Reminder: Reading Exam 66% Summative - Friday 13th November
Useful sentence starters:
Structure of paragraphs and ideas
- Firstly/ First of all
- Secondly
- Thirdly
- Finally
- To sum up/ All in all
Sentence starters
- Good morning/ good afternoon 9C
- I hope that I am going to persuade you all into agreeing with me that ______ is the worse thing in the whole world.
- I would like to put ... in Room 101 because not only is it ____ and ____, but it is also ________.
- First of all, we all know it is true that ...
- As far as I´m concerned, ...
- The real problem is that/ the real issue is that ...
- In my opinion, ...
- I believe that ....
- Undoubtedly/ without a shadow of a doubt ______ should go into Room 101 because ...
- Also/ moreover/ in addition (for adding extra reasons)
- Therefore/ as a result/ consequently (to explain the REASON)
- As is often the case,
- __________ is one of the most heinous things that exists
- On one hand ... on the other hand ...
- The fact that ...
-The lack of ...
Knocking down the other side of the argument
- I know that some people claim that ...
- However, some people argue that .... Yet, I disagree because ...
- Many people will disagree with me, but I think ...
Criteria
C
üContent
should be varied,
interesting
and developed
üYou should use all 10 persuasive techniques and actually be persuasive
üYou should have AT
LEAST 3 different reasons why you want to put this thing in Room 101
üIt should last about 3 –
4 minutes (500 – 600 words)
Criteria
D
üLanguage should be grammatically accurate with very few errors
üYou should use
a wide range of idiomatic vocabulary
üSpeech should be clear and easy to follow
üAccent clear
