RCI Call 2nd Year Midterm PDF

RCI CALL 2ND YEAR: MIDTERM TOPIC 1: Informative Speaking Qualities of an Effective Persuasive Speech  Goal is to convey information, facts or 1. Well defined goal knowledge to an audience. 2. Clear main point  Talking a...

RCI CALL 2ND YEAR: MIDTERM TOPIC 1: Informative Speaking Qualities of an Effective Persuasive Speech  Goal is to convey information, facts or 1. Well defined goal knowledge to an audience. 2. Clear main point  Talking about people, events, process, places or 3. Sufficient supporting ideas things. 4. Logical reasoning (concrete reasons why your 4 Types of Informative Speech listeners should support your ideas) 1. Speech about objects or people 5. Effective and powerful ways to gain attention  Focuses on tangible items: gadgets, products, of your audience structure or people. 6. Compelling ideas to make your target audience feel and think 2. Speech about processes 7. Silent motives to target the basic needs of your  Focuses on process or sequence of events. audience 3. Speech about events Organizational Patterns  Focuses on event that happened, is happening, 1. A. F. O. R. E. S. T (Anecdotes, Facts, and or might happen in the future. Figures, Opinion, Rhetorical questions, Emotive Language, Superlatives, Tripling) 4. Speech about concepts  Begin your speech with a personal story,  Focuses on beliefs, knowledge , theories, observation, or experience. principles or ideas.  Provide striking statistics that can suspect your ideas. Organizational Patterns  Add in your opinion Chronological Pattern  Think of engaging rhetorical questions.  Organizes information according to the  Use of emotional appeal sequence of time.  Use of superlatives to exaggerate an idea  Each each section or paragraph represents a  Think of Rule of Three: ( trio of entities such certain amount in time and the sub points can as events or characters is more humorous, explain the important events that occurred satisfying, or effective than other numbers) within that moment.  This pattern is especially beneficial when 2. Problem-Solution writing a historical essay or a biography.  Identify the problem  Provide solution showing its practicality.​ 2. Spatial/Topical/Categorical Pattern  Goal of the pattern is to create category of 3. Problem-Cause Solution information that go together to help support  Identify the problem your original specific purpose.  Analyze the root causes of the problem  Provide solution to the problem.​ 3. Cause and Effect 4. Comparative Analysis Tips for Informative Speaking  Identify the problem;​  Analyze the audience  Present at least two solutions to the problem;  Use appropriate language and​  Explain the importance of the topic  Compare the two in terms of practicality and  Express interest in the subject material feasibility.​  Show, don’t tell  Be specific 5. Monroe’s Motivated Analysis  Grab the attention of your audience by TOPIC 2: Types of Persuasion identifying the challenge you want to confront, 1. Pure Persuasion or the problem you plan to address.​  Speaker believes that changes are the best  Establish the need or urgency to address the interest of audience. identified challenge or problem.​  Present possible solutions to your audience to 2. Manipulative Persuasion satisfy the need.​  Speaker urges listeners to engage in specific  Help your audience visualize using vivid and misleading them often to fulfill an ulterior language to convince them about the benefits motive.  they can gain from the solutions you  Graduate school - an institution where students presented.​ pursue advanced degrees.  Engage the audience to participate in promoting change through a call for action.​ Social Media  Troll - person who purposely creates offensive How the audience can be persuaded? posts to arouse anger of other social media  Speaker's credibility​ users.  Speaker's presented evidence​  Meme - a humorous image or text that is easily  Speaker's reasoning​ sent over the internet.  Speaker's use of language and style  Anonymity - state of being anonymous.  Badger - to bother someone repeatedly.  Derogatory - offensive, hurtful, disrespectful TOPIC 3: Speaking Vocabulary  Censor - to keep something from being displayed/published because of being Family and Friends offensive/immoral.  Lifelong friend - friend that you have had for  Cat fishing - act of creating a false internet most of your life. profile in order to deceive or scam someone.  Progenitors - referring to parents or ancestors  Grooming - preparing someone especially a  Should to cry on - someone to sympathize with minor in order to eventually commit a sexual you. offense.  Close-knit family - close family with common  Impressionable - describes a person who is interests. easily influenced.  Kinsfolk - relatives or family members.  Extended family - uncles, aunts, and cousins TOPIC 4: Idiomatic Expressions form part of it.  Immediate family - spouse, parents, children, Idiom grandparents.  Expression or group of words which is not  Confidant - person with whom you can share defined by the usual meanings of the words that your deepest secrets with. compose it.  Acquaintance - someone you know but noy  It is an expression peculiar to a certain language, intimately. person or a group of people.  Offspring - children or descendants  Stand the test of time - to last a long time. Importance of Idiom  Patriarch/Matriarch - the head of the family or  You can use them in your everyday clan. conversational English.  To enjoy someone’s company - to enjoy  Being familiar with idioms can help individuals spending time with someone. fit in society and professionally, as idioms are  Kindred spirits - someone who shares similar often used in everyday conversations and interests, values, or beliefs. business settings.  To hit it off - to like each other straight away. Common English Idioms School and Education  "24/7" : Twenty-four hours a day; seven days a  Sail through - not to have to work hard and to week; all the time/constantly.​ find things easy.  "A taste of your own medicine": Bad treatment  Breakthrough - a new development. deservedly received for treating other people  Paid off - was worth the effort. badly.​  Remote - not being physically there/learning  "Butterfly in my stomach": To be nervous.​ via computer.  "Cat got your tongue": Can't you speak (usually  Postgraduate - having achieved a degree and to embarrass someone) now studying for a higher qualification.  "Draw the line": To stop; to know the point  Undergraduate - someone studying a bachelor’s where something goes from okay to not degree. okay.​  Out of my depth - something is too hard.  "Easier said than done": Not as it easy as it  Grant - financial support for education that does appears to be.​ not need to be repaired.  "Finding needle in a haystack": Virtually  Student body - the collective population of a impossible to find.​ college/university.  "Fish out of water": to be out of place.  "Get something off your chest": To talk about something that has been bothering you/to admit something you have done wrong.​  "Give it a whirl": To try something.​  "In the nick of time": almost too late.​  "Let the cat out of the bag": Tell a secret.​  "Lose your marbles": To go crazy; insane.​  "Once in a blue moon": Rarely​  "Plain as day": Obvious ; clear.​  "Poke one's nose": To interfere.​  "Put your foot in one's mouth": Saying something you shouldn't have.​  "Sick and tired": To be bothered or annoyed by.​  "Sleep on it": To think about something for a while before making a decision.​  "Snake in a grass": Hidden enemy.​  "Storm in a tea cup": Great fuss about a small thing.​  "Straight from the horse's mouth": Directly from the person involved.​  "Take it easy": Relax.​  "Tip of the iceberg": The small easily visible part of a larger problem.​  "To weather the storm": To face difficulties successfully.​