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Delivering speeches about supporting Victorian working class children

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Key learning points

  1. Varying pace and rhythm can help support with presenting the meaning of a text.
  2. Pauses can help vary pace and rhythm.
  3. Facial expressions can help support with expressing mood or attitude.
  4. Eye contact and hand gestures are useful for holding an audience's attention.

Keywords

  • Pace - pace describes the speed in which you move or talk.

  • Rhythm - rhythm describes the pattern or flow of words, phrases and sounds.

  • Pause - a temporary stop in action or speech is called a pause.

  • Vary - to vary means to differ from something else.

  • Expression - an expression is a look on someone’s face that conveys a particular emotion.

Common misconception

Clear and confident delivery of speeches requires a consistent pace of delivery throughout.

Model the delivery of a sentence which starts at pace, but slows down to draw attention to particular vocabulary choices.


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6 Questions

Q1.
Why could so few Victorian children go to school?
They did not have to so they chose not to go.
They did not have to.
Correct answer: It cost money which some families could not afford.
Q2.
The children of which social class were most likely to be hungry?
Correct Answer: working class, lower class, working-class, lower-class
Q3.
Which of the following is not a rhetorical device?
Rhetorical question
Direct address
Anaphora
Correct answer: Simile
Emotive language
Q4.
What does the word vary mean?
Vary means to be exactly the same as something else.
Vary means there is a lot of something.
Correct answer: Vary means to differ from something else.
Q5.
Why did a lack of education so frequently lead to poverty in Victorian Britain? Select the best answer.
Lack of education leads to crime.
Correct answer: Lack of education leads to a lack of opportunity for well paid work.
Lack of education left people unable to work.
Q6.
Which of the following was not a social value in Victorian Britain?
Correct answer: Freedom of expression
Discipline
Responsibility

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6 Questions

Q1.
Which of the following is the definition of pause?
The speed in which you move or talk.
The pattern or flow of words, phrases and sounds.
Correct answer: A temporary stop in action or speech.
A look on someone’s face that conveys a particular emotion.
Q2.
The following is the definition of which word: this word describes the speed in which you move or talk.
Correct Answer: Pace, pace
Q3.
Which of the following is the definition of expression?
The speed in which you move or talk.
The pattern or flow of words, phrases and sounds.
A temporary stop in action or speech.
Correct answer: A look on someone’s face that conveys a particular emotion.
Q4.
Which of the following is the definition of rhythm?
The speed in which you move or talk.
Correct answer: The pattern or flow of words, phrases and sounds.
A temporary stop in action or speech.
A look on someone’s face that conveys a particular emotion.
Q5.
Why should you track the speaker? Select two responses.
Correct answer: It is polite.
You can hear them better.
Correct answer: It helps you concentrate on what is being said.
Q6.
Why are facial expressions so important when delivering a speech?
They make the speech more interesting.
Correct answer: They express mood or attitude towards a topic.
It helps people understand your speech.