Starter quiz
- What is an audience?
- a group of people who watch or listen to something ✓
- a group of people who perform on stage
- a group of people playing
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- What should an audience do when they are watching a presentation?
- listen to the presentation ✓
- talk to their partner throughout the presentation
- read their book during the presentation
- look at the presenter ✓
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- What is the purpose of an essay?
- to tell the reader a story
- to record thoughts and feelings
- to inform the reader about a particular topic or issue ✓
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- Which of these words would be found in an essay about early Islamic civilisation?
- Baghdad ✓
- awesome
- caliphate ✓
- Islam ✓
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- What helps effective presenting?
- speaking loudly enough for everyone to hear ✓
- pronouncing words correctly ✓
- telling jokes
- eye contact ✓
- confident body language ✓
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- 'Polysyllabic' words are ...
- words with one syllable.
- words with more than one syllable. ✓
- words with more vowels than consonants.
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Exit quiz
- Which of these are appropriate explanations of 'presenting'?
- Presenting can be an important final stage of the writing process. ✓
- Presenting always involves learning a piece of writing off by heart.
- Presenting can be a way of sharing information with others. ✓
- Presenting involves speaking in front of others and listening to others. ✓
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- Match the presenting techniques to their definitions:
- projection⇔involves speaking powerfully and clearly ✓
- diction⇔involves pronouncing words clearly ✓
- eye contact⇔involves looking into the eyes of the people in our audience ✓
- body language⇔how we use our posture and gestures to convey meaning ✓
- Fill in the gap. 'When projecting our voices, we need to use deep breaths and use the __________ in our stomachs to help us speak.'
- muscles ✓
- butterflies
- feelings
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- Fill in the gap. '__________ involves pronouncing words clearly. It is very important because our audience needs to be able to understand what we are saying.'
- Projection
- Diction ✓
- Eye contact
- Body language
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- Which of these are aspects of confident body language when presenting?
- shoulders back ✓
- feet shoulder-width apart ✓
- pronouncing words clearly
- chin up when speaking ✓
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- Match the four pillars of Baghdad to their meanings:
- defence⇔difficult to penetrate ✓
- community⇔welcoming ✓
- religion⇔symbolic of heavens and Earth ✓
- government⇔central to city ✓
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Lesson Details
Key learning points
- Presenting involves speaking in front of others and listening to others.
- Presenting includes voice projection, speaking with clear diction, making eye contact and using strong body language.
- Voice projection is not the same as shouting.
- Practising pronouncing tricky words helps develop clear diction when presenting.
Common misconception
Pupils may speak very quickly, quietly and not look up from their page when presenting their learning.
Techniques for effective presenting are explicitly identified, explained and modelled throughout both learning cycles.
Keywords
Presenting - speaking in front of others and listening to others
Projection - speaking powerfully and clearly
Diction - pronouncing words clearly
Eye contact - looking into the eyes of the people in an audience
Body language - how we use our posture and gestures to communicate meaning, confidence and feelings
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