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Delivering speeches about supporting Victorian working class children
I can deliver my speech confidently and clearly.
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Year 8
Delivering speeches about supporting Victorian working class children
I can deliver my speech confidently and clearly.
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Lesson details
Key learning points
- Varying pace and rhythm can help support with presenting the meaning of a text.
- Pauses can help vary pace and rhythm.
- Facial expressions can help support with expressing mood or attitude.
- Eye contact and hand gestures are useful for holding an audience's attention.
Keywords
Pace - pace describes the speed in which you move or talk.
Rhythm - rhythm describes the pattern or flow of words, phrases and sounds.
Pause - a temporary stop in action or speech is called a pause.
Vary - to vary means to differ from something else.
Expression - an expression is a look on someone’s face that conveys a particular emotion.
Common misconception
Clear and confident delivery of speeches requires a consistent pace of delivery throughout.
Model the delivery of a sentence which starts at pace, but slows down to draw attention to particular vocabulary choices.
If you do not have time for all pupils to deliver speeches individually, place students in groups and get them to perform to an audience of 4-5 other students.
Teacher tip
Content guidance
- Depiction or discussion of discriminatory behaviour
Supervision
Adult supervision recommended
Licence
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6 Questions
Q1.
Why could so few Victorian children go to school?
They did not have to so they chose not to go.
They did not have to.
Q2.
The children of which social class were most likely to be hungry?
Q3.
Which of the following is not a rhetorical device?
Rhetorical question
Direct address
Anaphora
Emotive language
Q4.
What does the word vary mean?
Vary means to be exactly the same as something else.
Vary means there is a lot of something.
Q5.
Why did a lack of education so frequently lead to poverty in Victorian Britain? Select the best answer.
Lack of education leads to crime.
Lack of education left people unable to work.
Q6.
Which of the following was not a social value in Victorian Britain?
Discipline
Responsibility
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6 Questions
Q1.
Which of the following is the definition of pause?
The speed in which you move or talk.
The pattern or flow of words, phrases and sounds.
A look on someone’s face that conveys a particular emotion.
Q2.
The following is the definition of which word: this word describes the speed in which you move or talk.
Q3.
Which of the following is the definition of expression?
The speed in which you move or talk.
The pattern or flow of words, phrases and sounds.
A temporary stop in action or speech.
Q4.
Which of the following is the definition of rhythm?
The speed in which you move or talk.
A temporary stop in action or speech.
A look on someone’s face that conveys a particular emotion.
Q5.
Why should you track the speaker? Select two responses.
You can hear them better.
Q6.
Why are facial expressions so important when delivering a speech?
They make the speech more interesting.
It helps people understand your speech.