English Oral Discussion 2011 - Topics, Tips and Strategies

[Greatness]

Nice adivce, thanks I dont think we are allowed to choose our topics  We have to do it on the topic of an article which we write a language analysis on...

[chrisjb]

If anyone's interested, I have half decided on doing the gst for internet stores issue. I watched a thing about it on chanel 24 today. So I reckon I'll go with that in my oral... I just hope that the issue hangs around for another month or so, that way it will still seem relevant at the time.

[luken93]

If anyone's interested, I have half decided on doing the gst for internet stores issue. I watched a thing about it on chanel 24 today. So I reckon I'll go with that in my oral... I just hope that the issue hangs around for another month or so, that way it will still seem relevant at the time.

Hmmm never really thought of this, you could have a lot of inclusive language (ie who has used eBay)

[Cinnah]

I am considering doing my speech about the actual schooling system, inspired by this:
http://www.ted.com/talks/ken_robinson_changing_education_paradigms.html

I did a year 11 presentation on internet censorship, which went fairly well.
There's a lot of material on it.

The DAV website has a few okay topics too :3

[myheaven]

If anyone's interested, I have half decided on doing the gst for internet stores issue. I watched a thing about it on chanel 24 today. So I reckon I'll go with that in my oral... I just hope that the issue hangs around for another month or so, that way it will still seem relevant at the time.

hey i'm doing this as well haha
are you for or against tax on overseas online retailers/australia's ridiculous tax exemption import threshold?

[nacho]

I still can't think of an issue...the education system thing has whet my interest, but it's not that much of a deal in the media as of november (or whatever the date has to be so that the issue is considered 'recent')
Can someone tell me what I can do?
I've check off (as in, i won't be doing):
- Assylum Seekers
- Anything religion/lifestyle (beliefs/ways of living etc) related

[Ghost!]

I still can't think of an issue...the education system thing has whet my interest, but it's not that much of a deal in the media as of november (or whatever the date has to be so that the issue is considered 'recent')
Can someone tell me what I can do?
I've check off (as in, i won't be doing):
- Assylum Seekers
- Anything religion/lifestyle (beliefs/ways of living etc) related

Open up a newspaper and go to the opinion section, where they have all the brief letters from readers. Best way to get update on all the best/currest issues.

[Tobias Funke]

I know we are meant to 'use language to persuade' about an issue, but I don't know what we're supposed to exactly speak about. I take it, we talk about some and express a point of view, and perhaps ways to improve any problems or something?

[eeps]

I know we are meant to 'use language to persuade' about an issue, but I don't know what we're supposed to exactly speak about. I take it, we talk about some and express a point of view, and perhaps ways to improve any problems or something?

Yes, what you've just said is correct.

[Tobias Funke]

Cool beans, never hurts to double check

[Cinnah]

I still can't think of an issue...the education system thing has whet my interest, but it's not that much of a deal in the media as of november (or whatever the date has to be so that the issue is considered 'recent')
Can someone tell me what I can do?
I've check off (as in, i won't be doing):
- Assylum Seekers
- Anything religion/lifestyle (beliefs/ways of living etc) related

It was the same for me, and despite Herald Sun being a shitty paper, they supplied much more articles on the education system than other newspapers.

I did my planning homework, and I am actually doing my oral on "Why there needs to be a fundamental shift in the education system" focusing on VCE.

[Tobias Funke]

Annnnd I just read that whole thread.

I'm still thinking private school funding is a good idea for the time being, enough people seem to be complaining about it. Also with Oprah (just in case anyone wants to do that), it seems that the actual 'campaign' was successful in raising awareness about Australia, but hardly anyone has actually decided to go to Australia. This sort of thwarts the terrible excuse that they were trying to use to justify bringing her over here in the first place.

It'd be pretty fun just spending 5-6 minutes criticising an aspect of the Public Transport system too I guess

[werdna]

Re: the Oprah thing, of course no one is expecting a big influx of bookings a couple of hours after the final show has aired. People need time to consider going on a holiday. IMO, the Oprah trip has served its purpose; it has shown the world what it's like down here.. particularly countries and people who previously struggled to locate Australia on the map. Oprah's definitely created a buzz, and this will most definitely translate into bookings. I mean, bookings or no bookings, it was reported that $25 million was raised for the Queensland flood appeal worldwide after Oprah made a 15 second call for action during the first show. Surely this shows at least a glimpse of what kind of reaction this woman can create. I wish this was my oral presentation topic!

[Ghost!]

Re: the Oprah thing, of course no one is expecting a big influx of bookings a couple of hours after the final show has aired. People need time to consider going on a holiday. IMO, the Oprah trip has served its purpose; it has shown the world what it's like down here.. particularly countries and people who previously struggled to locate Australia on the map. Oprah's definitely created a buzz, and this will most definitely translate into bookings. I mean, bookings or no bookings, it was reported that $25 million was raised for the Queensland flood appeal worldwide after Oprah made a 15 second call for action during the first show. Surely this shows at least a glimpse of what kind of reaction this woman can create. I wish this was my oral presentation topic!

Except, according to the paper yesterday literally minutes after the first airing of the Oprah Down Under special bookings to Australia from the United States sky rocketed up.

[werdna]

Haha there you go - I think I read somewhere that after the airing of the shows, the traffic to the Australia.com website doubled.. so this shows that if Americans aren't already booking tickets, they're definitely contemplating/considering it. But also remember that the shows weren't just aired in the US. They were aired right around the world, which makes it all worthwhile IMO.