Applied English for American History II
Fall 1999
Tokyo International University of America
J. E. Seibert

Planning sheet for your Presentation

Advertisements as Historical Evidence

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Last name ____________________ First name _____________

You need: Your text and Professor Jopp's "worksheet four"

____ 1. Check your draft of worksheet four. Make sure you have read and answered the questions carefully. Regarding question 3, use what you have read and heard in the history lectures, as well as your own thinking, to carefully analyze what the advertisement "tells" us in words and in pictures about this period of history.

____ 2. Have (1) another student check worksheet 4, and then (2) have Professor Seibert check it.

____ 3. Prepare your presentation on your own paper. Use some of the sentences. Add others you need.

"I analyzed the ad on page ________ of our textbook".

This ad is selling ___(product)__ by appealing to the emotions of __(for example, patriotism, maternal or paternal concern, romantic love, nostalgia, ambition or the desire to improve oneself, etc.)_.

The advertisement appeals to these emotions by ______(describe how the ad appeals to the emotions you named)_______.

Most importantly, this ad is a piece of historical evidence that tells us the following things about the period of time around _____(the year of the ad)_____:

First,

Second,

Third,

Etc.

[above: see question three on the worksheet and answer all of the parts of the question].

 

____ 4. Make a simple visual aid with the key points in question 3 and any vocabulary your classmates don't know. Spell correctly. Be neat.

____ 5. Practice a thousand times.

Be brief -- there are 17 students -- , but be complete.

Look at the audience -- everyone; move you head around and make eye contact with every listener.

Speak loudly! A presentation is only a presentation if others can hear you.

Memorize your short presentation or use note cards. Please, please don't read with your face in the paper.

Check the pronunciation of every word! If you don't pronounce things correctly, no one can understand you. The point of language is to communicate.

In an English sentence, stress only the primary syllable of the following parts of speech: nouns, main verbs, adjectives, adverbs, the word "not" and contractions with "not" such as don't, "wh" questions, "this" and "that" if they point to something, names and numbers.

Speak in phrases, not word by word.

Look relaxed and confident even if you are not. Pretend.