8 Self-evaluation Tick the buttons on the scale to evaluate your language skills. ➀ I can do it easily and correctly. ➁ I can do most of it but I am not fully sure. ➂ I need to have a look at some things again. ➃ I should go over the whole chapter again. ➄ I need to ask my teacher for help. If you do the tasks again at a later stage, you can add a tick to show your progress. Speaking: Have a Say Day Do some research and collect information about this special day. Then prepare a brief presentation. You can use traditional and/or digital sources of reference. Include the following aspects: • intentions behind this day • history • effects Writing: A report You have just read the extract from Looking for Alibrandi on pages 111–112. Write a report to your school library in which you explain why you would like them to buy the book. In your report you should • explain how you came across the book, • outline why you found it interesting, • express what you expect from the rest of the book. Divide your report into sections and give them headings. Write around 250 words. Reading: Matthew McConaughey’s motivational speech Read the extract from Matthew McConaughey’s motivational speech, which he gave at the graduation ceremony of the University of Huston, Texas, in 2016. Complete the sentences (1–6) using a maximum of four words. Write your answers in the spaces provided. The first one (0) has been done for you. I have two older brothers. One was in high school in the 1970s. And this was a time when a high school certificate (GED) got you a job, and a college degree was exceptional. My other brother was in high school in the 80s. And by this time, the GED wasn’t enough to guarantee employment. He needed a college degree. And if you got one, you had a pretty good chance of getting the kind of job you wanted after you graduated. I graduated from high school in 1988 and got my college degree in 1993. And that college degree did not mean much. It was not a free pass to do anything. So what does your college degree mean? It means you got an education. It means you have more knowledge in a specific subject. It means you may have more expertise in what your degree is in. But what’s it worth in the job market out there today? We know the market for college graduates is more competitive now than ever. Now, some of you already have a job lined up. But for most of you, the future is probably still pretty fuzzy. You’ve just completed your scholastic educational curriculum in life, the one that you started when you were five years old in kindergarten up until now, and your future may not be any clearer than it was five years ago. 1 ➀ ➁ ➂ ➃ ➄ I can give a prepared straightforward presentation on a familiar topic within my field which is clear enough to be followed without difficulty most of the time, and in which the main points are explained with reasonable precision. (B1) 2 ➀ ➁ ➂ ➃ ➄ I can express myself clearly and without much sign of having to restrict what I want to say. (B2) 3 Now you can • Talk about speeches and presentations. • Listen to texts and take notes. • Talk about the way in which a speech is delivered. • Recognise rhetorical strategies. • Understand and rephrase phrasal verbs. 112 Famous speeches Check-out Nur zu Prüfzwecken – Eigentum des Verlags öbv
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