Week 3 Oral – Structure, Style, Tone, Vocabulary - 1
Week 3 Oral – Structure, Style, Tone, Vocabulary
What I Need To Know From This Lesson
 How to take into count audience and purpose in spoken English
 How to recognise and use structure in spoken English
 How to recognise and use style in spoken English
 How to recognise and use tone in spoken English
 How to recognise and use vocabulary in spoken English
 How to start and maintain a conversation, using conventions to take turns,
interrupt and rebut
Teaching Notes
1. Review what the students need to know from this lesson.
2. Remind them what they learned in the reading lesson last week – refer to
their Exit Tickets.
3. Preparing a Speech in in the Student Booklet.
4. Work through Our Two Speeches to show how structure, style, tone and
vocabulary changes depending on audience and purpose.
5. Work through Exercises One to Four to highlight the role of structure,
style, tone and vocabulary.
6. Copy pages 3 through 6, back to back, enough for each student.
7. Exercise Five. Students to prepare and give these speeches.
8. Exercise Six. Practice conversations to practise the five conversation
skills. The list of skills is in the Student Booklet. Maybe I’ll video the
conversation so that we can talk about the various contributions.
9. Make some copies of page 8 on coloured paper for the answers.
10. End with Exit Ticket.
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Preparing A Speech
The two key questions are:
 What is the purpose of your speech?
 Who is your audience?
Consider these two situations:
1. You ask your seven year old brother to take a message to your mother.
2. You give a speech to the school assembly about the school trip to
Nepal.
The audience for each is different (your brother; school students and
teachers). The purpose is different (to give instructions; to inform).
There are four important ways you can vary your speech to suit the audience
and purpose. They are:
1. You can alter the structure.
2. You can alter the style.
3. You can alter the tone.
4. You can alter the sorts of words you use (vocabulary).
Our Two Speeches:
Message to Mother
Assembly Speech
Structure give a list
tell a story or use photos to
talk about each stage of the
trip
Style
straightforward
Informal
Tone
serious
Humorous
Words
simple vocabulary
some foreign words to give the
flavour of Nepal
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Exercise One – Structuring a Speech
Suggest an audience and a purpose for a speech featuring each of the following
structures.
 Tell a story
Audience: ………………………………………………………………………………………………
Purpose: …………………………………………………………………………………………………
 Use a list
Audience: ………………………………………………………………………………………………
Purpose: …………………………………………………………………………………………………
 Start with general comments, move to specific comments.
Audience: ………………………………………………………………………………………………
Purpose: …………………………………………………………………………………………………
 Start with specific comments, move to general comments.
Audience: ………………………………………………………………………………………………
Purpose: …………………………………………………………………………………………………
 Start with an anecdote or humour.
Audience: ………………………………………………………………………………………………
Purpose: …………………………………………………………………………………………………
 Start with a question then proceed to answer it.
Audience: ………………………………………………………………………………………………
Purpose: …………………………………………………………………………………………………
 Start with a point of view and then show why it is wrong.
Audience: ………………………………………………………………………………………………
Purpose: …………………………………………………………………………………………………
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Exercise Two – Style in a Speech
There are many styles of writing, but in speaking there are three main styles:

Formal

Informal

Poetic
Which would be the most appropriate style to use for the following speeches?
1. Audience: your parents. Purpose: to tell them about the birth of your
son. ……………………………………………
2. Audience: a policeman. Purpose: to convince him not to give you a parking
ticket. ……………………………………………
3. Audience: your best friend. Purpose: to entertain him with a joke.
……………………………………………
4. Audience: your neighbour. Purpose: to tell them that you witnessed their
cat being run over by a car. ……………………………………………
5. Audience: someone waiting in a queue to enter a football game. Purpose:
to talk about the game. ……………………………………………
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Exercise Three – Tone in a Speech
Name the audience and purpose of a speech in which the tone was:
(The first has been done for you.)
1. defiant
Audience: a boy unjustly accused of hitting his sister.
Purpose: to show his sense of injustice.
2. ironic
Audience: …………………………………………………………………………........
Purpose: ………………………………
3. scary
Audience: …………………………………………………………………………........
Purpose: ………………………………
4. supportive
Audience: …………………………………………………………………………........
Purpose: ………………………………
5. angry
Audience: …………………………………………………………………………........
Purpose: ………………………………
6. hopeful
Audience: …………………………………………………………………………........
Purpose: ………………………………
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Exercise Four – Vocabulary
Take the list of words below and place them in the chart according to whether
they are formal, informal or poetic in their nature.
Dance
His yapping assistant
Top of the morning to
Dog
Home
you!
Digs
Home and hearth
Trip
Fly the coup
Man’s best friend
Trip the light
Good morning
Partying
fandango
Hi
Vacation
Formal
Canine
Informal
Poetic
partying
hi
Home
fly the coup
Exercise Five – One Minute Speeches
You are to give three one-minute speeches on the following topics. I will assess
you on structure, style, tone and vocabulary.
Name:
Date:
Title of Speech:
Structure:
Style:
Tone:
Vocabulary:
Submit this form with each speech.
1. Purpose: to instruct gardeners about the new flower bed you want planted.
Audience: gardeners
2. Purpose: to exchange a faulty mobile phone. Audience: shop assistant
3. Purpose: to entertain your two young cousins. Audience: two young cousins.
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Exercise Six - Conversations Skills
Someone with good conversation skills knows how to:
Start a conversation
Maintain a conversation
Take turns
Rebut
Interrupt
Take part in a group conversation on one of these topics:
1. Shopping in malls.
2. Travelling with family.
3. What I like and don’t like on television.
4. My ambitions after leaving school.
5. People who have influenced me.
I will listen to the conversation and watch for good conversational skills, using
this grid.
Student Student Student Student
Name
Start a conversation
Maintain a conversation
Take turns
Rebut
Interrupt
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Exercise Two – Style in a Speech - Answers
1. Poetic
2. Formal
3. Informal
4. Formal
5. informal
Exercise Four – Vocabulary - Answers
Formal
Informal
Poetic
Dog
man's best friend
his yapping assistant
Dance
partying
trip the light fandango
good morning
hi
top of the morning to you!
Home
digs
home and hearth
Vacation
trip
fly the coup