Starter quiz
- What is the acronym for the structure to follow when making a speech in a debate?
- POPS
- PIPS
- PEPS ✓
- PUPS
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- What is the purpose of the 'point' in the PEPS structure?
- To tell the audience your name.
- To tell the audience one reason for your opinion. ✓
- To summarise your argument for the audience.
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- Why is there an 'explanation' part in the PEPS structure?
- To give the audience facts and figures that support an opinion.
- To give the audience a summary of the whole argument.
- To give the audience more detail about why the speaker has a certain opinion. ✓
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- Which three of these techniques may help a speaker to persuade the audience to agree with their opinion?
- flattery ✓
- speaking in an overly confident manner
- provoking an emotional reaction ✓
- repetition ✓
- insulting the audience
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- Which of these could be used as an example of flattery in an argument?
- An audience like you may find this hard to understand...
- An audience like you might not agree with me...
- An audience like you will certainly understand my argument... ✓
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- What is a rhetorical question?
- A question that the audience already knows the answer to.
- A question that had been used before.
- A question that does not require an answer. ✓
- A question that the speaker answers themselves.
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Exit quiz
- Complete this sentence. Once a speaker has delivered their point and explanation, they should then move on to their ...
- proof ✓
- summary
- next point
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- What could be another word for proof?
- evidence ✓
- rumour
- suspicion
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- Finish this sentence. Proof can be defined as ...
- telling people how to think.
- something that can be argued with.
- something that is real, factual and cannot be disputed. ✓
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- Telling a short story from their own life experience would work well in a speaker's proof. What is another name for these types of stories?
- rumours
- anecdotes ✓
- fairy tales
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- Which two of these ideas could be used as proof in a speaker's argument?
- surveying groups of people ✓
- using other people's research ✓
- made-up stories
- made-up statistics
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- What is the purpose of the 'summary' part in the PEPS structure?
- To make a new point.
- To briefly convey the main points of the argument. ✓
- To repeat the entire argument.
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Lesson Details
Key learning points
- The PEPS structure stands for: point, explanation, proof, summary.
- Adding proof to an argument will make it more convincing.
- Summarising an argument will help the audience to remember the key parts.
Common misconception
There is no need to summarise a short speech because the audience have just heard it.
Summarising an argument helps to reinforce the key parts and make the speech more convincing.
Keywords
Proof - Proof refers to the evidence used to support an opinion.
Summary - A summary will briefly recap the main points of an argument.
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