Thunberg’s Speech at the UN Climate Action Summit 2019
My message is that we’ll be watching you.
This is all wrong. I shouldn’t be up here. I should be back in school on the other side of the ocean. Yet you all come to us young people for hope. How dare you!
You have stolen my dreams and my childhood with your empty words. And yet I’m one of the lucky ones. People are suffering. People are dying. Entire ecosystems are collapsing. We are in the beginning of a mass extinction, and all you can talk about is money and fairy tales of eternal economic growth. How dare you!
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a biological community that contains many diff erent forms of life
species/group of living things dies out
Now watch Greta’s speech in full. Pay attention to the way she delivers her speech.
Read the speech techniques listed here, and then watch the speech once more to see if Greta uses them.
SPEECH TECHNIQUE Repetition Fact
Statistic DEFINITION
Repeating words or phrases to highlight an idea A truthful piece of information
