How Emma Watson connects with an audience
I understand how the use of personal experiences and anecdotes can help connect to an audience.
How Emma Watson connects with an audience
I understand how the use of personal experiences and anecdotes can help connect to an audience.
These resources will be removed by end of Summer Term 2025.
Lesson details
Key learning points
- A speaker can connect with an audience in a variety of different ways.
- A speaker can use personal experiences and anecdotes to connect with an audience.
- Emma Watson is an actress and she is best-known for playing Hermione in the Harry Potter films.
- Emma Watson is an activist, humanitarian and speaker, who gave a famous speech as UN Women Goodwill Ambassador in 2014.
Keywords
Audience - a group of people listening to or watching a performance or speaker
Activist - a person who campaigns to bring about political or social change
Humanitarian - someone who cares about the well-being of other people and works to help those in need
Anecdotes - short stories from a person's real life
Common misconception
Pupils may not know what 'feminism' or 'feminist' means.
Ensure that before beginning this lesson, you have developed pupils' understanding of what feminism is. You could use PSHE sessions to explore this in more depth.
Equipment
You will need access to a video clip of Emma Watson's speech as UN Women Goodwill Ambassador in 2014 at the UN headquarters in New York.
Licence
Lesson video
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Starter quiz
6 Questions
to convince or to make someone agree with you
the communication of someone’s thoughts, through words, to an audience
to stir up feelings or emotions
Exit quiz
6 Questions
to imagine yourself in someone else's shoes
a short story from a person's real life
to stir up feelings or emotions