Memorable, Last Meeting.. How?
I am Teaching English for Public Speaking in Jogjakarta, Indonesia. My students are 3rd graders of Senior High School. Next week is the last meeting; and we have been working hard throughout the whole program. I want to have something interestingly fun, yet educating. I want to make it unforgettable, yet still related to Public Speaking and Motivational Activities in general. For teachers and students, any idea?
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Give everyone a paperback Dictionary/Thesaurus. I am lost without mine.
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Hi maybe you can bring a baked good if you are allowed? Or some refreshments and have the last "class" be a social, good bye gathering where they have to play toastmasters & speak in front of each other. First have the students each write their name on a strip of paper, and a silly subject on another strip of paper. Toastmasters but on silly subjects, so put all the names into a hat & all the subjects into another one. Draw a name & have that person, draw a subject & talk on the topic for 3 minutes or less.
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make a inspirational speech and have them make a short speech about how they feel about the class. im in public speaking and i would want to do that, and your job is very interesting by the way.
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I'm confused as to the age of your students when they're called 3rd graders, but at a Senior High School, so its difficult to give you an answer that will fit the range of 8 to 17 year old students. Also, you don't say how long your last meeting is scheduled to last, nor if the style of the class is interactive or lecture, so that further confuses the issue. Nevertheless, here are 2 ideas for your consideration: 1. Lecture - Pick a GREAT example of someone in history who was a wonderful motivater of people (ie: Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Jr.; Winston Churchill; Bishop Tutu; etc.), then present examples of that person's public speaking to your students. Alternatively, you could do a collage of several different examples, then ask the class to vote on their favorite one. (If you have computer or video facilities to actually show them the examples that would be great!) 2. Interactive - Assignment is for each student to present to the class a statement of why someone is their favorite motivational public speaker & give 1 or 2 quotes from that person. For each presentation given, the other students have to vote on who they think the speaker is. (You can have this be done in a written format that you would grade later, or if you have the time in class do it verbally, or put all names on a flip chart & have the class vote on who they think it is - giving another famous quote from that person as proof.) If I would have had more details about the audience, time & resource constraints, etc. I might be able to offer more ideas; but, I hope these help.
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