WEEK 5:
COHESIVE DEVICES
PREPARED BY:
BOYETH D. TERO
STUDENT INTERN, CTU-CARMEN
OBJECTIVES:
1.IDENTIFY APPROPRIATE WORDS OR PHRASES INDICATING COHERENCE
2. ILLUSTRATE EFFECTIVE USE OF COHESIVE DEVICES IN PERSUASIVE SPEECH
3.DISPLAY RATIONALITY AND TACT IN PERSUADING OTHERS ON CURRENT ISSUES
ACTIVITY #1
DIRECTIONS: READ THE TEXT AND ANSWER THE FOLLOWING
QUESTIONS.
1. ARE IDEAS WELL CONNECTED?
2. HOW SHOULD WE IMPROVE IT?
3. DO YOU KNOW COHESIVE DEVICES?
For me, violent video games should be
banned. It is entertaining . It is not
helpful to them. It will make them
believe that violence is okay. Children
should not see those terrible scenes. So
these must stop.
COHESIVE DEVICES
• Serves as links between ideas ,holding sentences
and paragraphs from beginning to end of the
discussion in a text.
• It serves as a guide of the reader into understanding
the main idea and supporting details clearly and
effectively.
• In persuasive speeches ,these signal words help in
the presentation of a claim or opinion.
COHESIVE DEVICES
• These adds emphasis, creativity, and impact to the
discussion.
• Helps convince a reader or an audience into
believing a point of view.
ADDITION
ALSO, AND, LIKEWISE,
IN ADDITION, BESIDES ,TOO,
NEXT, FURTHERMORE, MOREOVER,
FINALLY
COMPARISON
COMPARED WITH, IN THE SAME
WAY,
HOWEVER, SIMILARLY,
IN THE SAME MANNER,
ALSO, LIKEWISE
CONTRAST
BUT, HOWEVER, IN CONTRAST
CONVERSELY,
WHILE, WHEREAS
ALTHOUGH,
DIFFERENT FROM,
ON THE OTHER HAND
EMPHASIS
MOST OF ALL, NOTABLY, IT
SHOULD BE NOTED,
CONSIDERABLY, CLEARLY,
INDEED, ABOVE ALL,
UNDOUBTEDLY, SPECIFICALLY
CONCESSION
ALTHOUGH IT IS TRUE THAT IT
MAY APPEAR, IT IS TRUE THAT,
GRANTED THAT, REGARDLESS,
CERTAINLY, I ADMIT THAT
CONCLUSION
TO SUM IT UP, FINALLY,
THEREFORE, IN BRIEF, THUS,
BRIEFLY, IN CONCLUSION, IN
THE END, IN THE FINAL
ANALYSIS, ON THEWHOLE
1.IDENTIFY THE DIFFERENT
COHESIVE DEVICES
2.USE APPROPRIATE COHESIVE
DEVICES IN VARIOUS TYPES OF
SPEECHES
(ENTERTAINMENT SPEECH)
3.DISPLAY A SENSE OF
RESPONSIBILITY IN IMPARTING
SPEECH TO AUDIENCE
CAUSE AND EFFECT
BECAUSE,SO,
THEREFORE,THUS,HENCE,AS A
RESULT, DUE TO THIS
SEQUENCE
FIRST/LY, SECOND/LY, THIRD,
NEXT,MEANWHILE, NOW,
FINALLY,BEFORE, AFTER, THEN
QUALIFYING
BUT, HOWEVER, ALTHOUGH,
EXCEPT, UNLESS, APART FROM,
AS LONG AS, IF ASIDE FROM,
EXMPLIFICATION
FOR EXAMPLE, FOR INSTANCE,
TO ILLUSTRATE, SUCH AS,
NAMELY, AS SHOWN BY, AS
REVEALED BY, ILLUSTRATED BY
EXAMPLE:
1. THE PUBLIC TRANSPORT IN THIS
CITY IS UNRELIABLE AND IT IS
CHEAP.
2. THE PUBLIC TRANSPORT IN THIS
CITY IS UNRELIABLE BUT IT IS
CHEAP.
TYPE OF SPEECH: ENTERTAINMENT
SPEECH
-IT IS A SPEECH DESIGNED TO
CAPTIVATE AN AUDIENCE’S
ATTENTION AND REGALE OR AMUSE
THEM WHILE DELIVERING THE
MESSAGE.
ENTERTAINMENT SPEECHES ARE
OFTEN DELIVERED ON SPECIAL
OCCASIONS
(E.G., WEDDING, ACCEPTANCE
SPEECH DURING AN AWARDING
CEREMONY, MOTIVATIONAL SPEECH,
CONFERENCE)
- REFERRED SOMETIMES AS
SPECIAL-OCCASION SPEECHES
DIRECTION: USE CORECT COHESIVE
DEVICES IN COMPLETING THE
FOLLOWING STATEMENTS FOUND IN
THE GIVEN ENTERTAINMENT
SPEECH.
1.“MY FELLOW STUDENTS, WE HAD
OUR SHARE OF MANY COMPLAINTS
ABOUT HOW DIFFICULT THE TEST
WAS ( YET, SO, BECAUSE) WE ARE
HERE TODAY. PROUDLR RECEIVING
OUR REWARDS.”
2. “(ALTHOUGH,UNLESS, DESPITE)
OUR CONSTANT DISAGREEMENTSIN
ALL GROUP PROJECTS, WE
REMAINED TRUE FRIENDS.”
SCHOOL PROJECTS, WE LOST TRACK
OF TIME. SOMETIMES, WE NEEDED
TO CALL OUR PARENTS
(ALTHOUGH,AS, BECAUSE) IT WAS
ALREADY MIDNIGHT.”
4. “(HOWEVER,IN SPITE OF,BECAUSE)
ALL THE SLEEPLESS NIGHTS WE
EXPERIENCED TO MEET THE
DEADLINES GIVEN BY OUR
EDUCATORS, WE REMAIN
5. “AS A SCHOLAR IN OUR
INSTITUTION, MY LIFE HAS BEEN
FULL OF CHALLENGES
(DESPITE,HOWEVER,BECAUSE) I DID
NOT QUIVER NOR SURRENDER;
BECAUSE I AM A SURVIVOR.”
