@The Arts Unit Creative Classes
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Captivate your audience with impressive impromptu speeches
Captivate your audience with impressive impromptu speeches
Student public speaking resource developed by The Arts Unit
Student public speaking resource developed by The Arts Unit
Years 3 to 6 public speaking
Years 3 to 6 public speaking
What will your students learn?
What will your students learn?
Your students will:
identify and reflect on the elements of an impromptu speech
respond quickly to a stimulus
organise their ideas
practise their own impromptu speeches.
Syllabus outcomes
Syllabus outcomes
English K-10 Syllabus
English K-10 Syllabus
Stage 2
EN2-1A: communicates in a range of informal and formal contexts by adopting a range of roles in group, classroom, school and community contexts.
EN2-6B: identifies the effect of purpose and audience on spoken texts, distinguishes between different forms of English and identifies organisational patterns and features.
EN2-10C: thinks imaginatively, creatively and interpretively about information, ideas and texts when responding to and composing texts.
EN2-11D: responds to and composes a range of texts that express viewpoints of the world similar to and different from their own.
Stage 3
EN3-1A: communicates effectively for a variety of audiences and purposes using increasingly challenging topics, ideas, issues and language forms and features.
EN3-2A: composes, edits and presents well-structured and coherent texts.
EN3-7C: thinks imaginatively, creatively, interpretively and critically about information and ideas and identifies connections between texts when responding to and composing texts.
EN3-8D: identifies and considers how different viewpoints of their world, including aspects of culture, are represented in texts.
Suggestions for how to use this resource with your students
Suggestions for how to use this resource with your students
This Creative Class is designed as a general introduction to impromptu speaking for all students and can also assist students who wish to enter competitions to improve their impromptu speaking.
There are a number of valuable lateral thinking, reading comprehension and literacy applications in this lesson.
The class introduces students to the skills of:
defining and interpreting a topic
applying general knowledge to new contexts
independently structuring and delivering a cohesive short text.
Through the study of a range of impromptu stimulus words and phrases, students may also:
extend their vocabulary
think critically about the multiple meanings of words
become familiar with a range of figures of speech and catch-phrases that will improve their overall reading comprehension
share their experiences and views in a confident manner.
You can extend this lesson for your students through the provision of regular stimulus words and phrases that they can interpret and use to apply their knowledge. Offering opportunities for students to practise their impromptu speaking in front of an audience will also build on the skills and content presented here.
Try the Cliché List or The Game Gal word generator sites for extra stimulus material.
You may also like to include sample spelling and vocabulary lists from NAPLAN marking guidelines to help familiarise and challenge your students with new words (see pages 98-103).
Collection of student work
Collection of student work
Google Form: create a Google form with activities and/or questions. Students can also upload any files they create. Email this form to your students with the Creative Class link and all your student responses will be combined in a Google sheet.
Google Classroom Assignment: create an assignment or a quiz in your Google Classroom with activities and/or questions. Students can also upload any files they create.
MS Teams: create a quiz or assignment in your class team drive where students can submit responses and upload any files they create.
Email: ask your students to email you any responses and files they create.
Flipgrid: a website that allows teachers to create 'grids' to facilitate video discussions. Each grid is a message board where teachers can pose questions called 'topics'. Students can post video responses that appear in a tiled grid display.
Jamboard: an interactive whiteboard which can be used for class feedback.
For further support on how to create these resources
For further support on how to create these resources
Offline access
Offline access
Download and print this document to send to students with limited access to online resources.
Impressive impromptus - @The Arts Unit Creative Classes.docxWould you like to promote your school and showcase your students' work as a result of engaging in this Creative Class?
Help us celebrate the fantastic work of NSW public school students by emailing photos or videos that you have permission to share and comments on how your students enjoyed the class to digital.artsunit@det.nsw.edu.au.
Please include the Creative Class title and your school name in the email so we can share on The Arts Unit social media and our website.
Teacher feedback
Teacher feedback
Third-party content attributions
Third-party content attributions
English K-10 Syllabus, © NSW Education Standards Authority (NESA) for and on behalf of the Crown in right of the State of New South Wales, 2012, copied under s113P, accessed 10 May 2020.
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