Persuasive Speeches

LI: To write a speech that persuades others to think the way you do. For the past few week in writing, we wrote persuasive speeches to convince others to believe and think like we do. In small groups or to the class, we read our speeches to each other and marked them. I was with Haylee and Miiana. When I read my speech to Haylee and Miiana, I did have confidence in presenting my speech to them. To have good marks, we used eye contact, expression and hooking our audience with language features. In my speech I think I did good with writing good reasons to back up my opinion and using some language features. I think that I need to improve on using more powerful words to hook the readers into my speech. I also need to improve on adding more information about cigarettes.

Why We Should Ban Cigarettes

Salam, I’m Sakina. Would you like it if one of your family members had suffered from diseases just because they smoke? Well, in my opinion, I think that smoking just isn't right. There are people out there, who have died or suffered because of cigarettes. I feel really sad for the number of people who lose their relatives or family members as a result of smoking, but it's their fault for getting into this kind of situation and starting to smoke in the first place!.

Cigarettes are really harmful to human health. There are many dangerous and life threatening diseases, such as lung cancer, heart disease, strokes and many more. More than 4000 people die from smoking each year in New Zealand. In a decade there might be more than 40,000 people who die from smoking. We need to start making our place a better environment by banning smoking!.

Most smokers probably smoke in public areas or around their family. Smoking needs to be restricted from these public areas, because secondhand smoking is a real issue. Secondhand smoking is when others inhale the smoke from the smokers around them. Secondhand smoking is just as harmful as smoking yourself. If someone is addicted to cigarettes they might choose to spend money on cigarettes instead of food for their families. Cigarettes cost around $30.00 per pack. You can buy clothes or food rather than buying cigarettes each week. Would you like it if your family spent $200 a week on cigarettes. Smoking in front of kids or children, might even encourage them to smoke when they're older.

Smoking is really harmful for everyone. Cigarettes include about 4,000 harmful chemicals which can be extremely dangerous and damage your health. There are 3 main harmful chemicals, which are nicotine, carbon monoxide and tar. Tar is one of the toxic chemicals in these cigarettes. Nicotine is even worse. It's a poisonous chemical made from tobacco plants. These chemicals in cigarettes can damage health. Who would ever think of smoking if they knew how many chemicals there are in cigarettes? I wouldn’t smoke if there was even one single chemical included in these cigarettes. Look at all the dangerous, toxic, poisonous chemicals which can really ruin your life and health.

We need to ban smoking to have a better and healthier environment. It would be even better if all the smokers out there could quit. Remember smoking can cause a lot of problems for everyone. Do you want to be someone who causes problems, just because of smoking?. Think about all the harm that smoking can do to you and the people you care about. Step up and have a better environment!. We need to and we should ban smoking for a better environment!