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SUSTAINABILITY

Tourism New Zealand 100% pure: sustainable tourism video release Kiwi accent Book your flight to Middle Earth : video. Top 10 New Zealand books of the decade A history of New Zealand Literature — through selected texts. New Zealand Literature : University of Waikato. The media in NZ:       NZ Herald       NZ radio stations (live)       One news NZ (videos)       ABC News NZ (videos)

ORAL PRESENTATIONS

Making a presentation like Steve Jobs. BBC Skillwise website:  giving a presentation BBC Tallking Business:  Presentations: Language Expert How to make your presentations better without opening your mouth . Body language and voice tone account for 63% of communication (according to this article). Tips for effective presentations Tips on making presentations  (by University of Kent, the UK's European University).  Worth checking out the part  "Advanced Presention Tips: the Art of Rhetoric ":  tricolon effect   or the rule of three ( The truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth ) use of contrast   ( A time to kill, and a time to heal; A time to tear down, and a time to build up.  Margaret Thatcher ) use of similes and metaphors  ( A beachhead of cooperation may push back the jungle of suspicion.  J.F.Kennedy ) alliteration   ( Let it be our cause to give that child a  happy   home, a...

THIS IS WHAT I CALL A DEAD PARROT!

  The Dead Parrot sketch script . The true story behind The Dead Parrot sketch and other famous sketches such as The Ministry of Silly Walks and others. Margaret Thatcher does the Dead Parrot sketch : video. He who avoids complaint invites happiness (older post). How to complain politely in English. How to make a complaint : Listening (BBC Learning English website).