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10) Do you agree with the recommendations concerning publicity? Can you give any other ideas of your own?

UNIT 15

Speechwriting

Text A

The good speechwriter has the ability to stand in the shoes of the person who must give the speech. Sociologists call this empathic ability - the ability to think and feel much as the person who will give the speech. In a sense, you become your client's alter ego.

Such understanding and empathic ability do not arise in a vacuum. They can develop only after a great deal of research and thorough discussion with the per­son for whom you are writing.

Researching Audience and Speaker

If you are given a speechwriting assignment, the first step is to find out every­thing possible about the audience. Who? Where? When? How many people? What time of day? Purpose of meeting? How long a talk? Purpose of talk? Other speakers and their topics? To find the answers to these questions, it might be necessary to talk with a number of individuals. Don't necessarily trust the information you get if it appears to be only a guess. Too many speakers have innocently blundered because they received bad information about their audience.

Next, learn everything you can about the speaker. Listen to the speaker talk - to other groups, to subordinates, to yourself. Get a chance to see how his or her mind works, what word phrases are favored, and what kinds of opinions are expressed. In addition to listening, it is also a good idea to go over material that the client has written or, if written by others, that the client admires in terms of style and method of presentation.

Vocabulary:

empathic - сочувствующий; эмпатический; переживающий

alter ego - «альтер эго», второе «я»

guess - догадка, предположение

blunder - допустить оплошность, ошибку

subordinate - подчиненный

favor - отдавать предпочтение

admire - восхищаться, любоваться

in terms - с точки зрения; в смысле; что касается

Exercises

1) Find the English equivalents in the text. Use them in sentences of your own:

произнести речь; до некоторой степени; возникнуть; обстоятельный; задание; выяснить; цель чего-либо; ряд лиц; доверять; казаться; в добавление к чему-либо.

2) Find the words in the text which mean or describe the following:

1. having the ability to understand other people's feelings and problems -

2. trying to answer a question or make a judgment about something without know­ing all the facts, so that you are not sure whether you are correct -

3. to make a big mistake, especially because you have been careless or stupid -

4. someone who has a lower position and less authority than someone else in an organization -

5. to support or approve of one plan, idea etc., especially when there are several to choose from -

6. in the relation to some fact or event -

7. to have a very high opinion of someone because of a quality they have -

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