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BEL 492

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Speech 1

Student’s name : Nur Nadirah binti Mohd Din

Faculty/ Group : Business Management (BM2223A)

Lecturer’s name : Madam Suchitra

Title : ACID RAIN

Order : Topical Order

General Purpose : To inform

Specific purpose : Acid rain is harmful to environment that it can damage everything over a period of time because it makes the living things in the environment die.

Central idea : To inform my audience about the causes, effects and what can be done to reduce of acid rain.

Introduction

I. What would you do if you knew poison was falling from the sky? What would you say if you knew that we were a big part in causing the deaths of many animals, forests, and people? How would you react if I told you that this morning you contributed to atmosphere desolation?

II. Well, get ready to do, say and react because I’m going to tell you that you are, I am, and everybody contributed to acid rain, a deadly and a real accident.

III. But not all hope is lost. We can help by learn and teach about the effects on our environment from more become harmful.

IV. Based on ‘Robert Angus Smith - the scientist who first used the term acid rain - wrote:

a. "It has often been observed that the stones and bricks of buildings crumble more readily in large towns where much coal is burnt.... I was led to attribute this effect to the slow but constant action of acid rain."

V. Today I would like to inform you about the causes, effects and solution to be taken of acid rain that can affected to us and environment.

(Transition:Let’s we start with the causes of acid rain.)

Body

I. Before that, what is acid rain? Acid rain is rain consisting of water droplets that are unusually acidic because of atmospheric pollution. Acid rain also called acid deposition. Acid deposition describes a process that is a combination of wet and dry deposition.

a. Wet deposition is any form of



References: I. http://gabriellafranco.com/blog/2007/05/acid-rain-essay.html II. http://www.writework.com/essay/effect-and-causes-acid-rain-and-can-done-reduce-those-causes III. http://geography.about.com/od/globalproblemsandissues/a/acidrain.htm

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