Week of June 2nd
Wednesday, June 4th
Today's Goal: To build your impromptu speaking skills to serve the speaking needs you have in real life, whether as professionals (business meeting, conference, lecture, call) or as adults looking to simply enhance your personal lives (cocktail party conversation)
Agenda:
1. Warm up your speaking by sharing opinions about movies and horror movies with your classmates; view a brief "horror movie" clip
2. Share your ideas on the homework and use those ideas to deliver a 2 minute impromptu speech for your team
3. Compile a list of both (1) effective aspects of your team's speeches and (2) areas for improvement
Today's Goal: To build your impromptu speaking skills to serve the speaking needs you have in real life, whether as professionals (business meeting, conference, lecture, call) or as adults looking to simply enhance your personal lives (cocktail party conversation)
Agenda:
1. Warm up your speaking by sharing opinions about movies and horror movies with your classmates; view a brief "horror movie" clip
2. Share your ideas on the homework and use those ideas to deliver a 2 minute impromptu speech for your team
3. Compile a list of both (1) effective aspects of your team's speeches and (2) areas for improvement
HOOKED ON HORROR - Unit 6
To discuss: Do you like scary movies? What are some of your favorites? What are horror movies usually about, and how to they achieve their frightening effects?
QUICK FACT: What do you think the very first horror movie ever made was about?
The brothers Auguste and Louis Lumière created the first publicly shown movies, the first documentaries and, with this one-shot, 50-sec. movie filmed at a Provence railway station, the first horror picture. It is said that as the Paris spectators watched the train chug toward the screen, they believed it was about to crash out of the frame and into the auditorium, and ran out screaming. True or not, the story indicates the power the medium would wield over its audience. The film can be seen on YouTube.
To discuss: Do you like scary movies? What are some of your favorites? What are horror movies usually about, and how to they achieve their frightening effects?
QUICK FACT: What do you think the very first horror movie ever made was about?
The brothers Auguste and Louis Lumière created the first publicly shown movies, the first documentaries and, with this one-shot, 50-sec. movie filmed at a Provence railway station, the first horror picture. It is said that as the Paris spectators watched the train chug toward the screen, they believed it was about to crash out of the frame and into the auditorium, and ran out screaming. True or not, the story indicates the power the medium would wield over its audience. The film can be seen on YouTube.
Sometimes truth is scarier than fiction! Watch this short clip about the Baker Hotel in Texas. Please jot down some quick notes about what happened there while you listen.
IMPROMPTU SPEAKING EXERCISE
1. Discuss your homework answers with your partner (10min)
2. As a class, view the YouTube video below. What do you like and dislike about this speech? Is it effective? Discuss with your partner. Use the questions from the homework to guide your discussion. (10min)
3. Write the speech topic you chose (from the homework) on an index card.
4. When you receive an index card with a new topic, keep it FACE DOWN. We will all start together.
5. You have 5 minutes to write some brief notes about your topic. (5 min)
6. I will count you off. Ones will go first!
7. On your mark, get set, GO! You each have 2 minutes to speak about your topic for your team. Don't worry - it's the same kind of speaking we did earlier, about movies.
8. With your group, write at least TWO good things about each person's speech (what worked). Write ONE thing about your own speech that you would like to change, or that you had trouble with. (15 min)
9. Walk around and read everyone's posters. (10 min)
1. Discuss your homework answers with your partner (10min)
2. As a class, view the YouTube video below. What do you like and dislike about this speech? Is it effective? Discuss with your partner. Use the questions from the homework to guide your discussion. (10min)
3. Write the speech topic you chose (from the homework) on an index card.
4. When you receive an index card with a new topic, keep it FACE DOWN. We will all start together.
5. You have 5 minutes to write some brief notes about your topic. (5 min)
6. I will count you off. Ones will go first!
7. On your mark, get set, GO! You each have 2 minutes to speak about your topic for your team. Don't worry - it's the same kind of speaking we did earlier, about movies.
8. With your group, write at least TWO good things about each person's speech (what worked). Write ONE thing about your own speech that you would like to change, or that you had trouble with. (15 min)
9. Walk around and read everyone's posters. (10 min)
Speaking Strategy Posters