Evaluation of hooks
In this post I will evaluate attention-getters in introductions
of different performances from TedTalk. We already know that introduction is
very important and it plays a great role in a speech. Its efficacy affects the
fact whether we will be interested in listening to the rest of parts of speech
or not.
Here is the table how I assessed introductions.
№ видео
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Ссылка на
видео
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Смотреть до (мин.)
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Ваш ответ
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1
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0:26
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3
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2
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3:06
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2
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3
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1:45
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3
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4
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0:41
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4
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5
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0:36
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1
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6
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0:54
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1
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7
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0:38
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3
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8
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0:35
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5
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9
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2:44
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5
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10
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0:27
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4
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11
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0:33
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3
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12
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1:33
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2
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13
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0:47
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3
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14
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1:00
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4
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15
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1:06
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3
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16
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0:46
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4
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17
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0:44
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3
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18
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0:50
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2
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19
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1:13
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3
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20
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0:28
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3
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21
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1:18
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4
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Now I would like to point out those videos that I preferred
from the list because their introductions were so amazing, in my opinion.
The eighth video where the woman told that people from the audience sitting
to each other were liars appealed to me. I think that anybody could be
surprised if a speaker suddenly referred to listeners in such a way.
The 9th video also caught my attention because the introduction was
interesting. The author told the story about being a procrastinator. His
illustrations, examples sounded very funny, sincere and true-to-life.
The 11th video was also good, the speaker made a startling statement
about human voice. That was very clever of him because I think many people
became attentive after these words.
The 14th video also interested me because the woman used a very
common song from childhood that everybody know about romantic relationships. And
the contrast between the song and the picture she showed afterwards seemed so
huge and ridiculous. That is why I can call it as a good introduction.
The speech in the 16th video has a very powerful introduction. I liked that the
speaker asked such a rhetorical question that one can hardly answer: “Would you
forgive a person that killed your family members?” I believe that many people
started contemplating over such problem and feeling puzzled.
The speaker in
the last (21st) video used a lot of rhetorical questions that immediately
made my eyes glued to the screen. His questions were so relevant to me.
Sometimes I ask myself too: “Why do things go as we assume?”, “Why do some particular
people achieve things that seem to defy all the assumptions?”
As for the videos (5,6)
the introductions of which I liked the least, I can say that the reason for
giving such points was the prolongation of introduction. They could have been
shortened. Also I was not impressed much.
I am not sure which attention-getters I will use, but I am inclined to think that asking rhetorical questions or reciting quotations in the introduction makes a speech better.
I am not sure which attention-getters I will use, but I am inclined to think that asking rhetorical questions or reciting quotations in the introduction makes a speech better.
What about you? What videos
did you like most? Why? Leave some comments down below!
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