Informative+Speech

WEEK 7&12 PREPARATION SPEECH OUTLINE (Informative & Persuasive Speeches) (10% - 20 marks)


 * Instructions:**
 * 1) Submit the outline during the presentation day.
 * 2) Type using font size 12, Times New Roman.
 * 3) This template is to be used for informative and persuasive speeches.

**Content: 15 marks**


 * Title (1/2 mark**): Live With Less
 * General purpose (1/2 mark**): To inform.
 * Specific purpose (1/2 mark):** To inform others about the problems related to the students' wasteful behaviour in daily life.
 * Central idea (1/2 mark):** The problems are students are churning out a huge amount of polystyrene waste, disposable fork and spoon waste and plastic bags waste. Next is the unsorted rubbish and excessive usage of electricity.

**I.** **INTRODUCTION**

Attention getter (2 marks): I'll show an awakening video. [|Terracycle Video]

A. There. See how much wastes have we all made. Things we used often like polystyrene, plastics bags, bottles, aluminium can, and even the disposable fork and spoon from cafeteria --- its all being thrown out everyday. If we continue living like this, the world will become worse. Don't you think we need to do something? We need to save our planet! But, how are we gonna do it? B. Now here, I got a clear example from Oprah.com about trying to live with less. They're trying to change habits to be less wasteful. Yes, it is hard indeed but you can save a lot of money. Oprah's company, Harpo used about thousands paper cups a day which they use for water, coffee and tea. You count yourself how much paper cups for a month. They made a "No Paper Cup Day" and it is a success. Every single paper cup was locked up and there were no riots at the coffee machines. Everyone bring their own mug. See how easy it is? [|Oprah.com]

Transition to body of speech (1/2 mark): Now, let see on our problems. What we're wasting on in our daily life?

**II.** **BODY**

__** A. Main-point (1/2 mark): **__ i. Supporting details (2 marks): Transition (1/2 mark): Next, I'll go to the second wasteful habits that most of us did this.
 * Students churning out a huge amount of polystyrene, plastic bags and disposable spoon and fork waste.
 * Problem -- Its already a norm where people buy food packed in polystyrene. They use for their meal every breakfast, lunch and dinner. Cafeteria goes through about 800 polystyrene a day—or 24000 polystyrene a month. It is not a made-up, fake fact. I've asked the cafeteria's owner myself. This is just numbers for students living in KK1 and KK3. It'll be a huge quantity if considering the cafeteria from boy's house (KK2 and KK4) and cafeteria at Pekan campus. This is not including the plastic bags, disposable spoon and fork and others. Some students even double their waste by "double taking". Don't you think cafeteria is spending too much on those things?
 * Solution -- Students should bring their own tupperware and also fork and spoon. Well obviously, most of students have their tupperware, steel fork and spoon. But I'm not so sure what about boys. For those who have on their own, just use them. Lets be more friendly to earth. As for the Chinese, they can even bring chopsticks while Malay and Indian can eat using their hands. Easy right? But I bet you'll not agree with the tupperware part.

__** B. Main-point (1/2 mark): **__ i. Supporting details (2 marks): Transition (1/2 marks) : As you all realized the waste we made each single day, how the ignorance are, lets move on to the final habits.
 * Trash are not sorted.
 * Problem -- All type of trash were thrown out in a single big bin. Be it recyclable or disposable, all the trashes are being mixed up in one garbage bin. It is not being managed to separate the trash according to their type. As a clear example. The hostel we lived in, spesifically my block. When it comes to the end of year, people will throw out all their notes papers, test papers and even exam papers.They don't slightly care whether those papers can be recycled or not. As long as their place aren't messed up, its just fine. Now, this is the habits that we have to change.
 * Solution -- Part the trash type. Make a bin for recyclable things and make another bin for domestic waste such as food leftover. For every room there must be at least two trash bags. One for things like bottles, bread wrap, papers and others. While the another one should be for food leftover and things that cannot be recycled. The cleaner should play important role here too. As they are the one who responsible for managing the trash, they should not mix up the trash that students had already parted up.

C. Main-point (1/2 mark):  i. Supporting details ((2 marks):  Transition to conclusion (1/2 mark): So what have we looked at so far? Well I had discussed with you the wasteful habits among students here. Now, let’s carry on to the final part.
 * Students use excessive electricity.
 * Problem -- The laptop was left running through the night with the power on. The fan and the light were also left switched on from day until night. I had a senior who is exactly like this. When they left their room, they don't switch off these electrical appliances. They just don't have the responsible sense to think about the money paid for the electricity. Another example is my ex-roommate. She is scared of the dark. So, at night, she will stop us from switching off the light. And so the lamps are opened through the night. This case is normal among girls I bet.
 * Solution -- Students should stop from having this wasteful habits. Sometimes, students didn't do it purposely. They were just like feel sleepy and want to take some nap. But then, they're asleep until the morning. How to solve it? Just change the laptop settings to hibernate itself if being left for more than an hour perhaps. So, the laptop won't be running all the night. Next, for the girls who are afraid of the darkness, they can just buy the night lamp that use only a little amount of electricity. It suits just right.

III. CONCLUSION

A. Summary of main points (1 mark): Ask for audience to realize this simple things. Be a less wasteful person. B. Memorable final statement/Call for action (1 mark): Want not, Waste not.

Thank you for listening so patiently.


 * Language: 5 marks**


 * 5 marks || Excellent control of language, effective and varied vocabulary, and hardly any grammatical errors. ||
 * 4 marks || Confident control of language, appropriate and varied vocabulary, and few grammatical errors. ||
 * 3 marks || Satisfactory control of language and vocabulary, and some grammatical errors. ||
 * 2 marks || Poor control of language, limited vocabulary, and major grammatical errors. ||
 * 1 mark || Very poor control of language, limited vocabulary, and major grammatical errors making comprehension difficult. ||