Language skills: public speaking

studia pierwszego stopnia

English Philology

semestr 5

studia niestacjonarne

profil akademicki

języki obce
obowiązkowe

Realizowany w sali

Language skills: speaking and writing 2 successfully completed

ECTS points in relation to student’s duties:

total number of ECTS: 2

0,5 ECTS – 15 hours: participation in classes

1,5 ECTS - 45 hours preparation to classes with direct participation of the teacher

Course description:

The course offers an opportunity to develop and practice textual analysis skills as well as the opportunity to develop oral and written skills using rhetorical and oratory devices with requireed effect on the audience.

Course objectives:

The objective of the course is to explore strategies for analysing public speeches as texts by learning how to identify commonly used rhetorical devices and be familiar with how they construct meaning. The fundamental skill to be practiced will involve analysing how context helps shape the language and meaning of speeches.

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Course content:

1. Key Features: An introduction to rhetorical devices. Appeal in speeches: ethos, pathos and logos. Famous speeches in the English language and their key features.

2. Contexts: analysing cultural, political and social contexts of selected public speeches

3. Putting it into practice: developing a written response using PEEL (writing solid introductions and developing body paragraphs)

4. Written commentary in class assessment and final reflections

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Methods of instruction/ forms of classroom activity:

power point presentations, group discussion, pair-work & small group activities (in breakout rooms when online), individual reflective activities, analytical tasks related to the texts; ICT tools - MS Teams

Reading list:

A variety of public speeches which can be accessed in the public domain are to be used such as:

-President Obama 'This is your victory'

-President Kennedy 'Ask not what your country can do for you'

-Winston Churchill 'We shall fight on the beeches'

-Queen Elizabeth I - Tilbury Speech

-Tony Blair: eulogy at Princess Diana's funeral

-Martin Luther Kind - 'I have a dream'

-Robert F. Kennedy 'Statement on the assassinaion of Martin Luther King'

-Abraham Lincoln 'Gettysburg Address'

-William Wilberforce 'Abolirtion Speech'

-Chief Joseph 'Surrender Speech'

-Susan B. Anthony 'Women's right to the suffrage'

-Gandhi 'Quit India'

-Nelson Mandela 'A cause for which I am prepared to die for'

-Subhas Chandra Bose 'Give me blood and I will give you freedom'

-Barack Obama 'Yes we can'

-Teaching heads 'Chocolate Biscuits'

- William Faulkner 'Nobel Prize in Literature acceptance speech'

Further reading

'When they go low, we go high' by Philip Collins

'Speeches that Changed the World' by Simon Sebag Montefiore

'You Talkin' to Me? by Sam Leith

'The Penguin Book of Modern Speeches' Edited by Brian MacArthur

Learning outcomes acc to PQR 2019

Knowledge

1. The student knows and understands the main methods of analysis and interpretation of culture products (pubic speeches), in the studied disciplines, including theories and research schools within English philology (k_W04/P6S_WG)

Skills

2. The student is able to recognize different types of public speech texts in order to perform their critical analysis and assess their relevance and impact in cultural processes (k_U02/P6S_UW).

3. The student is able to create English-language public speech texts and prepare elaborate presentations relating to their English studies of public speeches using formal sources (k_U04/P6S_UK).

4. The student is able to use English at the level of C1 of the Common European Framework for Languages (k_U05/P6S_UK).

Social Competences

5. The student is ready to critically evaluate and solve problems arising from the implementation of professional tasks such as public speaking (k_K02/P6S_KK).

6. The student is ready to participate in various forms of cultural life (k_K04/P6S_KO).

Forms of evaluation of learning outcomes:

1. Active participation - 20% of the final grade (outcome 1,2,3,4,5,6)

2. Performing communication tasks (e.g. giving a presentation) - 80% of the final grade (outcome 3,4,5,6) / Wykonywanie zadań komunikacyjnych (np. prowadzenie prezentacji)

Criteria of evaluation:

60% = 3

80% = 4

100% = 5

Pass at the 60% of the final grade