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Berpidato dalam bahasa Inggris tidaklah sulit. Meskipun bukan bahasa utama yang kita gunakan, bahasa Inggris cukup sering ditemukan dalam kehidupan sehari-hari. Banyak kosakata bahasa Inggris yang sudah akrab di telinga, sehingga mempersiapkan pidato bahasa Inggris bisa dilakukan dengan mudah.
Jika kamu ingin berpidato dalam bahasa Inggris, tidak perlu takut. Berikut contoh pidato bahasa Inggris yang singkat dengan berbagai tema yang bisa kamu jadikan referensi, lengkap dengan struktur pidato, tips menulis pidato, dan artinya.
Pertama-tama, mari kita pelajari tentang struktur dan tujuan teks pidato.
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Struktur Teks Pidato
Dikutip dari berbagai sumber, pidato berbahasa Inggris memiliki struktur yang tidak berbeda jauh dengan bahasa Indonesia. Berikut struktur kerangka pidato yang harus ada dalam pidatomu.
1. Opening (Pembukaan)
- Opening atau pembukaan merupakan hal pertama yang perlu disampaikan pembicara ketika berpidato sebagai bentuk rasa hormat kepada semua yang mendengarkan pidato tersebut. Dalam pembukaan, terdapat beberapa unsur sebagai berikut.
- Salam (greetings), misalnya: Good morning, good afternoon, good evening.
- Sapaan kepada audiens, misalnya: Ladies and gentlemen, brother and sister, the honorable, your excellency, dan sebagainya.
- Ucapan syukur, misalnya: Let's pray and thank unto our God Allah SWT...
- Perkenalan diri, bisa diawali dengan kalimat seperti: I would like to introduce myself. My name is...
2. Body (Isi)
Isi pidato merupakan inti yang ingin disampaikan pembicara dalam pidato. Bagian ini merupakan bagian paling penting yang harus disampaikan pembicara dan diketahui oleh pendengar. Isi pidato sebaiknya tidak bertele-tele dan gunakan bahasa yang mudah dimengerti, serta disampaikan dengan menarik.
3. Closing (Penutup)
Penutup adalah bagian akhir dalam pidato, yang biasanya berisi kesimpulan dari keseluruhan pidato yang disampaikan. Penutup terdiri atas dua bagian, yakni:
- Kesimpulan dari tema pidato.
- Ucapan terima kasih dan salam penutup.
Tujuan Teks Pidato
Penyusunan teks pidato memiliki sejumlah fungsi dan tujuan, antara lain untuk menyampaikan pendapat dengan kata-kata yang jelas. Berikut fungsi dan tujuan teks pidato selengkapnya.
- Sebagai ungkapan pikiran atau perasaan lewat kata-kata.
- Sebagai sarana untuk mengimbau atau memberi imbauan.
- Untuk memberi pengarahan.
- Untuk mempengaruhi dan membentuk pola pikir baru.
Contoh Pidato Bahasa Inggris Singkat
Setelah mengetahui pengertian dan struktur pidato bahasa Inggris di atas, sekarang saatnya kita menyusun teks pidato sendiri! Berikut beberapa contoh yang bisa kamu jadikan referensi atau panduan membuat teks pidato bahasa Inggris singkat dan menarik, dikutip dari berbagai sumber.
1. Contoh Pidato Bahasa Inggris Bill Gates
I've been waiting more than 30 years to say this: "Dad, I always told you I'd come back and get my degree."
I want to thank Harvard for this timely honor. I applaud the graduates today for taking a much more direct route to your degrees. For my part, I'm just happy that the Crimson has called me "Harvard's most successful dropout." I guess that makes me valedictorian of my own special class ... I did the best of everyone who failed.
Harvard was just a phenomenal experience for me. Academic life was fascinating. I used to sit in on lots of classes I hadn't even signed up for. And dorm life was terrific. There were always lots of people in my dorm room late at night discussing things, because everyone knew I didn't worry about getting up in the morning. That's how I came to be the leader of the anti-social group. We clung to each other as a way of validating our rejection of all those social people.
You graduates are coming of age in an amazing time. As you leave Harvard, you have technology that members of my class never had. You have awareness of global inequity, which we did not have. And with that awareness, you likely also have an informed conscience that will torment you if you abandon these people whose lives you could change with very little effort.
You have more than we had; you must start sooner, and carry on longer.
And I hope you will come back here to Harvard 30 years from now and reflect on what you have done with your talent and your energy. I hope you will judge yourselves not on your professional accomplishments alone, but also on how well you have addressed the world's deepest inequities on how well you treated people a world away who have nothing in common with you but their humanity.
Good luck.
2. Contoh Pidato Bahasa Inggris Barack Obama
Before I begin, I just want to send my condolences to the victims of the storms that hit Tennessee and Arkansas. They are in our thoughts and in our prayers.
Well, the polls are just closing in California and the votes are still being counted in cities and towns across the country. But there is one thing on this February night that we do not need the final results to know - our time has come, our movement is real, and change is coming to America.
On this Tuesday in February, in states North and South, East and West, what began as a whisper in Springfield has swelled to a chorus of millions calling for change. A chorus that cannot be ignored. That cannot be deterred. This time can be different because this campaign for the presidency is different.
It's different not because of me, but because of you. Because you are tired of being disappointed and tired of being let down. You're tired of hearing promises made and plans proposed in the heat of a campaign only to have nothing change when everyone goes back to capital. Because the lobbyists just write another check. Or because politicians start worrying about how they'll win the next election instead of why they should. Or because they focus on who's up and who's down instead of who matters.
You see, the challenges we face will not be solved with one meeting in one night. Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time.
We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek. We are the hope of those boys who have little; who've been told that they cannot have what they dream; that they cannot be what they imagine.
3. Contoh Pidato Bahasa Inggris Steve Jobs
I am honored to be with you today at your commencement from one of the finest universities in the world. I never graduated from college. Truth be told, this is the closest I've ever gotten to a college graduation. Today I want to tell you.. a story.. from my life. My story is about death.
When I was 17, I read a quote that went something like: "If you live each day as if it was your last, someday you'll most certainly be right." It made an impression on me, and since then, for the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: "If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?" And whenever the answer has been "No" for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.
About a year ago I was diagnosed with cancer. I lived with that diagnosis all day. I was sedated, but my wife, who was there, told me that when they viewed the cells under a microscope the doctors started crying because it turned out to be a very rare form of pancreatic cancer that is curable with surgery. I had the surgery and I'm fine now.
No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma, which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.
Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish. Thank you all very much.
4. Contoh Pidato Bahasa Inggris 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 today, 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 their captivity.
But one hundred years later, the Negro still is 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. In a sense we've 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, yes, black men as well as white men, would be guaranteed the "unalienable Rights" of "Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness." It is obvious today that America has defaulted on this promissory note, insofar as her citizens of color are concerned.
But there is something that I must say to my people, who stand on the warm threshold which leads into the palace of justice: In the process of gaining our rightful place, we must not be guilty of wrongful deeds. Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred. We must forever conduct our struggle on the high plane of dignity and discipline. We must not allow our creative protest to degenerate into physical violence. Again and again, we must rise to the majestic heights of meeting physical force with soul force.
And when we allow freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual:
Free at last! Free at last!
Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!
5. Contoh Pidato Bahasa Inggris Jacinda Arden
We gather here, 14 days on from our darkest of hours. In the days that have followed the terrorist attack on the 15th of March, we have often found oruselves without words. What words adequately express the pain and suffering of men, women, and children lost, and so many injured?
I thought there were none. And then I came here and was met with this simple greeting. As-salaam Alaikum. Peace be upon you.
They were words spoken by a community who, in the face of hate and violence, had every right to express anger but instead opened their doors for all of us to grieve with them. And so we say to those who have lost the most, we may not have always had the words.
Over the past two weeks we have heard the stories of those impacted by this terrorist attack. They were stories of bravery. They were stories of those who were born here, grew up here, or who had made New Zealand their home. Who had sought refuge, or sought a better life for themselves or their families.
These stories, they now form part of our collective memories. They will remain with us forever. They are us.
We will remember the tears of our nation, and the new resolve we have formed.
And we remember, that ours is a home that does not and cannot claim perfection. But we can strive to be true to the words embedded in our national anthem.
Tips Menulis Pidato Bahasa Inggris Singkat
Setelah melihat contoh-contoh di atas, kamu juga perlu memperhatikan tips-tips berikut ini agar pidato bahasa Inggris yang kamu sampaikan lebih menarik. Berikut tips menulis pidato bahasa Inggris singkat dilansir situs Kampung Inggris Pare.
1. Isi Pidato Lengkap
Pastikan pidato yang kamu sampaikan memiliki struktur yang lengkap seperti di atas. Awali dengan opening, sampaikan body atau isi pidato, kemudian tutup dengan ucapan terima kasih.
2. Buat Pidato yang Efektif
Tulislah pidato yang efektif dalam menarik audiens. Efektivitas bisa ditentukan dari maksud dan tujuan pidato serta sesuaikan dengan minat audiens.
3. Sampaikan Tema yang Menarik
Pilih tema pidato yang sesuai dengan materi terkini supaya pidatomu lebih segar. Hindari membahas materi yang sudah ketinggalan zaman atau sudah sering dijadikan materi pidato.
4. Perhatikan Penampilan Saat Berpidato
Penampilan saat berpidato juga penting dan dapat mempengaruhi pidatomu. Penampilan yang dimaksud bukan hanya fisik dan pakaian rapi, tapi juga gestur, bahasa tubuh, dan intonasi yang digunakan serta kejelasan vokal.
5. Gunakan Bahasa yang Mudah Dipahami
Berpidato dengan bahasa yang sulit mungkin terdengar lebih cerdas dan keren. Namun, utamakan agar bahasa yang kamu gunakan mudah dimengerti oleh pendengar. Pilihlah kosakata yang tepat dan sopan.
6. Berlatih Sebelum Pidato
Latihan sebelum pidato dapat membuatmu terbiasa untuk mengucapkan kata-kata dalam pidato serta lebih mematangkan materi yang akan dibawakan. Kamu bisa berlatih di depan cermin, di depan teman, atau di depan keluargamu.
7. Menguasai Materi dan Percaya Diri
Yang paling penting dalam berpidato bahasa Inggris adalah menguasai materi dan percaya diri. Jika kamu sudah memahami apa yang ingin kamu sampaikan, pidatomu akan berjalan dengan lebih lancar.
Nah, ternyata menyusun pidato bahasa Inggris mudah, kan? Selamat mencoba dan semoga sukses dengan pidatomu!
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