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Public Speaking

Does the speaker (checklist):

• Speake loudly & clearly?
• Take his time. Let his voice naturally add color and inflection?
• Use body language well?
• Keep both feet on the floor? (No sloching, swaying etc.)
• Look at his audience / interviewer?

Follow-up questions:

• Questions of fact? (What happened? What did you see? Hear? What happened next?)
• Questions of explanation? (What do you mean by.... Please explain in your own words....
• Questions exploring cause & effect: (Why did that happen? What will result?)
• Questions exploring alternatives? (Can you suggest another solution? Could anything else be done?)
• Questions challenging a position? (Why do you say.... List dis/advantages of that position.)
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Silent Letters

b: bomb, lamb, dumb, plumber, climb, thumb

c: scissors, scene

d: sandwich

g: design, foreign, sign, through

h: echo, school

k: knee, knife, know, knowledge

n: autumn, damn

p: psychology, pneumonia lung inflammation, receipt kvitto

t: castle slott, fasten, listen, whistle (some people say the "t" in: often*, soften*)

u: build

w: sword, wrap, wrestle, wrinkle, two, wrist, write, wrong

• Listen to these words & others with silent letters

Skits sketcher

• Practice a skit:

  • Santa's Dilemma

  • Spiderman

  • The Handmade Painting

  • Three Little Pigs

• Write a skit (short theatre). Perform it. Topics:  NyTsep09

  • Most Distant Place Mest avlägsna plats

  • A Decisive Meeting Ett avgörande möte

  • When I was Courageous Då var jag modig

  • An Unforgettable Birthday En oförglömlig födelsedag

Street Play

• Street Play

Talk About It

• Bingo
• Crime
• Explain why you...
• Films worth discussing:
  • Imagine A World Where Being "Gay" The Norm... 19'
• School

       

Tounge Twisters

svåruttalat uttryck, tungvrickare
Try to say these!

• Sju skönsjungande sjuksköterskor skötte sjuttiosju sjösjuka sjömän på skeppet Shanghai.
  [Seventy seven beautifully singing nurses took care of seven sea-sick seamen on the ship ""Shanghai"".]
• Sex vaxade laxar i en vaxad laxask [Six waxed salmons in a waxed salmon box]
• A box of biscuits, a batch of mixed biscuits.
  (Many Brits eat digestive biscuits kex  with their tea.)
• A Tudor who tooted a flute
  tried to tutor two tooters to toot.
  Said the two to their tutor,
  "Is it harder to toot
  or to tutor two tooters to toot?"
• Bill Wood said he would carry the wood
  through the wood if Wood said he would.
  Wood would.
• Fred fed Ted bread, and Ted fed Fred bread.
• How much wood would a woodchuck chuck
  if a woodchuck could chuck wood?
  A woodchuck would chuck as much wood
  as a woodchuck could chuck
  ​if a woodchuck could chuck wood.
• I thought a thought.
  But the thought I thought wasn't the thought
  I thought I thought.
• If a doctor doctored another doctor, 
  Would the doctor doing the doctoring
  Doctor the other doctor
  In the way the doctored doctor wanted to be doctored.
  Or would the doctor doing the doctoring
  Doctor the other doctor
  the way the doctor who doctors doctor?
• Irish wristwatch.
• Newt Neverland knew newer Knights
  never knew Norway's newest news.
• Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled pepper.
  Did Peter Piper pick a peck of pickled pepper?
  If Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled pepper,
  Where's the peck of pickled pepper Peter Piper picked?
• She saw shy sheep.
• She sells sea shells by the sea shore.
  The shells she sells sure are sea shore shells,
  For if she sells sea shore shells as sea shells,
  The shells she sells are sea shore shells.
• Six swift Swiss ships swiftly shift.

Swan swam over the pond, Swim swan swim! Swan swam back again - Well swum swan!

• The sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick. (The World's Hardest Tongue Twister?)
• There are two minutes difference
  from four to two to two to two,
  from two to two to two, too.
• Three free throws.
• Unique New York
• We surely shall see the sun shine soon.
• Which wristwatches are Swiss wristwatches?
• Which witch winds white weasel wool well?
• Yippe! Justin yielded to Jessica's "yes"
  just after yesterday's yeast yielded yet another
  yummy yeasty youghurt on yet another jet plane.

What's your excuse?

• Why were you spray-painting your neighbor’s bike?
• Why did you steal the policeman’s gun?
• Why were you crawling down the school sewers?

What's you opinion?

Do you agree or disagree?

• Abortion is murder.
• Americans know nothing about the world outside of the USA.
• Astrid Lindgren was a genius.
• Astrology is nonsense. Your life has nothing to do with stars.
• Beer should be sold in supermakets.
• Big muscles are beautiful.
• "Bingolotto" is bad for people's intellect.
• Cars should be banned.
• Charter trips are the only way to travel.
• Climate change is terrifying.
• Computer games are dangerous for children.
• Finns drink more than Swedes.
• French is a nice language that no one should speak.
• Harry Potter knows more than he lets on.
• Dogs are a man's best friend, but horses are a woman's.
• Ghosts and vampires are real.
• Girls are smarter than boys.
• The Americans invented internet so they could spy on the rest of the world.
• Japanese food is wonderful.
• Mr McG can't add.
• Mr F is a clone.
• My life will be better than my parents' lives. Mitt liv blir bättre än...
• Nowadays, it is impossible to live without internet.
• Parents and teachers should be allowed to slap children.
• People are too intolerant towards smokers these days.
• Pippi Longstocking is a good role model.
• Stockholm Culture Festival is great fun.
• Sweden should adopt the euro.
• Sweden should leave the EU.
• Swedish people are cold and boring.
• The best thing about Norway is that it is near Sweden.
• The Christmas shopping season is way overdone.
• There's going to be a third world war. Det kommer att vara ett 3:e världkrig.
• There's no such thing as fair.
• There's too much sports on TV.
• There will never be peace on earth.
• There's no life on other planets, no aliens.
• We should shut down all our nuclear plants.
• Women's Lib has gone too far.
• Working "off the books"/"under the table" is OK.

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