Comparing persuasive speeches
Students compare speeches given by James Corden (in character as Smithy from 'Gavin and Stacey') and President Obama, analysing the techniques and then replicating these in their own writing.
Tasks include:
- listing persuasive techniques used in speeches
- watching YouTube clips of Smithy and Barack Obama
- annotating scripts
- imitating the style of Smithy's speech
- completing a comparison grid for the two speeches.
All reviews
Have you used this resource?
Review this resourceGreat resource. Would be better if there was an answer's page to save time.
18/01/2021
29/11/2020
23/11/2019
08/06/2019
Thankyou. We love this. Great comparison.
09/04/2018
This is a brilliant resource and a great way of preparing my class for an assessment on persuasive writing.
Really grateful - thanks! :-)
Really grateful - thanks! :-)
13/10/2015
An excellent resource and great comparison source.
28/02/2014
I used it in class. While we in Pakistan are sadly unable to officially use Youtube, especially at school, students read out these two extracts. They found this exercise of comparing the two speeches' use of persuasive technique gave them quite an insight. thank you so much!
21/01/2014
