How Malala Yousafzai uses humour and anecdotes in a speech
Lesson details
Learning outcome
I understand how the use of humour and anecdotes can help connect to an audience.
Key learning points
- A speaker can use humour to build a relationship with an audience.
- Telling anecdotes in a speech can help an audience to feel connected to a speaker.
- Malala Yousafzai is an activist and actively campaigns for children's rights to education and women's rights worldwide.
- She is also a humanitarian, advocate and public speaker, who was the youngest winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in 2014.
Keywords
Anecdotes - short stories from a person's real life
Advocate - someone who speaks up for or supports a cause, idea or person
Activist - a person who campaigns to bring about political or social change
Humour - the quality of being funny or amusing
Common misconception
Pupils may not know about the differences in children's rights to education around the world.
Ensure that before beginning this lesson, you have developed pupils' understanding of how children's rights to education are different around the world. You could use PSHE sessions to explore this in more depth.
Teacher tip
Prepare the video clip of Malala Yousafzai's acceptance speech, as the winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in 2014, 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 the video clip of Malala Yousafzai's acceptance speech, as the winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in 2014.
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Prior knowledge starter quiz
6 Questions
Q1.What is an activist? Choose the best definition.
Q2.An anecdote is a short about someone's life.
Q3.Match each keyword to the correct definition.
a group of people who watch and listen to a performance or speaker
to stir up feelings or emotions
to imagine yourself in someone else's shoes
to convince or to make someone agree with you
Q4.Fill in the blanks in the following sentence: An audience __________ and __________ to a speech.
Q5.True or false? Gender equality is about making sure that people's rights and opportunities are affected by what gender they are.
Q6.True or false? Some children in the world shouldn't have the right to an education.
Assessment exit quiz
6 Questions
Q1.In which country was Malala Yousafzai born?
Q2.What age was Malala Yousafzai when she started campaigning for children's rights to education?
Q3.Which prestigious and famous prize did Malala Yousafzai win at the age of 14?
Q4.Malala Yousafzai has fought tirelessly for children's to education.
Q5.What is an advocate?
Q6.Select the word family derived from the word humour.
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