Lesson video

Hi everybody.

I'm Ms Gardner.

Thank you so much for joining us on this lesson today.

I'm really excited for today's learning.

I think it's gonna be a really great lesson.

So I hope you are too, and let's get started.

Today is a really exciting lesson because you get to present your non-chronological report to an audience.

So learning outcome is, I can present a non-chronological report about Portia spiders.

Let's have a look at the keywords.

We'll do my turn, your turn.

So I'll say the word first and then you can say it back to the screen or in the classroom.

Presenting.

Rehearsing.

Diction.

Eye contact.

Body language.

Let's have a look at what these mean.

Presenting involves speaking in front of others and listening to others.

Rehearsing is practising something before it is performed in order to get better at it.

So you might do a rehearsal for a class assembly or a play at school to make you feel more confident when you perform.

Diction involves pronouncing words clearly.

Eye contact involves looking into the eyes of the people in our audience.

Body language refers to how we use our posture and our gestures to communicate meaning and feelings.

So there are two sections of our lesson today.

In the first, we'll be preparing to present and then in the second one we'll be presenting a non-chronological report to our audience.

So let's start with preparing to present.

Presenting can be an important final stage of the writing process.

Presenting can be a way of sharing information or showing something that you've written to other people that you're really proud of and that you want them to hear.

Presenting involves speaking in front of others, but also listening to others being the audience.

When presenting, we need to think about all of these things.

Volume.

Diction.

Eye contact.

Body language, and pace.

Let's have a look first at volume and what that means.

It is important that when we present we speak at an appropriate volume.

We must speak loudly enough so the listeners can hear.

But we must not shout or yell or try to speak when others are speaking Because then no one can hear anything properly.

But also we can't be too quiet.

If you whisper or if you mumble under your breath or if you mutter your words, your listeners will not be able to hear your presentation.

So let's check for understanding.

True or false.

We should mutter when we are presenting to others.

Pause the video here.

That is false.

Can you use A or B to justify your answer? A, muttering under your breath will ensure the audience can hear you.

Or B, talking in a loud clear voice is important so the audience can hear you.

Pause the video here.

That is correct, it is B.

We don't want to be muttering under our breath because then the audience can't hear you, like this, (Ms Gardner mumbling) It's hard for you to be able to hear.

So we want to talk in a loud, clear voice.

When presenting we also need to think about diction.

Let's have a look at what this means.

Diction involves pronouncing words clearly and correctly.

Diction is very important because our audience needs to be able to understand what we are saying.

When speaking with clear diction, we take our time to pronounce our words carefully.

So this may involve saying some tricky subject specific vocabulary before so we can pronounce it clearly in our presentations.

We might need to practise those words and we're going to do that later.

Let's check for understanding.

Speaking with clear diction is important because, A, it helps the audience understand the words we are saying.

B, it helps us slow down and pronounce tricky words correctly.

Or C, it makes us speak quickly.

Pause the video now.

That is correct, it is A and B.

Well done everyone.

When presenting we also need to think about eye contact.

Eye contact involves looking into the eyes of the people in our audience.

Eye contact is really important because it helps us to connect with our audience and for them to feel connected to us.

And when the audience feel connected to us, they are going to find what we have to say more interesting and will probably be listening more carefully to what we have to say.

What's important because we don't expect you to know and remember your non-chronological report off by heart.

So you will have it on a piece of paper for you to look at.

But if you are holding a piece of paper, it is important that you are looking up at the audience as you read.

You don't want to keep your eyes fixed on the piece of paper because then the audience can't see your face.

So checking for understanding.

True or false.

Eye contact involves looking down at your notes when presenting.

Pause the video here.

It is false.

Could you use A or B to justify your answer? A, eye contact involves looking into the eyes of the audience when presenting.

Or B, eye contact involves focusing on your notes so that you know what to say.

Pause the video now.

That is correct.

It is A.

Eye contact involves looking into the eyes of your audience.

Well done everybody.

Now we need to think about body language.

Body language refers to how we hold ourselves and parts of our body, like our hands or our shoulders when presenting.

Body language helps others understand how you feel and what you're saying, even if you don't say a word.

Body language is very important because it helps us to look confident even if we might not be feeling so confident when we're standing in front of an audience.

So strong body language includes all of these things, standing with our feet shoulder-width apart.

So no you don't want your feet too close together, but you also don't want them really, really far apart.

Speaking with our chin up.

So we can see our audience and our audience can see our face and standing with our shoulders back.

If we stand with our shoulders hunched like this, it can make us seem a bit more nervous and a bit shy.

So let's check for understanding.

When presenting, confident body language includes, A, speaking with our chin up.

B, standing with our shoulders back.

C, hunching our shoulders.

Or D, standing with our feet shoulder-width apart.

Pause the video here.

Okay, so confident body language includes, A, speaking with our chin up.

B, standing with our shoulders back and D standing with our feet shoulder-width apart.

We don't want C, hunching our shoulders because that makes us look a little bit nervous.

Well done everyone.

Okay finally, we also when presenting need to think about pace.

Pace refers to the speed at which we speak.

If we speak too quickly, our audience may not be able to clearly hear what we're saying, like this, If we speak too quickly, our audience may not be able to clearly hear what we are saying.

That's quite hard for you to hear 'cause I spoke so quickly.

But also if we speak too slowly, our audience may lose interest in what we are saying, like this, if we speak too slowly our audience may lose interest.

Do you see? It's less engaging if I'm speaking that slowly.

So speaking at the correct pace will give us more time to use an appropriate volume, speak with clear diction and be able to make eye contact with our audience.

So it's time for task A.

You need to match the key aspects of successful presenting to their definitions.

So the five key aspects are volume, diction, eye contact, body language and pace.

And the options of definitions are, the speed at which we speak.

Our posture, stance and gestures which help convey meaning and emotions.

How quiet or loud a sound is.

Pronouncing all our words clearly.

And looking audience members in the eye.

Pause the video now and have a go at matching the key aspects of presenting to their definitions.

Okay, let's go through the answers.

Volume is how quiet or loud a sound is.

Diction, pronouncing all our words clearly and correctly.

Eye contact, looking audience members in the eye.

Body language, our posture, stance and gestures which help convey meaning and emotions.

And pace, the speed at which we speak.

Well done everybody.

It's now time to present a non-chronological report.

We are now familiar with the aspects of effective presenting.

We've spoken about volume, diction, eye contact, body language and pace and how important it is that we think about all of those aspects.

We're just going to now think a bit more carefully about diction because diction involves pronouncing words clearly and correctly.

So that means we do need to practise this.

This may involve practising saying some tricky subject specific vocabulary so that we pronounce it clearly in our presentation.

In our non-chronological reports on the Portia spider, there might be some subject specific vocabulary that is tricky to say.

Some of these words might be polysyllabic, which means they have several syllables.

So basically it means they're quite long.

They might be words we just don't use very often.

They might not be decodeable using our phonic knowledge.

So we can't use the phonic sounds that we know to help us read it.

It's important to practise saying these tricky words before presenting it to others.

So I had to read back through my non-chronological report and I picked out some of the words that I thought I should practise before I present them.

There's different reasons but they seem to be a bit trickier than others.

But first, species.

The c in the middle actually makes the sh sound which is quite unusual.

So species was difficult for me to say.

Then specially-adapted, that's a really long word.

It's actually two words joined together with a hyphen.

So I thought because it's polysyllabic I'd practise that.

Unique, I also thought was tricky because of the Q-U-E at the end.

Distinctive, another really long polysyllabic word that I wanted to practise and that I really don't use often in everyday life.

And finally, venomous which means poisonous.

But again, a pretty tricky word to say because I don't say it very often.

Let's just check for understanding of these words.

Say these tricky words to your partner or to the screen and then we'll go through them and you need to check if you have pronounced them correctly.

So these are the five words we looked at in the first two sections of my non-chronological report.

Pause the video now and have a go practising saying these tricky words.

Okay, well done everybody.

Let's go through them.

Hold them in your head.

Try to remember how you pronounced them just earlier and think, did you pronounce them correctly? Species.

Specially-adapted.

Unique.

Distinctive.

Venomous.

If you got any of those, if you pronounce any of those a bit wrong or if you just want to practise, pause the video now and have another go.

But let's look, now at the second two sections of my non-chronological report and the tricky words to say in these two sections.

The first was stationary.

I could see the word station and then ary, but you don't pronounce it as stationary, you pronounce it as stationary.

So that was a word I wanted to practise.

Agile.

The G makes the J sound, J sound not the G.

It's not agile, it is agile.

So I wanted to practise that.

Unsuspecting, a really long polysyllabic word.

And certain, again the c making the s sound not a x sound.

So I wanted to practise that.

Let's check our understanding of these.

Say these tricky words to your partner or to the screen and then we'll go through them and I want you to think if you did pronounce them correctly.

Here the four words are.

So pause the video now.

Okay, let's see if we pronounced these all correctly.

The first one was stationary, then agile, then unsuspecting and finally certain.

If you mispronounce any of these, don't worry just pause the video now and have another practise.

But well done everybody.

So rehearsing, you might do rehearsals at school before a play or assembly.

Rehearsing is when you practise something before you perform in order to get better at it.

If you make a mistake when you're rehearsing, it doesn't matter at all because you can learn from this to make your performance even better.

When you rehearse, try to think about these things- Try to think about these things like you would when performing in front of an audience.

You'll need to think about the volume, diction, eye contact, body language and pace.

So really you want in your rehearsal to speak just like you would in the real performance.

So let's practise presenting our introduction.

I'm going to read the introduction of my non-chronological report on the Portia spider and I'm gonna be thinking about all of those things.

Volume, eye contact, body language, pace and diction.

Doesn't matter if I make a mistake in my rehearsal because that's why we rehearse.

So I'm making sure I'm standing up with my legs shoulder-width apart, my chin is up and I got my eyes in the camera because that's where my audience is.

And I want to maintain eye contact with my audience as much as possible.

Introduction, "The Portia spider is a minuscule, poisonous creature and it lives in rainforests all over the world.

This report will report you about, will inform you about the speakies." Ooh, that's not how I pronounce it.

I know that from practising my subject specific vocab earlier.

Doesn't matter, I'm just gonna say it again in practise.

"This report will inform you about the species' diet, appearance, and hunting strategies.

Listen carefully to find out more about this fascinating arachnid." Now it's your turn to practise presenting your introduction.

Ensure you use the checklist below.

Volume, diction, eye contact, body language and pace.

Pause the video now and practise presenting your introduction.

Okay, it's time for task B where we are going to be presenting our non-chronological report.

The first part of task B, you are going to present the introduction and the first section.

So the appearance section of your non-chronological report.

You need to think about these things.

Speak at a volume that ensures all members of the audience can hear you.

Speak with clear diction so your audience can understand every word you say.

Make eye contact with all audience members in order to form connections with them as you speak.

Use strong body language to convey the information confidently and speak at a slow and clear pace.

Pause the video now and off you go presenting the first two sections of your non-chronological report.

Well done everyone.

I hope you all enjoyed that.

I wonder, did you remember to do all of these things? Did you speak at a volume so that all members of the audience could hear you? Did you speak with clear diction so the audience could understand every word? Did you make eye contact with the audience members in order to form connections with them? Did you use strong body language to convey the information confidently? And did you speak at a slow clear pace? If you feel like you didn't do some of those things, you'll be able to do them again in the next two sections and have another go.

But really well done everyone for presenting the first two sections.

We now want to do another rehearsal.

We're now going to practise presenting the second section, the section on hunting.

Again, when we rehearse, we want to think about the volume that we're speaking in, this pace.

We need to think about eye contact and body language and also diction just like we would with the real thing.

So in my rehearsal, I'm gonna make sure I'm standing with my feet shoulder-width apart.

I'm making eye contact with the camera and I'm thinking about my volume and pace.

Hunting.

"The Portia spider is a skilled hunter and it has an interesting diet." I actually think I spoke too quickly in that sentence, so I'm gonna start again, but that's okay.

It's a rehearsal.

I can make these mistakes.

Hunting.

"The Portia spider is a skilled hunter and it has an interesting diet.

Amazingly, the Portia spider can eat stationary spiders up to three times its own size.

The agile predator can change the way it hunts depending on its prey and its locatin." That doesn't sound right.

Let me have a look again, location.

I'm gonna practise saying that one more time, location.

"The Portia spider can abseil down behind its unsuspecting prey and it begins a surprise attack with its poisonous fangs.

In addition, the prey is lured to the Portia spider because the predator imitates a trapped spider that is stuck in its web." It's now time for you to practise presenting your second section.

Ensure you use the checklist below and are thinking about volume, diction, eye contact, body language, and pace.

Remember, it doesn't matter if you make any mistakes, that's what rehearsals are for.

So pause the video now.

Okay, it's now time for part two of Task B where you will present your second section and the conclusion of your non-chronological report.

I want you to think about speaking at a volume that ensures everyone can hear you.

Speaking with clear diction so every word is pronounced clearly and correctly.

Make eye contact with audience members in order to form connections with them.

Use strong body language so that you stand really confidently and convey the information confidently and speak at a slow and clear pace.

Pause the video now and off you go presenting your second section and the conclusion of your non-chronological report.

Welcome back everybody.

I hope you enjoyed presenting your final two sections, sorry.

Did you remember to do all these things? Did you speak at a volume that everyone could hear you? Did you speak with clear diction? So the audience could understand every word you said.

Did you make eye contact with the audience members? Did you use strong body language to convey the information confidently? And did you speak at a slow, clear pace? I'm sure you all did brilliantly.

So really well done.

Let's just summarise everything we've learned in today's lesson about presenting.

Presenting involves speaking in front of others and listening to others.

Effective presenting involves using appropriate volume, speaking with clear diction, making eye contact with the audience and using strong body language when speaking.

Speaking at a calm and slow pace helps the audience track what we're saying.

Some words are tricky to say.

By identifying these words and practising saying them, we make it easier to pronounce them with clear diction when it comes to presenting.

Fantastic job everybody.

Well done.