5wojfcabM&feature=related
Tabby's: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TmGNJtnyf1Y
Contrast the two with an innocent, desexed version of a young girl, Hollie Steel
: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWU4_-QFo2g&feature=fvw
Students can compare Sarah Brightman's and Emmy Rossum's, this same song or any song with a lit background or an unlit background, we introduce, prescribe, list (that means we should prepare a song list, or give a few samples )
