Delivering speeches about supporting Victorian working class children
Lesson details
Learning outcome
I can deliver my speech confidently and clearly.
Key learning points
- Varying pace and rhythm can help support with presenting the meaning of a text.
- Pauses can help vary pace and rhythm.
- Facial expressions can help support with expressing mood or attitude.
- 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.
Teacher tip
If you do not have time for all pupils to deliver speeches individually, place students in groups and get them to perform to an audience of 4-5 other students.
Content guidance
Depiction or discussion of discriminatory behaviour
Supervision
Adult supervision recommended
Licence
Lesson video
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Prior knowledge starter quiz
6 Questions
Q1.Why could so few Victorian children go to school?
Q2.The children of which social class were most likely to be hungry?
Q3.Which of the following is not a rhetorical device?
Q4.What does the word vary mean?
Q5.Why did a lack of education so frequently lead to poverty in Victorian Britain? Select the best answer.
Q6.Which of the following was not a social value in Victorian Britain?
Assessment exit quiz
6 Questions
Q1.Which of the following is the definition of pause?
Q2.The following is the definition of which word: this word describes the speed in which you move or talk.
Q3.Which of the following is the definition of expression?
Q4.Which of the following is the definition of rhythm?
Q5.Why should you track the speaker? Select two responses.
Q6.Why are facial expressions so important when delivering a speech?
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