Starter quiz
- True or false? When telling a story, my voice should sound the same throughout.
- True
- False ✓
- How should you stand when telling a story?
- straight and confidently ✓
- with slumped shoulders
- with your back to the audience
- in a position where the whole audience can see you ✓
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- When speaking, it is important to ...
- project my voice. ✓
- speak at a slow, clear pace. ✓
- whisper.
- speak really quickly.
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- True or false? I should stand completely still while telling a story.
- True
- False ✓
- Put the items in the order that Goldilocks tries them.
- 1⇔porridge
- 2⇔chair
- 3⇔bed
- Put the bears in the order in which Goldilocks tries each of the bears' items.
- 1⇔Papa Bear
- 2⇔Mama Bear
- 3⇔Baby Bear
Exit quiz
- What is charisma?
- a natural ability to attract, engage or influence people ✓
- changes in tone of voice
- the vocabulary chosen to tell a story
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- It is important to use a tone of voice which ...
- always makes the audience laugh.
- matches the atmosphere. ✓
- conveys the characters' emotions. ✓
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- Match each tone of voice to the sentence you might say that way.
- light tone before any problem⇔One morning, the Bears went for a stroll while their porridge cooled. ✓
- surprised tone to convey shock⇔Not long later, Goldilocks found their cottage and went inside! ✓
- tense tone, starting to build suspense⇔In the kitchen, she found three bowls of porridge and tried each one. ✓
- Match each emotion to the description of the facial expression used to convey it.
- happiness⇔corner of the mouth raised upwards ✓
- anger⇔lowered eyebrows and tightly pressed lips or bared teeth ✓
- fear⇔heightened eyebrows and wide eyes ✓
- surprise⇔wide eyes and dropped jaw ✓
- Match each facial expression to the appropriate sentence.
- facial expression of worry/fear⇔First, she tasted Papa Bear’s, but it was too hot. ✓
- facial expression of disappointment⇔Next, she tried Mama Bear’s, but it was too cold. ✓
- facial expression of relief/happiness⇔Finally, she tried Baby Bear's and it was just right so she ate it up! ✓
- What is body language?
- the words we use to tell a story
- how we use movements and gestures to communicate meaning or feelings ✓
- what we wear when telling a story
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Lesson Details
Key learning points
- Telling a story in a charismatic way helps to engage the audience and hold their interest in a narrative throughout.
- Using expression will help make your story interesting to listen to.
- Facial expressions can convey a character’s feelings in response to events in the story.
- Using body language and gestures to engage an audience will help to keep their attention.
- Using a varied tone and different voices for characters will engage the audience and make the story easier to follow.
Common misconception
Children may find it difficult or forget to switch from a character voice to a narrator voice when they have finished saying the speech and they are saying the reporting clause.
Print a copy of the speech section of the story that shows the speech and reporting clause in different colours to support children in their oral rehearsal for different character's voices.
Keywords
Charisma - a natural ability to attract, engage or influence people
Tone - the pitch of our voice and how this is used to convey a message appropriately
Facial expression - a form of non-verbal communication shown on the face to convey a range of emotions
Body language - how we use movements and gestures to communicate meaning and feelings
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