Speech

Speech

Kia ora everybody I’m Angela and I am here to tell you why we should never change our national flag. Would you like it if not only the flag was changed, but also our culture, our people, our food and our religion? As New Zealanders we should take a stand and stick together as we all live on this land.

Leaving our flag’s history and honor would mean us New Zealanders are disrespecting the original flag of New Zealand, and disrespecting the efforts of those who fought with that flag on their sleeves.
Yes designing the flags took a lot of time and effort, and yes they have quiet attractive colours, but wouldn't saving our money be sufficient. Imagine all the money wasted changing signage or to change every flag sewn or printed onto every uniform would cost a lot of money. Money that could be spent wisely to keep everyone above the breadline.

Did you know that in 1992, the former Minister of Māori Affairs, Matiu Rata asked to re-establish our national identity. Our current flag first flew on the 24th of March, 1902 and it still flies now, so why change it. You wouldn’t like it if your country’s flag was changed too so why change this one? Why change the flag that has been flying for over 119 years. Ask yourselves why you would do such a thing to your land?

Although the options of the new flag were attractive changing the flag would mean letting go of our past and changing our identity as New Zealanders, something I’m not prepared to do.

LI:To write a speech that persuades others to think the way you do

This week the Seniors has been working on speeches and the Juniors have been working on memorizing poem. We need to give eye contact and have expression as well as hooking the audience with persuasive language features. We needed to be confident to project our voice to the class. I think I have done a really good job because my language features changed from my last speech. What I could work on is building my confidence so I could be better when reading my speech. On Wednesday we had a guest visitor Mr Stevenson from tamaki collage to judge the selected peoples speech. In our class head girl of 2019 mele came first. Second came Jack head boy and third was Marieta.