English 2 SACE Connect & Headstart SACE

In English 2, students analysed persuasive texts. Students learned about different techniques to persuade the audience including the use of style of language, body language and visual aids.

The following are extracts from different students:



LIU, Aisen

This is a report that answering the topic question how do speakers persuade their audience? First, speech is very important because if someone have some idea and he want to many other people know. He needs to speak. He need speech to tell people what he wants and what he does not want. Here are two speeches. One is the Greta Thunberg’s How dare you and the other one is Autumn Peltier’s Water speech. The purpose of Greta Thunberg’s How dare you is Greta want not only leaders but also everyone to focus on the air pollution problem. The purpose of Autumn Peltier’s Water speech is Autumn want to ask someone for help the kids who is Dehydrated Aboriginal children in Ontario, Canada because they don’t have enough water to drink and wash. They both spoke at the United Nations.

Autumn Peltier

TRAN, Jane

Besides style of language, body language was also used in their speeches. Primarily, Greta used hand movements, eye contact and facial expressions. Facial expressions are what the audience can see clearly in her speech. The purpose of facial expressions is to express feeling of speaker and engage the audiences in their message. At the beginning, Greta expressed her anger to the world’s leaders by her eyes and her eyebrows. It’s because the actions of the world leaders are unacceptable. The audiences can see that she was sad and angry. Also, she wants everyone to know that people should help solve the problem and not wait for the world leaders. Secondarily, Autumn used posture and body positioning in her speech. The purpose of this body language is to show the confidence of the speaker, using voice to convey the purpose to the audience. While watching Autumn’s speech, we can see she had a good posture. She stands tall, with shoulders back, eye contact can be used sometimes. The audiences can see her confidence when she talked about water’s problem and the importance of water. Therefore, it shows Autumn cares about her place as well as the Earth.

Greta Thunberg

ZAFRA, Sean

Use of Visual aids
Apart from their style of language and use of body language, Greta and Autumn should incorporate visual aids into their speeches. For example, Greta can include images of environmental devastation or the effects of climate change, while Autumn may display pictures depicting the conditions in Indigenous communities without clean drinking water to provide evidence of the issues they address. Additionally, Greta could use a prop symbolizing the earth's protection, and Autumn might display a container of dirty water to further emphasize the urgency of her issue. These techniques deepen the audience's understanding and awareness of the issues at hand.

Kind Regards,

Miss Maliza Huang – EAP & SACE Teacher

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