Term One Talking and Listening Wks 5-11

Overview: ! ! ! ! ! Introduce effective oral communication. Develop strategies to successfully participate in topic talks. Introduce how to be an attentive audience.

Outcome: TS1.1 ! ! Communicates with an increasing range of people for a variety of purposes on both familiar and introduced topics in ! ! spontaneous and structured classroom activities.

Teaching Area What makes a good speaker?

Teaching and Learning Activities Students brainstorm ideas on what they think makes a good speaker. Class develops a good speaker chart that can be referred to regularly

Notes/Evaluation

Attentive audience

Students brainstorm questions to ask each other about their daily oral presentation. Discuss appropriate questioning techniques and use of language. Role-play being an attentive audience.

Teaching Area Topic Talk

Teaching and Learning Activities Each student writes down a topic on a strip of paper. Teacher also has prepared topics to add. Topics are put into a Topic Talk box. Teacher models task of preparing talk Students each then select topic from the box to present and have 10 minutes to write down as much as they can on the topic. Students present their speeches to the class. Once all students have completed this task it can be repeated on a regular basis.

Notes/Evaluation

What makes a good listener?

Remind students of being an attentive audience. Audience uses whiteboards to record two points made by each speaker in the above speeches. The teacher can then choose a student to share their response.

Oral Presentation

The students are given a variety of topics to research and must prepare notes for a one minute oral presentation. They can use palm cards or memorise the speech for their presentation.