How Malala Yousafzai uses humour and anecdotes in a speech
I understand how the use of humour and anecdotes can help connect to an audience.
How Malala Yousafzai uses humour and anecdotes in a speech
I understand how the use of humour and anecdotes can help connect to an audience.
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Lesson details
Key learning points
- A speaker can use humour to build a relationship with an audience.
- Telling anecdotes in a speech can help an audience to feel connected to a speaker.
- Malala Yousafzai is an activist and actively campaigns for children's rights to education and women's rights worldwide.
- She is also a humanitarian, advocate and public speaker, who was the youngest winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in 2014.
Keywords
Anecdotes - short stories from a person's real life
Advocate - someone who speaks up for or supports a cause, idea or person
Activist - a person who campaigns to bring about political or social change
Humour - the quality of being funny or amusing
Common misconception
Pupils may not know about the differences in children's rights to education around the world.
Ensure that before beginning this lesson, you have developed pupils' understanding of how children's rights to education are different around the world. You could use PSHE sessions to explore this in more depth.
Equipment
You will need access to the video clip of Malala Yousafzai's acceptance speech, as the winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in 2014.
Licence
Lesson video
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Starter quiz
6 Questions
a group of people who watch and listen to a performance or speaker
to stir up feelings or emotions
to imagine yourself in someone else's shoes
to convince or to make someone agree with you