Ted Talk

Outline- A TED TALK COMMENTARY 10%
Names: Adriano Lazzarotto and Matias Barrantes

Class: 10 A
Due date:
1. Visit https://www.ted.com/talks?language=en and decide on a TED TALK about the most trendy Topics: Technology, Entertainment, Design,
Science, Global Issues.
2. Watch the video and fill in the document below, share and complete with your classmate’s notes.
3. Plan a 5-minute informative presentation with your partner that includes all the aspects, details, examples and reasons you could draw from
the TED TALK you heard.
4. Take care of the fact that you have to use Reported Speech, variety of reporting verbs, and phrases such as According to…, In the Talk….
Remember you are not reporting your own ideas.
5. Take care of transitions between ideas in your Outline and the interaction between you and your classmate.
6. Avoid brief ideas with little explanation. Avoid omitting information.
7. Design Visual Aids that include the photo of the presenter/speaker, and general guidelines to your presentation. Use the Viewing Worksheet
to help you.
8. Your presentation must follow this Outline:
A. Attention Getter
B. Your objectives (To inform, To make a commentary about, To discuss, etc.)
C. Introduce the name of the speaker and some background information about him/her.
D. Introduce the name of the presentation, and what were your expectations before you listened to it.
E. Introduce the Main Idea of the Talk (Aspect A)
F. Evidence and Main Ideas the Speaker gives during the presentation. (Aspect B)
G. Explain what the intention of the speaker is (Aspect C)
H. Connections (Aspect D)
I. Aspect E
J. Aspect F
K. Conclusions:
Aspect G
Aspect H
Aspect I
TED TALK Viewing Worksheet
Name: Matias Barrantes Date: 16/05/23 Class: 10-A
Title of the TED TALK: Break the silence for suicide attempt survivors. Name of the speaker: John D.
Schramm.
Answer the following questions as you watch the Ted Talk, use complete elaborate answers, appropriate vocabulary, grammar and punctuation. Use
REPORTED SPEECH as appropriate.
A. What is the main topic/thesis of the talk? What is the B. What is some evidence the speaker provides for his main
main intention of the speaker? thesis? Explain as many supporting ideas as possible.
John Talks us about his own experience with the suicide topic. He talks about of everything and every detail from the story and talks
about statistics related to suicide survivors/attempters, also his own
experience with suicide because he attempted and failed making him
think that life gave him another chance to self improve and get
through every hard moment in his life, he decided to built his life
back together emotionally, spiritually and physically, also gave some
statistics about this topic, a very encouraging one.
C. What changes in attitudes, thinking or actions are D. What connections do you draw between the talk and
suggested by the talk? Who would benefit from hearing your own life or learning? Why is this talk relevant for
this talk? Comment thoroughly. you, your life or the world? Elaborate your answers using
This story can be considered beneficial for everyone who have info from the Talk.
thought about committing suicide and show them that suicide is not
the only option to self-improve.
There’s a very big connection between this topic and some
circumstances of my life that happened in the last years, I think this
is very relevant because it shows you that you are not alone and
there’s a lot of people willing to help you.
E. What key concepts do you think worth holding on to F. What positions, ideas or assumptions of the talk would
from the talk? Vocabulary, phrases, ideas. Explain you like to challenge or argue? Write at least two.
This is three of the most important ones: Explain.
1- “that 19 out of 20 people who attempt suicide will fail.” This
research talk about a statistic of people who attempted to suicide
failed fortunately 1- I think you can't assume that all people who constantly think
about suicide are interested in someone's help
2- “But the people who fail are 37 times more likely to succeed the second 2- I think it is difficult to come up with an exact number of people
time.” This research is also a statistic about percentage of success in the
who fail in a suicide attempt
second attempt of suicide
3- “John committed himself to putting his life back together -- first physically,
then emotionally and then spiritually” This is a very important step on self
improvement after an suicide attempt.
G. Write down at least two things you learned from this H. Describe two things this speaker does well in terms of
talk. Explain engaging the audience. Describe which moments were
really effective.
1- I learned that sometimes life is who gives you a second
chance. 1- Telling a story making everyone think it’s from someone’s else
2- I also learned that no matter how difficult the situation is you when it s actually something that John went through
can improve and get over it .
2- Giving some advices about how to get out of this situation
I. What is your general opinion about the Talk? Explain a J. Background of the Speaker.
few conclusions you can draw from the Talk. He had just signed contract to sell his New York apartment at a six-
I think it’s a very important topic nowadays because of how the figure profit, and he'd only owned it for five years. The school where
suicide deaths rate have grown in the last years , It is a topic that is he graduated from with his master's had just offered him a teaching
rarely talked about but it is very important for a person’s knowledge appointment, wich meant not only a salary but benefits for the first
that there are many ways to get out of this situation. time in ages
Outline- A TED TALK COMMENTARY

Names:
Class:
Due date:
9. Visit https://www.ted.com/talks?language=en and decide on a TED TALK about the most trendy Topics: Technology, Entertainment, Design,
Science, Global Issues.
10. Watch the video and fill in the document below, share and complete with your classmate’s notes.
11. Plan a 5-minute informative presentation with your partner that includes all the aspects, details, examples and reasons you could draw from
the TED TALK you heard.
12. Take care of the fact that you have to use Reported Speech, variety of reporting verbs, and phrases such as According to…, In the Talk….
Remember you are not reporting your own ideas.
13. Take care of transitions between ideas in your Outline and the interaction between you and your classmate.
14. Avoid brief ideas with little explanation. Avoid omitting information.
15. Design Visual Aids that include the photo of the presenter/speaker, and general guidelines to your presentation. Use the Viewing Worksheet
to help you.
16. Your presentation must follow this Outline:
L. Attention Getter
M. Your objectives (To inform, To make a commentary about, To discuss, etc.)
N. Introduce the name of the speaker and some background information about him/her.
O. Introduce the name of the presentation, and what were your expectations before you listened to it.
P. Introduce the Main Idea of the Talk (Aspect A)
Q. Evidence and Main Ideas the Speaker gives during the presentation. (Aspect B)
R. Explain what the intention of the speaker is (Aspect C)
S. Connections (Aspect D)
T. Aspect E
U. Aspect F
V. Conclusions:
Aspect G
Aspect H
Aspect I

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