Starter quiz
- Select the examples of public speaking.
- delivering an assembly ✓
- educational talks ✓
- phoning a friend
- chatting in the playground
- speeches ✓
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- How can a speaker be engaging when making a speech?
- standing to speak ✓
- looking at the ground
- speaking loudly and clearly ✓
- varying the pace ✓
- using repetition ✓
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- How can a speaker be engaging when making a speech?
- making eye contact ✓
- using facial expressions and gestures ✓
- speaking quietly
- asking rhetorical questions ✓
- reading from their notes
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- Match the keywords to the correct definition.
- audience⇔a group of people listening to or watching a performance or speaker ✓
- engage⇔to get or hold the interest of ✓
- repetition⇔a key word or phrase said more than once in order to reinforce a point ✓
- What was the name of Martin Luther King's famous speech?
- 'I Wish for a Future'
- 'I Have a Dream' ✓
- 'I Have a Feeling'
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- True or false? 'I Have a Dream' by Martin Luther King Jr. was written to help bring about racial equality.
- True ✓
- False
Exit quiz
- Which of these techniques allows the audience to hear and understand the speaker?
- using facial expressions and gestures
- speaking loudly and clearly ✓
- asking rhetorical questions
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- What is a rhetorical question?
- a question asked that does not expect an answer ✓
- a question asked that the audience answers
- a question that includes the answer
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- Match the rhetorical question to the appropriate speech topic.
- equal rights⇔Will you stand up for what is fair and right? ✓
- showing kindness⇔What kind of friend will you be? ✓
- protecting the environment⇔How do you want to leave the planet? ✓
- As an advocate for education, Michelle Obama has made many speeches aimed at...
- inspiring and motivating young people. ✓
- making the elderly laugh.
- teaching medical professionals.
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- What was the main rhetorical question Michelle Obama repeated in her speech?
- What are you going to do?
- Who are you going to be? ✓
- Why are you here?
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- How does the use of rhetorical questions help a speaker achieve their purpose?
- It addresses the audience directly. ✓
- It engages the audience. ✓
- It speeds up the speech.
- It makes it easier for the audience to hear.
- It encourages the audience to think and consider what their answer would be. ✓
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Key learning points
- Michelle Obama is an American lawyer and author who served as the First Lady of the United States from 2009 to 2017.
- Successful public speaking includes speaking loudly and clearly and engaging the audience.
- A speech is written for a specific audience in order to achieve its purpose.
- A speaker can engage an audience through a variety of techniques, including rhetorical questions.
Common misconception
Children may think that their speech should be purely made up of rhetorical questions.
Highlight and explain how rhetorical questions can be interspersed with statements and information that reinforce the point and help to achieve the purpose too.
Keywords
Audience - a group of people listening or watching a performance or speaker
Addressing - speaking to a person or group of people
Rhetorical question - a question asked that does not expect an answer, but rather makes a point or creates emphasis
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