PASS COLLEGE
SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL DEPARTMENT
ORAL COMMUNICATION
Quiz 1
NAME: HAZEL MARIE D. ABELLA
Strand
1. As a class, watch Marianna Pascal’s Speech:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9u2BtGHa_0Y
Provide short and brief answers from the questions below:
• Does the speech catch the attention of the audience?
Yes, the speech catch the attention of her audience. She is very captivating while she
delivers her speech. The audience attention was on the speaker the whole time.
• Does the speech amuse or entertain the audience while the message is delivered? If yes,
why do you say so? What are the factors that make the speech amusing or entertaining?
Yes I myself gets entertain the whole time she talk. For me she is a very good speaker,
because its natural to her to speak in front of many people and I think she is a professional
speaker.
The factors that make the speech entertaining is the way she deliver the speech in a humorous way
that I think some speakers could not do in front of their audience. Based on the way she speak, I
think she is a great teacher because of her technique of making her audience alive and interested on
what she is saying. Her confidence in delivering her message about the standard and local english
was clearly explained to the corresponding audiences. By using examples from her experiences
about misinterpreting english phrases, it helps everyone to understand what she wants to convey. It
is exactly true that we should embrace the language that we have for us to be more understood to
other culture with other used of the English language because like what she said, one word can
change the entire meaning of a sentence and to have an effective communication, we should know
how to deal with everyone from different places around the world by using a certain language with
a clear context that we want to convey.
• What parts comprise the speech?
The speech has introduction, body and conclusion. With just a short time, the speaker
tell all the concept about local english.
• What is the message of the speech?
The message of the speech is with just using a wrong word or letter in a communication, the
whole thing or the whole thought will mean different. It tells that we should be careful and use
the right words when speaking specially to foreigners.
• What are the interesting points or ideas that support the message of the speech?
The interesting point is when she set her experiences as examples to the topic of her
speech. The real life situations that she said supports the whole speech.