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1. Answer the Following Questions.
- Do you have to give a speech?
- How do you feel about speaking in public?
- How do you prepare?
2. Watch the video
3. Answer the Following Questions
- How does the speaker feel?
- Why?
- How does he resolve this problem?
4. Complete this Cloze Text.
In this ______ hour, perhaps the most fateful in history, I send to every household of my ______, both at home and overseas, this message, spoken with the same depth of feeling for each one of you as if I were able to cross your ______ and speak to you myself.
For the second time in the lives of most of us, we are at ______. Over and over again, we have tried to find a peaceful way out of the differences between ourselves and those who are now our ______, but it has been in ______. We have been ______ into a conflict, for which we are called, with our allies to meet the challenge of a principle which, if it were to prevail, would be fatal to any civilized order in the world.
It is a principle which permits a state in the selfish ______ of power to disregard its treaties and its solemn _______, which sanctions the use of force or threat of force against the sovereignty and independence of other ______. Such a principle, stripped of all disguise, is surely the mere primitive doctrine that might is right, and if this principle were established throughout the world, the freedom of our own country and of the whole British Commonwealth of nations would be in ______.
But far more than this, the peoples of the world would be kept in ______ of fear, and all hopes of settled peace and of the security of justice and liberty among ______, would be ______. This is the ultimate issue which ______ us. For the sake of all we ourselves hold dear, and of the world order and peace, it is ______ that we should refuse to meet the challenge.
It is to this high ______ that I now call my people at home and my people across the seas who will make our cause their ______. I ask them to stand calm and firm and united in this time of ______. The task will be hard. There may be dark days ahead, and war can no longer be ______ to the battlefield, but we can only do the right as we see the right, and reverently commit our cause to God. If one and all we keep resolutely ______ to it, ready for whatever service or sacrifice it may demand, then with God’s help, we shall prevail. May He bless and keep us all.
In this ______ hour, perhaps the most fateful in history, I send to every household of my ______, both at home and overseas, this message, spoken with the same depth of feeling for each one of you as if I were able to cross your ______ and speak to you myself.
For the second time in the lives of most of us, we are at ______. Over and over again, we have tried to find a peaceful way out of the differences between ourselves and those who are now our ______, but it has been in ______. We have been ______ into a conflict, for which we are called, with our allies to meet the challenge of a principle which, if it were to prevail, would be fatal to any civilized order in the world.
It is a principle which permits a state in the selfish ______ of power to disregard its treaties and its solemn _______, which sanctions the use of force or threat of force against the sovereignty and independence of other ______. Such a principle, stripped of all disguise, is surely the mere primitive doctrine that might is right, and if this principle were established throughout the world, the freedom of our own country and of the whole British Commonwealth of nations would be in ______.
But far more than this, the peoples of the world would be kept in ______ of fear, and all hopes of settled peace and of the security of justice and liberty among ______, would be ______. This is the ultimate issue which ______ us. For the sake of all we ourselves hold dear, and of the world order and peace, it is ______ that we should refuse to meet the challenge.
It is to this high ______ that I now call my people at home and my people across the seas who will make our cause their ______. I ask them to stand calm and firm and united in this time of ______. The task will be hard. There may be dark days ahead, and war can no longer be ______ to the battlefield, but we can only do the right as we see the right, and reverently commit our cause to God. If one and all we keep resolutely ______ to it, ready for whatever service or sacrifice it may demand, then with God’s help, we shall prevail. May He bless and keep us all.
5. What structure does this speech follow?
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