{"id":3037,"date":"2018-08-14T09:16:02","date_gmt":"2018-08-14T06:16:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/englishshouldbefun.com\/?p=3037"},"modified":"2018-08-14T09:16:02","modified_gmt":"2018-08-14T06:16:02","slug":"famous-speeches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/englishshouldbefun.com\/famous-speeches\/","title":{"rendered":"Famous Speeches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>All of these texts are from Newsela. Remember &#8211; you can change the difficulty of the text to suit your level.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-3026 size-medium aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/englishshouldbefun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Screen-Shot-2018-08-13-at-23.34.38-300x153.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"153\" srcset=\"https:\/\/englishshouldbefun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Screen-Shot-2018-08-13-at-23.34.38-300x153.png 300w, https:\/\/englishshouldbefun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Screen-Shot-2018-08-13-at-23.34.38-600x307.png 600w, https:\/\/englishshouldbefun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Screen-Shot-2018-08-13-at-23.34.38-768x393.png 768w, https:\/\/englishshouldbefun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Screen-Shot-2018-08-13-at-23.34.38-1024x524.png 1024w, https:\/\/englishshouldbefun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Screen-Shot-2018-08-13-at-23.34.38.png 1240w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It should be easy! If you understand less than 90% of the words, it&#8217;s too difficult for you.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Barack Obama &#8211;<\/span><span class=\"s2\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/newsela.com\/articles\/speeches-obama-dnckeynote\/id\/15629\/\"><span class=\"s3\">2004 Democratic Convention Address<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Barack Obama &#8211;<\/span><span class=\"s2\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/newsela.com\/articles\/speeches-obama-farewell\/id\/25631\/\"><span class=\"s3\">Farewell Address<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Donald Trump &#8211;<\/span><span class=\"s2\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/newsela.com\/articles\/speeches-trump-inauguration\/id\/25993\/\"><span class=\"s3\">Inaugural Address<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Donald Trump &#8211;<\/span><span class=\"s2\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/newsela.com\/articles\/speeches-trump-acceptance\/id\/23903\/\"><span class=\"s3\">Victory Speech<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Franklin D Roosevelt &#8211;<\/span><span class=\"s2\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/newsela.com\/articles\/speeches-fdroosevelt-pearlharbor\/id\/15439\/\"><span class=\"s3\">Pearl Harbor Address<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Harry Truman &#8211;<\/span><span class=\"s2\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/newsela.com\/articles\/speeches-htruman-hiroshima\/id\/16710\/\"><span class=\"s3\">Dropping the Atom Bomb on Hiroshima<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Martin Luther King &#8211;<\/span><span class=\"s2\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/newsela.com\/articles\/speeches-mlk-dream\/id\/18161\/\"><span class=\"s3\">&#8220;I Have a Dream&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Ronald Reagan &#8211;<\/span><span class=\"s2\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/newsela.com\/articles\/speeches-reagan-berlin-wall\/id\/26643\/\"><span class=\"s3\">&#8220;Tear Down This Wall&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Sojourner Truth &#8211;<\/span><span class=\"s2\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/newsela.com\/articles\/speeches-sojourner-truth-woman\/id\/19168\/\"><span class=\"s3\">&#8220;Ain&#8217;t I a Woman?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Steve Jobs &#8211;<\/span><span class=\"s2\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/newsela.com\/articles\/speeches-steve-jobs-apple-stanford\/id\/26021\/\"><span class=\"s3\">Stanford University Commencement Speech<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Winston Churchill &#8211; <\/span><span class=\"s2\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/newsela.com\/articles\/speeches-churchill-bloodsweattears\/id\/15423\/\"><span class=\"s3\">&#8220;Blood, Toil, Tears and Sweat&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All of these texts are from Newsela. Remember &#8211; you can change the difficulty of the text to suit your level. It should be easy! If you understand less than 90% of the words, it&#8217;s too difficult for you. Barack Obama &#8211; 2004 Democratic Convention Address Barack Obama &#8211; Farewell Address Donald Trump &#8211; Inaugural &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/englishshouldbefun.com\/famous-speeches\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Famous Speeches<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/englishshouldbefun.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3037"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/englishshouldbefun.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/englishshouldbefun.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/englishshouldbefun.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/englishshouldbefun.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3037"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/englishshouldbefun.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3037\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/englishshouldbefun.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/englishshouldbefun.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/englishshouldbefun.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}