Public Speaking
For the public speaking module we had to present a speech to a woman on any topic we would like. The topic I chose to do my speech on was Pollution as Pollution is one of the biggest problems faced by the world today.Here is the speech that I presented.
My Speech
Good morning ladies and gentlemen and today I am going to be presenting a speech to you all on Pollution.
Pollution is one of the biggest challenges faced by the world today. All the countries around the world are adding more and more laws on pollution reduction. Still, governmental actions cannot guarantee the complete elimination of this problem. The main thing is to make sure everybody understands the importance of this issue and to make them respect the environment they live in.
The main types of pollution are water pollution, air pollution, soil pollution and sound pollution. All of them are harmful to people’s health. The latest technological advances have been often making people forget about the existing problems. Use of many different fertilizers and other chemicals in agriculture and other food industries can cause serious illnesses though.
Increase in the number of vehicles in cities is one of the main reasons for air pollution. The engines emit carbon dioxide and carbon monoxide which are very harmful both for health and the atmosphere.
From doing research on this speech I learned that there is a bigger problem then cars in air pollution, which I found out to be is cows. Cows burp and fart a lot and it's impacting climate change each of earths 1.6 billion cows release about 100kg of methane every year. So each cows emissions are about the same as burning 1000 litres of petrol every year.
It is about time everyone woke up and worked as a single unit against pollution. Being aware of its bad effects has to be more than enough to work on pollution reduction. Planting more and more green plants is a very good option to bring back the resource-use equilibrium. No matter what the governments does, the main action should come from people. I think this is the best way to stop the spread of pollution from destroying our planet.
Pollution is one of the biggest challenges faced by the world today. All the countries around the world are adding more and more laws on pollution reduction. Still, governmental actions cannot guarantee the complete elimination of this problem. The main thing is to make sure everybody understands the importance of this issue and to make them respect the environment they live in.
The main types of pollution are water pollution, air pollution, soil pollution and sound pollution. All of them are harmful to people’s health. The latest technological advances have been often making people forget about the existing problems. Use of many different fertilizers and other chemicals in agriculture and other food industries can cause serious illnesses though.
Increase in the number of vehicles in cities is one of the main reasons for air pollution. The engines emit carbon dioxide and carbon monoxide which are very harmful both for health and the atmosphere.
From doing research on this speech I learned that there is a bigger problem then cars in air pollution, which I found out to be is cows. Cows burp and fart a lot and it's impacting climate change each of earths 1.6 billion cows release about 100kg of methane every year. So each cows emissions are about the same as burning 1000 litres of petrol every year.
It is about time everyone woke up and worked as a single unit against pollution. Being aware of its bad effects has to be more than enough to work on pollution reduction. Planting more and more green plants is a very good option to bring back the resource-use equilibrium. No matter what the governments does, the main action should come from people. I think this is the best way to stop the spread of pollution from destroying our planet.
My review
Public Speaking is a module for us to learn how to write and deliver a speech in the correct way using different techniques.
In class we watched and discussed different speeches that covered many different topics of a varying controversy. After we had worked on how to write and deliver a speech we had to prepare for our exam.This involved writing a 3-4 minute speech which we would deliver to an examiner with the aid of a PowerPoint.
After a couple of weeks of discussing our topic, I settled on the topic of Pollution for my speech. I wrote my speech and made my powerpoint over the course of a week, and then on the 13th of March our class was picked in alphabetical order to deliver our speech. I went down to the boardroom 20 minutes before I was due to speak. In the end the speech went very well, I received an excellent grade of 87%, and a review.
Overall the module was enjoyable and I learned a lot from this module.