[About the speaker]
Mark Bezos is the SVP, Development, Communications & Events at Robin Hood, the leading poverty-fighting charity in New York City. Bezos joined Robin Hood following the sale of his advertising agency, excited to have found a way to use his powers of persuasion for good.
Bezos is the Assistant Captain of a volunteer fire company in Westchester County, New York, where he lives with his wife and four children. He is continuously amazed and motivated by the everyday acts of heroism--big and small--that surround him.
[About this talk]
Volunteer firefighter Mark Bezos tells a story of an act of heroism that didn't go quite as expected -- but that taught him a big lesson: Don't wait to be a hero.
[Viedo]
[Script]
[23rd] A life lesson from a volunteer firefighter.doc
[How we do]
@ 1st week(7,January)
1st: Watching the speech
-> Listen carefully the full speech, and mark the "pose" and "un-famialiar words" with you.
2nd: Sharing vocabulary. (By all members)
-> Talk together to figure out the meaning of the "un-familiar words" you found.
3rd: Shadowing the speech. x 2 times
-> Read the text with the speaker at as much the same tone and pronunciation as the original speaker does.
4th: Review the speech
i. Gesture of speaker, structure, grammar, pronunciation, and so on.
ii. Contents of speech. (short discussion)
-> Freely, share your own opinion about the speech such as which point you like about, which point you don't , or
5th: Shadowing the speech. x 2 times
-> Read the text with the speaker at as much the same tone and pronunciation as the original speaker does.