thing is that I love to meet new people because having friends is great, but I am just so bad at making small talk. I have only performed one speech in my whole life and it made me very nervous. My speeches are always prepared well in advance and are very well organized, but I have a very hard time doing the things that I have planned to do during the speech, such as hand gestures and eye contact. I definitely need to work on my writing skills as well as my speaking skills. My first goal that I
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Name: _____________________________________________ Date: ____________________________ Grade Level________ Teaching Context | Curriculum or Content Area: | #_______ of students in my class, of which _______ are ELLs | My ELLs’ linguistic and cultural background(s): | My ELLs’ level(s) of English Proficiency: WIDA ACCESS Spring 2013See WIDA “Can Do” descriptors to help connect proficiency level with ACCESS scores | Student(s): | Reading | Writing | Speaking | Listening | Literacy[Reading
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Children enjoying a bilingual environment run the risk of being isolated by the host society or of being teased by their peers when speaking in the foreign language. This teasing can have a detrimental effect on the self-esteem of the child. Speech impediments in children, whether it is of a physical nature or difficulties in the pronunciation of the language becomes more difficult to remedy in bilingual children as each language has to be addressed individually. Conclusion: Tip: The
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traveling around are the things our classmates will be interested. We used Panopto to record our speech as the assignment required. None of my group members used it before but Rohit (our tech guy) took the responsibility to doing all the technology integration besides his own speech part. I am glad that we have actually intended to imagine that what if someone fails to record his or her speech; therefore, we record our individual part separately and combine them together. Hence, even if someone
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by the National FFA Organization is speech contests, which gives its members valuable life skills. Students gain a variety of skills from participating in these contests that help them to be successful throughout school and future careers. FFA speech contests teach students study and memorization skills, how to present themselves in front of an audience, how to think on their feet, and how to be confident in everyday situations. Preparation for these speech contests teach research and memorization
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Many people are less than enthusiastic about speaking in front of large crowds primarily because they are nervous. Unfortunately, there are a few instances when they are forced to face their fears and one of them is the passing of a friend or family member. There will be a great deal of stress already controlling events which is why the person being asked to say a few words should probably consider looking at a few eulogy examples. This is meant to be a guideline to put the writer at ease and make
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I. Name and background of presenter. What do they do for a living? Where do they do it? What is their education and experiences? Why were they asked to present this lecture? (Approximately 350 words page). Andrew Solomon gave this TED x Met talk to an audience at an independent event. Solomon is 53 years old and was born and raised in New York City. He is a writer and lecturer on culture, psychology, and politics. He is currently a Professor of Clinical Psychology at Columbia University. He is
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The article Lexical-Semantic Organization in Children With Specific Language Impairment written by Li Sheng and Karla K. McGregor wanted to determine whether children with specific language impairment (SLI) show deficits in lexical-semantic organization, and if so, whether these types of deficits were corresponding with their delay in vocabulary size and whether the deficits affect all children with SLI (Sheng, 2010 p. 147). They started off the study by testing the hypothesis that children with
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Persuasive Speech Outline Introduction How many pieces of paper do you go through in a semester? 50? 100? 1000? Now, how many of you throw it in the trashcan when they through with all of them? What about at lunch – how many times do you get a bottled drink to take around school, and end up throwing it right into the trash can when you’re done with it? This is a problem on a very large scale. There are too many people who simply don’t recycle, and this is slowly destroying our planet. I would
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What makes a great speech? A great speech requires passion, emotion, and a firm belief on what’s being said. Anyone can make a speech, but creating a difference through your words, through your body language and through your emotions is what makes it great. Martin Luther King Jr made a change in boycotting black society, Abraham Lincoln abolished slavery and Emma Watson opened the UN’s eyes on the oppression that women face every day. But I’m not going to talk about them. Rather than a passive speaker
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