Tuesday 15th November 2022 Prerna Thakkar

Year 10 Partnership Event (Public Speaking Afternoon)

Timetable
12:30: student networking lunch and tour (can join in with this)
13:40 – 13:50: all in lecture theatre for briefing
13:50 – 14:00: just a minute warmup in the rooms (021 with Group 3)
14:00 – 14:20: preparation of speeches
14:20 – 14:40: listen to 2 groups
14:40 – 14:55: BREAK (feedback to Miss Timm)
14:55 – 15:25: listen to other 2 groups
15:30: final round (best team from each room) in the lecture theatre
Briefing speech

 Hello everyone, I’m Prerna

 I am going to take a minute now to talk a little bit about reaching your audience, through
structuring your speech and linking your ideas, so that they come across clearly
 linking ideas is actually pretty important because it ensures the cohesiveness of your speech,
essential in maintaining the focus of your audience
 you can connect your thoughts using phrases like “following on from”, “in light of the fact
that”, “in my view” if you want to add a personal opinion – it is also possible to produce an
equally effective speech using simpler terms like “first”, “next”, “thirdly” and “finally”
 within your speeches, it might be useful to include anecdotes and personal stories that further
your case – for example if your topic is “should we always forgive and forget”, you might
like to talk a little bit about having to forgive someone in your own life – through this, you
can elaborate upon the difficulties in doing this and how you overcame them
 this idea of being personal, is more unique to public speaking – statistics are certainly
important, but you will connect to an audience with much more ease, if you are able to find
commonalities between you
 this is certainly something you should consider when compiling your points and ultimately
composing your speeches today.
Just a minute topics
- Being 10 years old again
- A second chance
- Yesterday
- “Bright Lights, Big City” (which city name comes to mind when you hear this and why)
- Albert Einstein
- English tourists
- Crocodiles
- Bad advice
- Buying a new car
- Ghosts and the supernatural
 Topics
- The cult of celebrity is detrimental to today’s society
- Mankind needs religion
- In today’s world actions are stronger than words
- The whole world should speak the same language
Speech structure and tips
- 12 students in each room, with 4x groups of 3 people (Chair, Speaker 1, and Speaker 2)
- The 9-minute rotation should be 1 minute for the Chair, 3 minutes for Speaker 1, 3 minutes
for questions from the floor and 2 minutes for Speaker 2
- Students are allowed to use phones to research, remind them that this is about how you
present your points, only use stats where they will help you advance your point, not just
thrown in

Student groupings (Bentley Wood, Park High and NLCS)

Team 1 – Emily S, Jennifer B M and Hayaa A-H
Team 2 – Diema M, Beau E-W and Parmis A
Team 3 – Rhawan E-D, Destini J and Kishana K
Team 4 – Naomi A, April S H and Alyssa H

TEAM 1 COMMENTS
PRESENTATION

CONTENT

STRUCTURE
TEAM 2 COMMENTS
PRESENTATION

CONTENT

STRUCTURE

Feedback to Miss Timm during the break to round-off the session

PERIOD 9 LECTURE THEATRE