Persuasive Speeches

L.I To write a speech that persuades others to think the way you do.

Audience eye Contact - I memorised most of my speech and I was able to look at my audience.

Expression - I was a bit nervous so I didn't make much expression.

Hook in your audience with persuasive language features - I tried to use as much language features

Confidence - I shared my speech with the whole class, I was very nervous to say my speech but at the same time I was really excited because I was able to share my speech and maybe convince some people to think the way I think.

Wages need to go UP!

Have you been told “No, that costs too much”. If you have, it could be because your parents or guardians are not getting paid enough.My name is Florence and I will be talking about how wages affect a person's debt. Wages have stayed the same for a long time but the cost of living has gone up which makes an adults life harder because they have to pay the bills.

Would you like it if you worked from 9 in the morning until 5 at night, and got paid a small amount of money, not even enough money to pay your rent. They say hard work pays off but when the wages don’t cover the basic things it doesn’t look like that is true.

If prices go up and wages stay the same, then people won't have enough money to provide for their families with healthy food and a warm house.

That’s not fair because everyone in NZ has the right to live a decent life. Can you believe that 16% of kids in NZ live in poverty. Poverty is the state of being extremely poor. I think that's sad.

It could take weeks for someone to save enough money to be able to buy just one item. It can take weeks because some adults don’t get paid a lot of money each week. Often people turn to loan places that charge high interest rates and this gets them deeper and deeper into debt. Debt is very hard to get out of.

Wages need to go up or life will just get harder for people in the future. Just remember that your parents or guardians can’t always buy everything you want and sometimes I imagine that hurts them as much as you think it hurts you. Thank you