Lesson video

Hello everyone.

It's Mr. Brown with your English lesson for today, and we are going to be focusing on delivering a speech, really digging into what it takes to deliver a speech effectively to an audience.

So let's get started.

The lesson outcome for today is I can deliver a speech to an audience.

And here are the keywords which will help you with your learning today.

We have delivery, eye contact, pauses, gestures, and the last one is volume.

Let's go through those words again.

I will say the word I'd like you to repeat after me.

So my turn, your turn, my turn first.

Delivery.

Very good.

Eye contact, pauses, gestures, volume.

Here are the definitions for our keywords.

Delivery refers to the way in which something is presented to an audience.

Eye contact is when a person is looking directly into someone else's eyes when speaking to them.

Pauses are temporary stops or breaks in something.

Gestures are physical movements made with the hands, arms, and other body parts.

And the last keyword is volume and that refers to how loud or quiet something is.

Delivery, eye contact, pauses, gestures, and volume.

Our keywords for the lesson today.

Okay, let's take a look at the lesson outline.

We are going to be starting with looking at introducing a speech.

Before you start your speech, you'll need to introduce yourself and the speech, and we'll be focusing on that first.

We'll then move our learning onto looking at delivering a speech.

So let's look at introducing a speech.

Preparing thoroughly and writing an impactful speech is very important.

However, a great speech is nothing without great delivery.

Delivery refers to the way in which something is presented to an audience.

A speaker must present their speech in a way that convinces the audience is authentic, professional, and easy to listen to and watch.

So not an easy task.

There is a lot that needs to be thought about and done to ensure that our delivery is spot on.

It all starts like many things with a first impression.

First impressions are really important.

There's lots of research that says that people can make their mind up about someone.

Often after a few seconds of meeting them, they decide whether this person knows what they're talking about or is a serious person or is a person that perhaps shouldn't be taken seriously.

And that's why our first impression needs to be right.

First impressions are important, and the way a speaker introduces themselves is the first part of delivering their speech effectively.

But what should an introduction involve? Have a think.

What should an introduction involve? If you are making a speech before you start that speech, you're going to introduce yourself.

But what else would you do in that introduction? Let's take a look and see introducing yourself and your speech is an important job.

A good introduction will include the following things, a polite greeting directed to the audience, stating your name, saying what you are doing and the speech title.

These are the important things that your introduction must include.

Let's check your understanding.

Which of these would not be included in a speaker's introduction? Would it be A, a polite greeting directed to the audience? B, stating their name.

C, sharing their age Or D, saying what they are doing and the speech title.

Which of these would not be included in a speaker's introduction? A polite greeting directed to the audience, stating their name, sharing their age, saying what they are doing and the speech title.

Which would not be included? Pause the video and decide for yourself now.

And welcome back.

Okay, let's have a think about this.

So which would not be included, A polite greeting directed to the audience.

Absolutely, that must be in there.

You need to make that first impression count by giving a polite greeting.

We're gonna look at those shortly about the kind of things you might say, but greeting the audience, absolutely.

B, stating their name, but it's really important the audience know who you are to build that relationship with an audience.

The easiest way to do that is to introduce yourself, tell them your name.

So it's not B.

So we're down to sharing their age, C.

Or saying what they are doing in the speech title, D.

Now sharing their age.

Sometimes children do this, they might say, "Hello, my name is hmm, and I am age nine." But is it relevant to our speech? Do the audience need to know how old you are? Do we want to perhaps when we're making a speech, even appear a bit older than we are by delivering it in a professional and mature way? Sharing their age is not something that will be included in a speaker's introduction.

Saying what they're doing and the speech title.

Well, that is incredibly important.

You need to say that you are there to make a speech and let them know what the title is.

So well done if you said C, sharing their age would not be included in a speaker's introduction.

Here's an example of what a speaker may say for each part of their introduction.

So we'll look at each part step by step one by one, and we'll see some examples of the kind of things you might use.

A warm greeting directed to the audience.

Very important.

Let's get that first impression right.

You may say something like, "Good morning ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls." I like the idea of saying good morning or good afternoon or even good evening if your speech is being delivered in the evening, addressing the audience in a formal way.

Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, this straightaway sets the tone that you are a polite person and you are doing something that's a bit more formal than just chatting in the background.

You're standing up and delivering a speech.

Stating your name.

My name is Mr. Brown.

This is quite a simple part.

You just need to introduce yourself.

Say your name, my name is, and then you'll give your name.

Saying what you are doing and the speech title.

I'm here today to deliver a speech entitled and then we say what the speech title is.

Now you might change the wording of these very slightly.

You might say, "I'm here today to deliver a speech to you all and the title of my speech is," but you can see it's the same purpose, it's the same point each time.

You are trying to build that relationship with the audience.

A warm greeting, state your name, saying what you're doing and the speech title.

Let's have a practise.

I would like you to practise introducing yourself to an audience.

Remember to include the following things; a polite greeting directed to the audience, stating your name, saying what you are doing, and the speech title.

Now you can either make up your own speech title or you are welcome to use this one.

"The Best Way to Spend a Saturday Afternoon." That's the speech title I'll be using in today's lesson, and you are welcome to use it too.

So practise introducing yourself to an audience.

Remember to include the following three things; polite greeting directed to the audience, stating your name, and saying what you're doing, and the speech title.

And you can use your own speech title or borrow mine.

Pause the video and have a go yourself.

And welcome back.

I am sure you did a fantastic job, but just take a moment to reflect.

Did you include a polite greeting directed to the audience? Did you state your name and did you say what you were doing? And the speech title.

Have a moment to think.

If you delivered your speech to an audience or to someone at home, you could even ask them if you did those things.

Let me show you an example and you can have a look and see if I can do each of these.

Good morning ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, my name is Mr. Brown and I am delighted to be here today to deliver a speech entitled "The Best Way to Spend a Saturday Afternoon." And that's it.

That's my introduction.

I've included a polite greeting directed to the audience.

I said, "Good morning ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls." I stated my name.

My name is Mr. Brown.

I added a bit here, did you see? And I am delighted to be here today to deliver a speech.

I didn't just say that this is my speech title.

I said what I'm doing, I'm here to deliver a speech, but I added, "I am delighted to be here today." Just reinforcing that positivity, letting the audience know that I'm happy to be here.

Okay, let's move on to the second part of our lesson outline.

We are going to be focusing on now, delivering a speech.

The delivery of a speech is very important.

I'm going to say that one more time because it it is essential.

The delivery of a speech is very important.

A speech can be well written, follow the PEPS structure, have convincing reasoning, but if it's not delivered well the speaker will not be able to have the desired impact on the audience and achieve their purpose.

So no matter how good your speech is, it might be brilliantly written for the PEPS structure, have great arguments, but if it's not delivered well, it's not going to have the impact that you want.

So my question to you is how do we deliver a speech? Well, we know we need to do it, but how? Take a moment to think.

This could even be an opportunity for you to pause the video and talk to someone around you.

How can we deliver a speech well? What does that look like? Take a moment.

A well delivered speech will include the speaker doing the following things: making eye contact with as many members of the audience as possible.

Eye contact is when you are looking directly at someone else while you are speaking, just like I am doing right now when I'm directly looking at the camera to speak to you.

Using positive and professional body language, making sure that even if someone was looking through a window from outside and couldn't hear what you were saying, just your body language would tell them that you were enjoying yourself, happy to be there, professional, you know what you're doing.

Using gestures for emphasis and we'll look in more detail about gestures, but using your hands to be able to emphasise things.

If you are saying, for example, the word big, then you might use your hands to show how big something is.

If you are saying that something is essential, then you might make a gesture to make that point that this is an essential thing.

Speaking at a suitable volume for the space, every space that you might deliver a speech could be different.

Delivering a speech in your living room is very different to delivering it in the school hall.

That's why I've said speaking at a suitable volume for the space, you need to be loud and proud.

You need to ensure that every single person in that audience can hear you easily.

Not by having to strain and listen and look at your lips to try and lip read, easily.

So make sure you're speaking at a suitable volume for the space and my advice to you would be go louder than you think you need to.

Children often think that they are shouting when actually they're just speaking at the right volume for a larger space.

So push that volume.

Using pauses and varying the pace at which a speaker speaks.

Again, we'll look in detail at this, but pauses can be an essential way to break up your speech, to give the audience a moment to think, to reflect.

Let's check your understanding then.

Which of these is an important thing for a speaker to do when delivering their speech? Is it A walking around when speaking? B, speaking at a suitable volume for the space.

C, rushing to not let the speech get too long.

Which of these is an important thing for a speaker to do when delivering their speech? Walking around when speaking, speaking at a suitable volume for the space, or rushing to not let the speech get too long.

Pause the video and decide for yourself now.

And welcome back.

Okay, so which of these an important thing to do for a speaker when they're delivering their speech? Now walking around when speaking, I don't think that's going to help.

That might be something that you've seen speakers do before, particularly if they have a microphone attached to them so they don't need to stand at a particular spot.

But it can be distracting for an audience, particularly if you are walking around a lot.

So it's not a speaking at a suitable volume for the space or rushing to not let the speech get too long.

Rushing is not something that I want you to do.

There are times when speeches need to be a certain amount of time, but rushing is not going to be the way to achieve your impact on the audience.

So you would need to make sure through your preparation that your speech at the right time so that you don't have to rush, which means the correct answer is B, speaking at a suitable volume for this space.

Let's think about eye contact.

Eye contact is when a person is looking directly into someone else's eyes when they are speaking to them.

It's a really important skill to be good at and children find it quite hard.

When teachers are speaking to children in school, perhaps the children when they're answering a question will look at the floor or look at the sky or look somewhere else.

It's not easy to make eye contact, but if we are putting effort into doing it and practising it, we'll get better and better.

Making eye contact with as many people as possible in the audience is a positive thing to do for several reasons.

It forms the connection between the speaker and the audience.

It helps to build a relationship.

It helps to build trust.

It conveys that the speaker is confident and sincere.

Sometimes people think if someone is lying, if someone is not telling the truth, they would find it hard to look someone else in the eye and do that.

They wouldn't make eye contact.

They might look away to try and conceal, that they're not telling the truth.

So if you are looking at someone in the eye, it tells them that this person is being sincere.

They probably are telling the truth and it conveys confidence.

Someone who is confident will make eye contact.

It helps the speaker to assess how the audience is receiving the speech and if any changes need to be made.

If you look out to the audience and you can see that everyone is smiling after perhaps you told a joke or a funny anecdote, you know that there's an opportunity for you to perhaps next time you might have a funny joke to say, to just emphasise that a little bit more.

If you look out and you think that everyone looks quite sad, you might know I'm achieving my impact here because the impact I wanted is for the audience to feel perhaps sad about something and I can see they're doing that, so I'm achieving it.

It would give you a sense of purpose as you are delivering your speech to know it's going well.

If you look out to the audience, you can see some people perhaps are looking like they're straining to hear you, you can then increase your volume.

It is a way for the speaker to express emotion and emphasis.

We can use our eyes to be able to emphasise how we are feeling.

If I want the audience to feel sad, then I can deliver my speech, make eye contact and my eyes will help me to reinforce the message that I am feeling sad about something and they should too.

It increases a feeling of inclusivity.

The more you make eye contact, the more the audience will feel that this speech is for them and everyone is included.

Let's have a little explanation and check here.

Trying to read ahead in your notes and then make eye contact when speaking is an important skill to learn.

So I'm going to model that for you now and then you can have a go.

Okay, here is the small speech that I'm going to make.

I'm looking at it and I'm going to read ahead so that I can try and make as much eye contact with you as possible.

I'll lean forward so you can really see when my eyes are looking at my speech and when they're making eye contact.

Good morning, ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls.

My name is Mr. Brown and I am delighted to be here with you today to deliver a speech entitled, "The Best Way to Spend a Saturday Afternoon." Okay, so did you notice how my eyes were flicking down to my speech and then back up to you the audience? That's exactly what you need to do.

You need to be able to just look down, read a bit ahead and then deliver that.

Then look down, read a bit ahead and then deliver that bit.

So why don't you have a go.

I would like you to use the introduction that you wrote earlier in the lesson to practise reading ahead in your head and then making eye contact when speaking.

Pause the video and have a go yourself now.

Welcome back.

I'm sure you did a fabulous job.

Well done.

This is a skill you'll need to practise, practise, practise it.

Let's have a look at using pauses.

Using pauses and varying the speed at which a speaker delivers their speech, are two effective ways to make a speech interesting to listen to.

Focusing on using pauses.

Why do you think adding pauses into a speech is a positive thing to do? Why do you think adding pauses into a speech is a positive thing to do? What do you think? Now there are several important benefits to adding pauses when delivering a speech.

One of them is emphasising important parts of a speech, making sure that you slow down your pace and add those pauses when there is a key message that you want the audience to listen to and to take away.

Straight away, you can tell my tone right now is different.

I am using pauses to emphasise that this part of the speech is very important.

Pauses can also help you with increasing clarity and giving the audience a chance to process what's been said so they aren't overloaded with information.

For example, if you give a particular fact that you know might even be a little bit surprising or shocking, pausing after you deliberate will allow the audience to just let that information sink in to reflect on what's been said.

Adding moments of reflection where an audience can stop and think about what's been said or asked of them.

Again, just like we've talked about, those moments are crucial.

It might come after you've asked them a question because that's a moment for them to be able to reflect on what their answer would be.

Building suspense at certain points in the speech, if you've got something you are going to deliver and you know that this is going to be surprising or shocking to an audience, you can pause before you say it and that will increase suspense.

Pausing before you deliver something will allow the audience to think, oh, they're not talking.

Something must be going on here, tuning in, and then they will listen to the next words that come out of your mouth.

Let's check your understanding on pauses.

Which of these is a benefit of using pauses when delivering a speech? Is it A giving the audience time to talk among themselves? B, emphasising important parts of the speech or C, increasing the length of the speech.

I'd like you to pause the video.

A, B, or C, decide for yourself now.

And welcome back.

Let's see, giving the audience time to talk among themselves is not something that we do during our speech.

We would not want the audience to be chatting among themselves while we are talking.

B, emphasising important parts of the speech or C, increasing the length of the speech.

If you know your speech is not long enough, putting in long pauses to try and extend the length of it will seem strange.

Which is what I'm doing now.

Putting pauses in to increase the length of the speech is not something we would do, which means the answer is B, emphasising important parts of the speech using pauses to emphasise important parts of the speech.

It's the correct answer.

And well done if you said it.

Time for a practise, I would like you to have a go at delivering a whole speech for yourself.

Focus on the areas covered in today's lesson, making eye contact with as many members of the audience as possible, whether your audience is two people or 200 people trying to make eye contact with as many of them as possible.

Using positive and professional body language, standing up straight, smiling warmly when you greet the audience, using gestures for emphasis, speaking at a suitable volume for the space, using pauses and varying the pace at which a speaker speaks.

You can choose any speech title you would like, or if you prefer, you can use this one, "The Best Way to Spend a Saturday Afternoon." So it's over to you.

It's time for you to deliver a speech to the best of your abilities.

Pause the video.

I wish you the best of luck and have a go now.

Okay.

I would now like to show you an example of me delivering a speech to be able to give you a glimpse into perhaps what you did.

And when you watch, you might even see some things and think, yes, I did that.

Now I'm not gonna do an entire speech.

I'm just gonna do a shorter version.

I've got an introduction, a point, and some explanation for you, but that will be long enough for you to see how I deliver this speech.

When you are watching, really try and pay attention to see if I am doing the things that we talked about in today's lesson.

Such as leaving pauses, using a suitable volume, varying my pace, using gestures.

Okay, here we go.

Good morning, ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls.

My name is Mr. Brown and I am delighted to be here today to deliver a speech entitled, "The Best Way to Spend a Saturday Afternoon." Have you ever found yourself unsure of what to do on a Saturday afternoon? This speech will solve that problem for you.

I believe the best thing to do on a Saturday afternoon is to go to the cinema because it's a great way to relax and be entertained.

Watching a movie can transport you to far away lands.

Watching a movie can make you feel a range of emotions.

Watching a movie can even help you to learn.

There are so many benefits, but being able to relax and be entertained has to be the best.

So I made an effort there to try and speak at suitable volume, to have some gestures to emphasise when I said things like a movie can help you to learn or a movie could make you feel a range of emotions.

I put my hands on my heart.

I added some pauses.

Even when I was delivering my speech title.

I said, deliver a speech entitled, and then I did a bit of a pause, build the suspense.

The Best Way to Spend a Saturday Afternoon.

There's even a pause in there as well.

I am sure you did lots of the things that I've just modelled.

Well done.

Let's summarise our learning today on delivering a speech.

A speaker should introduce themselves and their speech title when they first start speaking.

Using eye contact helps to make a speech successful and using pauses can be an effective way to make a speech interesting to listen to.

Well done today.

I am sure you will be able to deliver a speech very effectively and have an impact on the audience.

Great work, I will see you again soon.