How Martin Luther King engages an audience
I can understand how repetition can be used to engage an audience when delivering a speech.
How Martin Luther King engages an audience
I can understand how repetition can be used to engage an audience when delivering a speech.
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Key learning points
- A speaker can engage an audience through a variety of techniques, including repetition.
- Martin Luther King Jr.'s famous speech entitled 'I Have A Dream' uses repetition to engage the audience.
- ‘I Have a Dream’ by Martin Luther King Jr. was written to help bring about racial equality.
Keywords
Audience - a group of people listening or watching a performance or speaker
Engage - to get or hold the interest of
Repetition - when a key word or phrase is said more than once in order to reinforce a point
Common misconception
Pupils may think that repetition involves repeating just one word.
Teach pupils that repetition is often most impactful when repeating a phrase at the start of a sentence.
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You will need access to a clip of Martin Luther King's 'I have a dream' speech.
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- Depiction or discussion of discriminatory behaviour
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