#3: TED speech (Narumi)

Narumi Tsunahima

     Hello!   How do you study English?  Is it fine? In this blog, I write about my recommended internet site named 'TED'.  If you want to improve your English skill or listen to a good speech, you had better check this site. 

     TED has so many good speeches and presentations by various speakers in English.  In TED, you can see English and Japanese subtitle, it makes you understand the contents of speech easily.  There are speeches by famous people like Steve Jobs. Today I state my favorite speech: Patricia Ryan: Don't insist on English!

     The reason why I like this speech is this is a good sample for persuasive speech.

   First of all, speaker uses certain statics in her speech.  For example, ‘a language dies every 14days’.  This data is very clear and interesting for audience.  They can understand the present situation that so many languages have been died by those catchy words.

     Secondly, speaker contains some amusing anecdotes in her speech.  For instance, she talks about the story of Einstein and a real Kenyan shepherd boy.  To hear these stories, audience can see that people can make a good works without special English skill.  I think that the anecdote of great person or kind of hero has a strong power to persuade audience.  She also quotes the words from Kenyan boy that is effective too.

     Finally, the speaker’s position is persuasive.  At the beginning of her speech, she said that she has been teaching English for 30years.  Audience may think she is a specialist at English education to hear that.
  

      I want to study to make persuasive speech from TED.  Thank you for reading.