How Greta Thunberg provokes an emotional response from an audience
I understand how the delivery of a speech can provoke an emotional response from an audience.
How Greta Thunberg provokes an emotional response from an audience
I understand how the delivery of a speech can provoke an emotional response from an audience.
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Lesson details
Key learning points
- A speaker can provoke an emotional response from an audience.
- Provoking an emotional response may help a speaker to achieve their purpose.
- Greta Thunberg is a Swedish activist and environmentalist.
- Greta Thunberg made a speech at the United Nations Climate Change Conference when she was just 15 years old.
Keywords
Provoke - to stir up feelings or emotions
Activist - a person who campaigns to bring about political or social change
Environmentalist - a person who cares about protecting the environment
Emotive - able to arouse intense feeling
Common misconception
Pupils may think that provoking an emotional response in an audience is about making them sad.
Ensure that pupils know there is a wide range of emotional responses that audience members may have - and they may vary from person to person. These include anger, frustration, enthusiasm, determination, sadness, joy, hope and belief.
Equipment
You will need access to the video clip of Greta Thunberg's speech from the UN Climate Change Conference in 2019.
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Starter quiz
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