How Emma Watson connects with an audience
Lesson details
Learning outcome
I understand how the use of personal experiences and anecdotes can help connect to an audience.
Key learning points
- A speaker can connect with an audience in a variety of different ways.
- A speaker can use personal experiences and anecdotes to connect with an audience.
- Emma Watson is an actress and she is best-known for playing Hermione in the Harry Potter films.
- Emma Watson is an activist, humanitarian and speaker, who gave a famous speech as UN Women Goodwill Ambassador in 2014.
Keywords
Audience - a group of people listening to or watching a performance or speaker
Activist - a person who campaigns to bring about political or social change
Humanitarian - someone who cares about the well-being of other people and works to help those in need
Anecdotes - short stories from a person's real life
Common misconception
Pupils may not know what 'feminism' or 'feminist' means.
Ensure that before beginning this lesson, you have developed pupils' understanding of what feminism is. You could use PSHE sessions to explore this in more depth.
Teacher tip
Prepare the video clip of Emma Watson's speech as UN Women Goodwill Ambassador in 2014 at the UN headquarters in New York in advance of the lesson so it is ready for repeated use throughout the lesson. This can be found online.
Equipment
You will need access to a video clip of Emma Watson's speech as UN Women Goodwill Ambassador in 2014 at the UN headquarters in New York.
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Prior knowledge starter quiz
6 Questions
Q1.A speech is always written and presented to have an __________ on an audience.
Q2.What is the best definition of emotive?
Q3.Fill in the blanks in the following sentence: 'An audience __________ and __________ to a speech.'
Q4.Match each key word to the correct definition.
to convince or to make someone agree with you
the communication of someone’s thoughts, through words, to an audience
to stir up feelings or emotions
Q5.True or false? The environment is the man-made objects in the world.
Q6.An environmentalist is someone who cares very much about the __________ world.
Assessment exit quiz
6 Questions
Q1.What is an activist? Choose the best definition.
Q2.An anecdote is a __________ about someone's life.
Q3.In what year did Emma Watson give her famous HeForShe campaign launch speech as UN Women Goodwill Ambassador?
Q4.Match each key word to the correct definition.
to imagine yourself in someone else's shoes
a short story from a person's real life
to stir up feelings or emotions
Q5.True or false? Gender equality is when people's access to rights or opportunities is not affected by their gender.
Q6.True or false? Boys shouldn't bake cakes because it's much more of a girly activity.
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