This document outlines an advanced English conversation course that aims to improve students' speaking skills. The course focuses on mastering vowels, voice production, and stress/rhythm patterns. As part of the course, students will analyze and discuss Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech, underlining its main ideas and rhetorical devices. Their discussion will be evaluated based on a debate rubric focusing on appearance, opening statements, rebuttals, voice volume, and respect.

1. Subject:
Advanced Conversation
• After Mandarin, English has become the most
spoken language and it is the language of
business, that is why mastering the oral aspect
of the language is almost a must for anyone
who wanted to become a very competitive
person. There are no doubts, that this course
“Advanced Conversation” will help you
achieve that goal. Welcome and good luck.

2. Course Description
• Upgrade students’
speaking skills.
• Emphasizes mastery of
• Designs to the vowel system
• Improvement of voice
production
• Mastery of English
stress and rhythm
patterns

3. Objective
• Analyze and discuss
Martin Luther King’s
speech I Have a Dream.
(extract)

4. Theme
I Have a Dream by Martin Luther King Jr
• I am happy to join with you today in what will go
down in history as the greatest demonstration for
freedom in the history of our nation.
• Five score years ago, a great American, in whose
symbolic shadow we stand signed the
Emancipation Proclamation. This momentous
decree came as a great beacon light of hope to
millions of Negro slaves who had been seared in
the flames of withering injustice. It came as a
joyous daybreak to end the long night of
captivity.

5. • But one hundred years later, we must face the
tragic fact that the Negro is still not free. One
hundred years later, the life of the Negro is still
sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation and
the chains of discrimination. One hundred years
later, the Negro lives on a lonely island of poverty
in the midst of a vast ocean of material
prosperity. One hundred years later, the Negro is
still languishing in the corners of American
society and finds himself an exile in his own land.
So we have come here today to dramatize an
appalling condition.

6. • In a sense we have come to our nation's
capital to cash a check. When the architects of
our republic wrote the magnificent words of
the Constitution and the Declaration of
Independence, they were signing a promissory
note to which every American was to fall heir.
This note was a promise that all men would be
guaranteed the inalienable rights of life,
liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

7. Task No. 1
When you finish
reading the extract of
Martin Luther King’s
speech “I Have a
dream” underline the
main ideas that call
your attention.
What personification
did you find, and how
many similes? Share
your findings with the
group in a controlled
class discussion.

8. Evaluation
• Read clearly the criteria
of the evaluation. Make
sure that you
understand each item
and that you covered
them in your
participation.
Good luck. You can do
it.

9. Debate Rubric
Critria Rate 1-10 Comments
Appearance
(Professionally
dressed.)
Opening statements
were well organized.
Addressed remarks to
the audience.
Opening statements
were not read from
cards.
Student spoke loud
enough to be heard.
Rebuttal was specific to
arguments
Respect was shown
throughout the debate
Points Earned: ______/70 Points