(
课件网) Write a speech music make us strong in mind relax and refresh ourselves give us strength and hope offer us comfort and company relieve our stress/pressure/pain inspire us to be positive and optimistic help us overcome all the difficulties bring us happiness/joy/relief calm us down …… Activity1: How can music impact your life How do you interpret this sentence Activity2: Observing and Predicting What happened to her Did music help her Activity3: The structure of a speech Greet the audience Introduce the topic ...Personal experience ...Personal feelings Close the speech Thank the audience in the end Para.1 Good morning! My name is Sarah Williams. It's an honour to be here and to share with you the story of how music has had an impact on my life. It’s a great honor for me to do… It’s my honor to do… How to introduce the topic Activity4: Careful reading Para2. Have you ever faced a time when things looked dark and you had no hope at all Two years ago, I was told I had a serious disease which was difficult to cure. My body ached all the time and thus | thought I didn't have much longer to live. I was very afraid and I felt so alone and discouraged. Then one day, I had to go through a two-hour medical treatment. The doctor wanted me to relax so he had me listen to some music, and one of the songs was “Happy". The song made me feel so much better that from then on I began to listen to music all the time. John A. Logan said, "Music is the medicine of the mind. "And it's true. Music helped me recover. What was Sarah's problem How did music help her during her difficult time Para.3 Music gave me happiness. When I listened to music, it made my spirits fly like a kite in the wind. Music gave me strength and brought me relief. It was the rock l leant on to become strong and to get through those hard times. Moreover, music gave me hope and a sense of satisfaction. It became my best friend. It spoke words of encouragement to the deepest part of my being. What’s the power of music Para.4 Of course, I hope none of you have to go through the same kind of suffering that I did. At the same time, we all go through various periods when we feel sad or alone. During those times, music can help you in the same way that it helped me. I hope all of you will somehow begin to treasure music and make it a part of your life. Her advice to others is to use music to help when you have problems. What is her advice to others Activity5: Study the language features To make the speech touching, the speakers often use rhetoric devices to let their speeches more powerful. Rhetorical devices Simile(明喻) Metaphor(隐喻) be like... be: is/was... Rhetorical question(设问) ...... Personification(拟人) The sky weeps（哭泣）. Quote(引用) ...as ... says, “......” Repetition(重复) It gave me.... It gave me.... It brought me.... features Match the names of rhetorical devices to the lettered sentences in the speech. metaph ... ...
