Will they listen to my speech?

This is a report on my future public speaking session. I must warn you, it is long and boring but please read it till the end



It's been a while since my last post made it's way here. Seems I had been busy enjoying myself and I almost feel like my fingers were avoiding me from blogging.

But I am glad this was a mandatory post. This is about the topic of my public speech - the urge to make English language subject a requirement for everyone to pass their SPM. I guess this is the next hot topic after the PPSMI argument. If they ask me, I will say that they should proceed with teaching students math and science in english and it's just not math and science, all other subjects except Malay language can be tought in english. But, half of my brain said most of the teachers were not ready for it. We should not be afraid of this, we were a step behind but we can catch up easily if we can find the right method to do it.



Back to my speech. Talk about english. Talk about exams. Talk about results. People learning english is troublesome but they were absolutely wrong. I knew a few people who kept saying english was so damn difficult. Still, their results in previous exam proof otherwise. Even though it was not an excellent result they still pass their english exam and judging by their grades, it was not the english subject that cause the problem but it was their mindset that keep saying it was hard. So for my topic I should say that I am agreeing with people who recommended this but there was something I must certain of before I proceed with my speech draft.


There is no need for my full speech draft so I just list down a few points to be argued in my speech :-

• identifying the people who came up with this idea

• identifying the significance of applying this rule to SPM candidate

• how this rule will affect teachers and students

• teacher/students, should they agree or disagree with this rule

• more importantly, can this rule improve the students

• what action should be taken to avoid students failing as a result of executing this rule

• what is the response received from the public

There are more points of argument to come but I shall leave this post now as it is getting longer and longer but before I finish it I would ask the person who initially selected this topic before me, Miss Que so we can have some discussion.
You were right that this topic has some pros and cons as it is an argumentative topic. So, if a person choose to be a supporter and the other as the opposition it will be easier to elaborate the positives and negatives in those points. In other words the work to create the speech draft can be cut in half and surely it will my brain something to enjoy - having less troubles to think of. Hehehe...