If possible show a video - for example, of school speech competitions. A useful technique is to show the video and then turn the television around and listen to the speech. Ask the students what they saw when they looked at the speech. Playing the clip from City Hall works well here. The class are asked to rate the teacher using this Speech Delivery Checklist .
Students then practise delivering their speeches to their partner and then to their group of four.
They use their Speech Delivery Checklist to assess their own performances and to offer constructive feedback to each other. Finally students deliver speeches to the whole class, and assess each other using the Speech Delivery Checklist . From the Speech Delivery Checklist they then look back to their assessment schedule . The teacher does too and there is a quick discussion of the assessment at the end of each speech. They can also use it as part of the peer assessment process.