Hello, everybody, and welcome to the final lesson in our unit, Victorian Childhood.

This lesson is called Victorian Childhood: Delivering Speeches.

Hi, I am Mr. Barnsley.

I am so excited to be with you all today.

I'm really looking forward to hearing these speeches that you have been working on during this unit of work.

So our outcome, by the end of the lesson, you will have delivered your speech confidently and clearly.

So our five keywords today are pace, rhythm, pause, vary, and expression.

Let's find out what they all mean.

So pace describes the speed in which you move or talk.

Rhythm describes the pattern or the flow of words, phrases, or sounds.

A temporary stop in action or in speech is called a pause.

To vary means to differ from something else.

And finally, an expression is a look on someone's face that conveys a very particular emotion.

Right, I'm really excited for today's lesson because I know how hard you've all been working on these speeches and I'm really looking forward to you being able to deliver them.

So our lesson today is broken down into two parts, the first of which is called the art of performing confidently, and then we'll be spending the majority of our lesson delivering your speeches to parliament.

So let's get started by making sure we understand the art of performing confidently.

So clear and confident delivery of your speeches is gonna require you to vary the pace and the rhythm of your speech.

You are gonna need to make sure you use punctuation to support you to add purposeful pauses.

Let's have a look at the opening of my speech.

Is there a more important issue for us, the great nation of Britain, to resolve than children's rights? Each morning, innocent children wake up from a rough night's sleep with nothing more than a pavement for a pillow.

Okay, let's have a look at how I can maybe deliver this with a bit more confidence.

Let's have a look at how I can maybe vary the pace and the rhythm of my speech, and also how I can use purposeful pauses here to improve the delivery.

So first of all, I'm gonna look at some of the punctuation.

These dashes around the great nation of Britain are gonna indicate a pause, and actually I'm gonna use these to help add a bit of drama to my delivery.

It might be that I use hand gestures here to gesture to the parliament in front of me.

So it might sound something like this.

Is there a more important issue for us, the great nation of Britain, and then I would continue with that line.

And the next piece of punctuation that stands out to me here is this question mark.

It tells me that I should raise the inflexion at the end of this sentence, because when you're asking a question, your voice naturally goes up at the end.

So, is there a more important issue for us to resolve than children's rights? I'm asking a question and I need to be very clear to my listeners, to parliament that I am asking them a question.

But I'm also gonna add a very deliberate, purposeful pause after this question, because I want that question to be kind of mulling around in my audience's head.

So I want to give them time to consider their response.

Even though it's rhetorical and I'm not gonna ask for a response from them, I still want 'em to be thinking about their own personal response to that question.

So I'm gonna add a pause.

Now, this more kind of complex, emotive sentence is gonna give me an opportunity to vary my pace.

So I think what I'm gonna do here is start quite quickly, but I'm gonna really slow down for that final kind of metaphor, a pavement for a pillow, because I really want to kind of draw attention to that because it's quite a shocking image and I really want to give my audience time to kind of think about that.

So it might sound something like this.

Each morning, innocent children wake up from a rough night's sleep with nothing more than a pavement for a pillow.

Notice there how I also softened the way I said it in comparison to that rhetorical question.

So I'm also kind of varying the pitch of my voice.

Okay, let's have a little bit of a discussion.

You can see a picture on the screen now of a man who is delivering a speech.

We can't hear what he's saying, we don't know what the content is, but how can we tell just from the nonverbal signs that this man is definitely communicating clearly? So you can either pause the video and have a discussion if you've got a partner, someone to discuss with.

Or if you are watching this at home by yourself, just pause the video and make a couple of notes on a bit of paper.

How do you know that this man is communicating clearly, even though we cannot hear what he's saying? Press Pause and press Play when you're ready to continue.

I heard some wonderful discussions there.

Well done, everybody.

These are the kind of things I was hearing.

So well done to people who pointed out that he's clearly giving good eye contact to his audience.

He's looking out to the people that he's speaking to and he is speaking directly to them.

He's also starting to use a bit of facial expression here.

There's kind of, his mouth is wide open.

There's almost a slight smile there suggests that whatever he's saying or whatever he's discussing is probably something a little bit more happy or upbeat.

But notice that hand, he's pointing out, he's reaching out to his audience, speaking directly to them.

So yes, one hand is holding a microphone, but he's using the other hand to engage his listeners.

Let's do a check for understanding now.

Which of the following is not going to create a confidently delivered speech? Which one of these is not going to create a confidently delivered speech? Is it A, hand gestures, B, facial expressions, C, a consistent pace, or D, pauses? Select your response now.

Well done.

It was of course a consistent pace.

We want to vary our pace, speed up, slow our speech down to make sure we are drawing our listeners' attention to the key parts.

We also know that hand gestures, facial expressions, and pauses are all gonna be really important in creating a really confidently delivered speech.

Right, over to you to start preparing for your delivery.

So what I'd like you to do is annotate your speech with a few instructions on how you're going to deliver it.

So for example, if this was the opening of my speech, I may add in here that I was gonna pause before delivery and gesturing to the whole room.

After this question, I'm gonna make a note to myself that my voice needs to rise, but also I want to pause to give the audience time to think.

And in this sentence I want to vary pace.

So I want you to pause the video now, go back over your speech and annotate it, label it with some instructions, some reminders for you on how you are going to deliver this speech.

Remember to press Play when you are ready to continue.

All right, great job.

I can see some fantastic ideas there and I'm really excited to see what these will look like when you deliver your speeches.

So let's take a moment before we move on to read back over those annotations that we've just added, and let's assess them against our success criteria.

Identify where we've done the following.

So where have you used punctuation to indicate pausing for effect? Look out for where you have indicated where you are gonna vary your pace.

Look out for where you've indicated where you will change your facial expression And look out for where you've indicated where you will use hand gestures.

Pause the video now and give yourself a few moments to reflect over your annotations and see where you've hit today's success criteria.

Press Play when you are ready to continue.

Right, this is the moment we have been building up for.

We are about to deliver our speeches to parliament.

Before we do, let's make sure we all know how to be a great audience.

So can you have a quick discussion? How can you be a good member of the audience when someone is delivering their speech? Pause the video, have a discussion, or make a couple of notes and press Play when you are ready to continue.

Some really good discussion there.

I had some great ideas.

I'm just gonna pause and share some of the best ones with us.

So first is silence.

Being respectful.

We shouldn't be talking when other people are delivering their speeches.

We need to make sure we give them the respect they deserve.

It's tricky work standing in front of a group of people and delivering a speech, so we are gonna be respectful and sit in silence.

We are also going to track the speaker.

That means that we should be looking at the speaker as they deliver their speech.

We shouldn't be looking at the floor, looking at the table, looking out the window.

We should always be focused on the speaker.

Not only does that mean that we are being polite, it also means that we are going to be following their whole argument and we won't miss any small details.

Finally, we might need to be prepared to offer feedback, because remember here we are delivering to parliament.

So if we are the audience today, we are gonna be the members of parliament.

So we will have an opportunity to give some feedback on speeches True or false now? You should always track the speaker.

So when you are listening to someone speak, you should always track the speaker, follow them with your eyes.

Is this true or false? Make your choice now.

That is of course true, but why is it true? Can you justify your response for me? A, because it enables you to hear them better, or B, because it is polite and it encourages you to pay attention, meaning that you are less likely to miss details of their speech? A or B, which is the justification for your answer? Select your response now.

That is of course B.

It's just polite, but it also will make sure that you are paying attention and you are less likely to miss details.

Okay, it is over to you.

It is now time for you to deliver your speeches to the British government of 1850, remembering that our job here is to persuade them to do much more to support working class children.

You're gonna pause the video as speeches are delivered, but after the first speech is delivered, I want you to press Play so you can see the feedback that the audience, the government are going to give.

So that's how we're gonna work this.

Deliver a speech, give some feedback.

Deliver a speech, give some feedback.

If you are doing this at home, find an audience, find someone who can listen to your speech, 'cause it is really important that you practise delivering your speeches out loud to people who can give you some feedback.

Okay, ready for the first speech.

Pause the video and press Play when you are ready to give feedback.

Great job.

It's never easy delivering a speech to an audience.

So I'm really, really impressed with how you just did.

It's now time for some feedback.

So the audience, you are parliament.

After you've listened to a speech, I want you to come to a decision about the changes that you are going to make.

So I'm gonna ask for someone to give feedback and they are gonna use the sentence stems on the screen now.

Your speech persuaded me to.

Okay, so tell them what changes you are going to make.

But the important bit here is being able to identify how they were successful in changing your mind.

So you did this through successfully using, was it a language device, or was it a structural technique that kind of helped persuade you? So now pause the video and let's give some feedback to someone who has delivered a speech.

Remember, if there is more than one of you if you are working in a pair or in groups, you need to now go back and deliver another speech and give feedback.

If you're working from home by yourself, make sure whoever's listened to you can give you some really clear feedback.

Pause the video and give some feedback now.

Right, that's it.

We've reached the end of today's lesson.

So let's do a quick summary of what we've learned in Victorian Childhood: Delivering Speeches.

Well, first of all, we've learned that varying pace and rhythm can help support with presenting the meaning of a text.

We learned that pausing can help vary the pace and the rhythm.

We've learned that using facial expressions can help support with expressing mood or attitude.

And we've learned that using eye contact and hand gestures are useful for holding an audience's attention.

Make sure you do the exit quiz because that will test all the knowledge that you've learned in today's lesson.

And now we've actually reached the end of this unit, Victorian Childhood.

I have been so impressed with how you've dealt with learning about some really difficult context, complex context about the Victorian society.

You did this through reading some really challenging text, both as a class and independently.

And I've been really pleased how you've used reading skills like predicting and questioning and summarising to check your understanding.

And in the second half of this unit, I've been really pleased to see your persuasive writing skills develop.

And it's been great to hear you deliver your speeches with such confidence.

Thank you for joining me for Victorian Childhood.

Goodbye.