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Getting Ready For Speech was a finalist in the Independent Publisher book awards of 2002. It features a wide variety of sample speeches it includes storytelling show and tell and movie and book reviews it is perfect practice for high school speech contests it carefully controls grammar and vocabulary and recycles them again and again. Getting Ready for Speech is much more than the lowest level speech book on the market. Using a new approach each unit develops both language skills and speech skills. Each unit introduces grammar vocabulary and listening skills along with speech delivery and organizational skills. Every unit features a different type of speech. Speech types include selfintroduction speeches speeches to introduce someone layout speeches demonstrations speeches storytelling show and tell and movie and book reviews. Units have a proven stepbystep learnerfriendly format 1. MODELEach unit kicks off with a model a focused listening task where students listen to simple minispeeches modeling the units target speech. 2. LANGUAGEThese pages highlight and practice the specific language from the minispeeches 3. DELIVERYThe everpopular delivery pages isolate and practice the units delivery skill. 4. PRACTICEThese pages revise the listening task at the beginning of the unit into a pair work format that enables each student to integrate the units language and delivery skills. 5. SPEECHThese pages provide students with a clear simple template for preparing and giving their own speeches. 6. GRAMMAREach unit concludes with a page summarizing the units grammar focus. Getting Ready for SpeechA four skills text disguised as a speech text