It's speech writing time...

Next week we will start writing speeches for our Year 7 & 8 speech competition. This week we are looking at examples of good speeches and picking them apart to work out what features we should include in our own.

Today we watched a speech given by a Year 13 student, Joshua Losefa. The features we identified were:

• he had a real purpose
• used repetition
• gave lots of examples, told stories
• used pauses effectively
• knew his speech really well, lots of eye contact
• used hand gestures

At home, start brainstorming speech topic ideas.