You have practised and will practise more advanced speaking tasks – what are now called Oral Communication tasks – here in Fire and Ice 2.
Fire and Ice 2 Oral Communication Tasks Collection 1 Friend or Foe
You wrote and recorded or spoke aloud a short piece of text to be used as narration over a one-minute fi lm on the house in which Anne Frank and her family hid from the Nazis
Collection 2 Journeys Collection 3 Challenges Collection 4 War
You worked with a classmate to perform the dialogue between Billy and the Landlady from Roald Dahl’s short story ‘The Landlady’
You performed the speech you wrote on the importance of equality in society/gender equality
You will speak a news report you write on an incident of war as if you are a TV newsreader
Collection 5 Jiggery-pokery You will record a review you write or speak it aloud for your classmates or teacher
or
Working alone or with a classmate, you will create an audio or video review of 2–3 minutes in length about an item (book, fi lm, TV programme, website, etc.)
Topic and Format Examples AN INTERESTING PERSON
A Performance I will perform a boxing commentary on one of Katie Taylor’s fi ghts
I will focus on Katie
Taylor, who is a sportsperson I admire
A Response to Stimulus Material I will present a photo
of Katie Taylor in action and speak about the time I met her
A Presentation I will speak
about why I admire Katie Taylor and why I think she is a role model for young Irish people
An Interview I will imagine an interview with
Katie Taylor which takes place after she has just lost her fi rst big professional fi ght
