Gender Equality

1. Speeches are to inform, share, support or persuade your audience on certain topics/topic given to you in section 1- directed writing. 2. Beware that you have to write exactly how you speak before your audience. In fact, it is the easiest in its writing style. 3. Start with opening your speech marks.” “,or ‘ ‘ both are fine. 4. Begin with greeting your audience.Keep in mind the type of speech being delivered (formal or informal). Eg. ’Good morning friends’, ‘hello’, ‘greeting my dear fellow peers’, ‘good evening ma’am, respected teachers’ e.t.c. 5. A greeting should be followed by a brief introduction. E.g. ’My name is Sara and I am representing my class…’,’I am a student of O-level and my name is Awab’,’I am speaking on behalf of my staff members or I hereby speak on behalf of my residential community’ e.t.c.(depending on the type of speech, either formal or informal). 6. Do not confuse it with a debate. (I happen to give a question on speech writing to my class, many students involved in debates, they commenced their speeches on the same lines as done in debates’ ‘The motion of the house is…’). 7. Proceed by informing the audience about the purpose of your speech. What is the speech about? ‘I am here with you to discuss/inform/share/ask your views about the raising rates of the edibles at our school canteen’, ‘I would/will like talk on increasing issues on misconduct of my fellow peers on campus’ e.t.c. 8. Speech should be written in a way as it must be spoken. Thus, it is the only genre in directed writing where the candidate is permitted to experiment with the pattern of sentence structure (SVO) used as a standard in English language. e.g. ‘ On behalf of my class I would like to speak on some imperative issues never discussed before.’ could be written as ‘There are some imperative issues, never been discussed, ever, before here on campuson, so on behalf of my entire class, I would like to speak on those, today’. 9.