University Academy of Engineering South Bank
Learning Area: Year 8 English
Module 1: I’m an Engineer – Get Me in Here! Talking about Talk: Speeches and Spoken Language
Week Number
Week 1
Week 2
Week 3
Reading assessment: analysing a famous speech
Context
Skills
Preparing the Academy for opening and
Professional Development for Staff
 Introduction to English: classroom,
exercise book and assessment
expectations
 Introduction to the Module One Big
Picture and assessment schedule
 Creating a personal autobiography
 Exploring how to construct persuasive
arguments for speech writing
 Exploring how rhetorical devices and
structural elements are used for effect in
famous speeches
 Analysing and writing about a famous
speech in history
 Researching and writing a speech on the
significance of Engineering/STEM in global
history, a personal experience of what you
have learned from this specialism in year 7
at UAESB, and how it will help you in the
future
Preparing the Academy for opening and
Professional Development for Staff
 Skimming and scanning to select
information
 Retrieving and collating information
 Developing use of inference
 Rhetorical devices used for argument and
persuasion
 Identification, evaluation and analysis of
language and structural devices used in
speeches
 Identification of purpose and audience
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Skimming and scanning to select
information
Retrieving and collating information when
researching for information
Putting information into our own words
Developing our inferences by considering
more than one interpretation
Using PEE to respond to a text
Honing sentence structure, spelling,
vocabulary choice, punctuation,
paragraphing and whole text structure
Using rhetorical language devices and
structural elements to create a speech
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Week 4
Speaking and Listening and Writing assessment
-Speech on Engineering/STEM
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Week 5
Writing assessment task: exploring the factors
that might affect the way spoken language is used
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Week 6
Writing and Speaking and Listening assessment
task: writing and performing spoken language
transcripts from different perspectives
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Indentifying and analysing presentational
skills when delivering a speech through
modelling
Speaking and Listening Assessment of
written speech to an audience.
Talking about Talk: identifying and
exploring how each one of us has a
particular way of speaking, and how this
evolves from a number of factors
Exploring spoken language and how others
respond to our particular way of speaking
and how this changes depending on
context
Exploring the differences between scripted
and spontaneous transcripts of spoken
language, both analysing them and writing
their own based on role-play
Exploring the differences between
permanent (written) language and
ephemeral (spoken) language
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Week 7
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Exploring how gender affects language
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Using verbal and non-verbal techniques to
deliver a powerful speech
Transferring a speech to palm cards
Writing a self evaluation
Identifying and applying spoken language
terminology
Structuring my inferences into more
analytical sentences and paragraphs
Developing PEE to respond to spoken
language
Developing sentence structure, spelling,
vocabulary choice, punctuation,
paragraphing and whole text structure
Roleplay
Expanding usage of spoken language
terminology
Structuring my inferences into more
analytical sentences and paragraphs
Developing PEE to respond to spoken
language
Developing sentence structure, spelling,
vocabulary choice, punctuation,
paragraphing and whole text structure
Exploring and applying the conventions of
writing a spoken language transcript
Exploring the impact of purpose and target
audience in roleplay.
Connecting our inferences to purpose and
target audience.
Expanding usage of spoken language
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usage and how the media presents
stereotyping via language used by women
and men
Exploring how texting has evolved as a
hybrid language incorporating elements of
both written and spoken language
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Week 8
Reading, writing and speaking and listening
assessment: presentation of a short speech
based on response to differing attitudes to texting
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Exploring public attitudes to texting and
how they may differ depending on a
person’s position in society
Reflecting and reviewing learning in this
module and target setting
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vocabulary to include ‘text speak’ terms
Developing PEE to respond more critically
to spoken language
Developing sentence structure, spelling,
vocabulary choice, punctuation,
paragraphing and whole text structure
Developing our own critical inferences
based on how spoken language is used for
effect on the listener
Consolidation of previous skills of reading,
writing and speaking and listening
developed in the module
Reviewing and being reflective of my
learning this module.