Reading aloud

Lesson Title Description

Ever wondered what 'speaking well' really means? In this lesson, you’ll be learning
Introduction about the four things we should keep in mind when reading aloud and speaking to
others.
Are you speaking too softly? Too quickly?
Volume and Pace
Learn how to use the correct volume and pace to improve your speaking in different
situations!
Already know what volume and pace are? Do you know how to use them when
speaking, though? Check out this lesson to find out!
Improve your
Volume and Pace
Note: You may wish to complete ‘Voice Qualities: Volume and Pace’ before starting on
this.

Has anyone ever said that you are too ‘monotonous’ when you speak? Need to be more
Tone expressive when talking? Learn how to vary your tone to improve your speaking in
different situations!

You might already know what tone is, but do you know how to use it when speaking?
Improve Your Check out this lesson to find out!
Tone
Note: You may wish to complete ‘Voice Qualities: Tone’ before starting on this.

Word Stress Learn how to use the correct word stress to improve your speaking and oral skills!

You will be given the opportunity to practise your word stress skills that you have
Improve Your learned.
Word Stress
Note: It is advisable to complete ‘Voice Qualities: Word Stress’ first.

Sentence Stress Learn how to use the correct sentence stress to improve your speaking and oral skills!

You will be given the opportunity to practise your sentence stress skills that you have
learned.
Improve Your
Sentence Stress
Note: It is advisable to complete ‘Voice Qualities: Sentence Stress’ before you tackle
'Voice Qualities: Sentence Stress Practice'.

Possible topics

Question types

1. Video related
2. Personal reflection
3. Personal opinion
 Oral Brainstorming

What to brainstorm? How to brainstorm?

1. Personal experiences • Develop your ideas for benefits,
• 2-3 experiences related to the topic disadvantages, or solutions
(describe details) • Consider it from different perspectives:
• Identify how you felt, reflections, & impacts it
had on you. entire humanity

2. Benefits / positive aspects country/culture

• Positive outcomes/consequences?
local community
3. Disadvantages / negative aspects
• Negative outcomes/consequences? family

4. Suggestions for improvement

• How might negative outcomes be addressed?
• What needs to be done to resolve the
problems? self

5. Values
• What values are associated with / can be
applied to this topic?

Feelings vocabulary

FEAR ANNOYED DISGUST ANGRY CONFIDENT

insecure frustrated sickened enraged empowered
nervous disgruntled horrified furious safe
worried impatient repulsed incensed
foreboding irritated irked indignant
frightened displeased livid
panicked exasperated resentful
terrorised
CONFUSED PAIN HAPPY ENGAGED EXHILARATED
bewildered agony joyful absorbed ecstatic
dazed devastated delighted curious elated
hesitant grief blissful engrossed thrilled
lost heartbroken jubilant enchanted
puzzled miserable pleased intrigued
torn regretful

SAD GRATEFUL HOPEFUL EXCITED AFFECTIONATE

depressed appreciative encouraged surprised compassionate
dejected thankful optimistic astonished loving
despair touched eager warm
melancholic enthusiastic sympathetic
disappointed PEACEFUL invigorated
disheartened calm
gloomy content
heavy-hearted serene
hopeless
 Trigger phrases
• This video seems to be about [describe content of video]

• From their facial expression, I can tell that they are probably [insert feeling]

• I have not done this before, but if the opportunity presents itself, I wouldn’t mind trying it because…

• I have not done this before, but I have seen people taking part in this activity.

• From what I can observe, they look like they are [enjoying themselves/having a difficult time], probably
because…

• I have never done this before, but I do know some friends who do this quite frequently. Based on what I’ve
[heard/seen]…

• I would definitely love to try something like this because…

• I probably wouldn’t want to do something like this because…

• This activity taught me that…[insert personal reflection]

• Taking part in this activity made me realise that… [insert personal reflection]

• If I were to see something like this, I would feel [insert feeling word] because…

• I remember seeing something like this when I was a lot younger… [go on to describe what happened]

• Perhaps, one thing people may want to do in future is to…

• Perhaps, one thing people may want to consider before doing something like this is to…

• If I were to do it again, I would [describe what you would do]

• Personally, I feel that…

• From what I have experienced in school, I feel that…

• Looking back/in hindsight, I would probably have done the same thing because…

• Looking back/in hindsight, I would probably have done things differently because…

• This is because…

• I agree with this statement to a large extent because…

• I would like to disagree with this statement because…

• I feel that this is important because…

• One advantage of [insert activity] is that it…

• However, one disadvantage is that…

• On the flipside,

• This actually reminded me about an article/Instagram post I came across recently.