Lessons on speeches

Hi there
I'm very sorry, before leaving for Grenoble I didn't manage to post the slides from the lesson and the language work we did on Monday and Tuesday. Here is the powerpoint from the lesson.

Political speeches bush_obama from Francesca Helm

If you want to read and listen to the speeches,
here's a link to Bush's speech to congress 20/09/2011
Obama, A New Beginning 4/06/2009
 What we looked at in particular was the part of Obama's speech which regarded the Palestine-Israel issue, and an issue which we will look at more during lessons as we look at CDA and accusations of bias in the media.
For next week I asked you to look for and analyse a speech which somehow relates to the topic of your blog, and try to analyse it looking out for the aims of the speech, the audience, how the speech is organized and how it seeks to accomplish the aim, lexical choice, rhetorical devices ... there's plenty for you to look for. In your groups you can either each choose one speech or each look at one or two aspects of the same speech. Up to you!

Francesca