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How Martin Luther King engages an audience
I can understand how repetition can be used to engage an audience when delivering a speech.
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How Martin Luther King engages an audience
I can understand how repetition can be used to engage an audience when delivering a speech.
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Lesson details
Key learning points
- A speaker can engage an audience through a variety of techniques, including repetition.
- Martin Luther King Jr.'s famous speech entitled 'I Have A Dream' uses repetition to engage the audience.
- ‘I Have a Dream’ by Martin Luther King Jr. was written to help bring about racial equality.
Keywords
Audience - a group of people listening or watching a performance or speaker
Engage - to get or hold the interest of
Repetition - when a key word or phrase is said more than once in order to reinforce a point
Common misconception
Pupils may think that repetition involves repeating just one word.
Teach pupils that repetition is often most impactful when repeating a phrase at the start of a sentence.
Use a clip of Martin Luther King's 'I have a dream' speech in LC2. You will likely only want to use the first two thirds of it, or a clip that's enough for you to show several examples of repetition. There may be some vocabulary you want to discuss from the speech with your pupils too.
Teacher tip
Equipment
You will need access to a clip of Martin Luther King's 'I have a dream' speech.
Content guidance
- Depiction or discussion of discriminatory behaviour
Supervision
Adult supervision recommended
Licence
This content is © Oak National Academy Limited (2024), licensed on
Open Government Licence version 3.0
except where otherwise stated. See Oak's terms & conditions (Collection 2).Lesson video
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Starter quiz
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6 Questions
Q1.
True or false? A speech is the communication of someone’s thoughts, through words, to an audience.
Q2.
Which of these jobs might involve making speeches?
firefighter
fisherman
Q3.
Which of these occasions may involve someone making a speech?
waiting for a bus
handing in your homework
Q4.
What are common features of persuasion in speeches?
jokes
rhyming
Q5.
What is an opinion?
a question to the audience
a fact that can't be disputed
Q6.
True or false? A speaker does not need to justify their opinion with reasons.
Exit quiz
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6 Questions
Q1.
True or false? An effective speech will engage the audience.
Q2.
Which of these techniques involves changing the speed at which a speaker delivers parts of their speech?
using facial expressions and gestures
asking rhetorical questions
Q3.
How does repetition impact the audience in a positive way for the person making a speech?
It makes the audience laugh.
It creates confusion.
Q4.
What is Dr Martin Luther King Jr. most famous for?
being born in 1929
being from a city called Atlanta in Georgia
Q5.
In which city did Martin Luther King Jr. make a speech in front of two hundred thousand people?
London
New York
Q6.
Which famous line did Martin Luther King repeat in his speech?
'Welcome everyone'
'We must make a change'