Speak up for CAFOD
Public speaking workshop
Part 2 – Public speaking training
This workshop is part of the Speak up for CAFOD workshop package. Participants would
have ideally already completed the first section, Speak_Up_Intro_CAFOD.ppt, which is an
overview of CAFOD.
Audience: Year 5 / Year 6 pupils
Materials Required: Powerpoint resource Speak_Up_training_workshop.ppt, Lingo Bingo cards
Speak_Up_lingo_bingo_cards.pdf (1 for each pair) and the Speak_Up_lingo_bingo_story.doc.
Desired learner outcomes:
 For pupils to learn how to deliver a short talk in a public space
 By doing their own research, pupils learn more about how CAFOD works
 For pupils to have an increased understanding of the causes of poverty and injustice
Time allocation:
Presentation: 40mins -1hr
Research and writing time: 2hrs+
Slide 1: Introduction
Speak up for CAFOD – take this opportunity to explain what
we mean by public speaking, how it is important that we
learn to speak on important issues in public. Get the pupils
to reflect on a speaker who they have been inspired by.
Slide 2: Speak in public?
Have you ever had to speak in public? What do you think we
mean by speaking in public?
[Find out who has had to speak in public in your group.
Explain what we mean by public speaking: e.g. assembly,
talking to a large group, speaking at Mass etc] How did you
find it? What is different to speaking in front of a large group
compared to speaking to your friends?
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Slide 3: Communication
How much communication is down to the use of words alone?
Can anyone guess?
- Voice quality? [click 1] 38%
- Non-verbals? [click 2] 55%
- Words alone? [click 3] 7% !!
In other words, we communicate not just by words, but also
how we say them, what actions we give, what body
expressions we use. Can anyone give me an example of how
our body expressions or the way we say things can mean
different things? [give example of saying “You are really
good at sport” sarcastically, unenthusiastically and cheerfully to illustrate
this point].
Slide 4 – 9: Non-verbal game
Right. We are now going to play a little game...
Non-verbal game
This game is designed to test out the assumption that we can communicate with each
other without using words.
Setup: Split your class or group into pairs. Get the pupils to decide who will be player one
and who will be player two. For the first round, all player two has to do is to sit facing
away from the front so that they don’t see the screen with the instructions. Player one
then tries to get their companion to act out the instructions without using any words. They
may use sounds and gestures, but no words.
For the second round, get player one and two to swap around and play again.
If you wish you may want to change the scenarios or add your own, which you can do by
changing the text in the powerpoint presentation.
Debrief – How did you find that? Was that easy? So remember – your gestures and
expressions say a lot more than we think!!
Slide 10: What makes a good speaker?
Let us watch someone else give a talk, and see what we can learn from it.
[It is up to you to decide which clips to use for this – ideally you want your pupils to
understand that when speaking in public we speak a lot slower, more clearly and more
concisely, as well as not reading entirely from notes and maintaining good eye contact.
Good examples of this may be listening to a news reporter, or better still, listening to
someone delivering a short speech (e.g. government minister?). You may also wish to use
the Speak Up video on the CAFOD website (although aimed at young people) which can be
found here:
http://www.cafod.org.uk/resources/great-generation/gg-speak-up]
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Slide 11 What makes a good speaker?
Now, can anyone tell me what makes a good speaker?
[you may want to elicit some answers and write them up
somewhere]
[click 1] Now let’s see if we have covered all the major
points.
Slide 12: Talking speed
[pair up all your pupils] We will have a short exercise,
where we are going to look at talking speed. In your pairs
choose who is going to be player one and who is going to
be player two. When I start this clock I want player one to
talk about their favourite film – you will have two minutes.
When we get to two minutes I will ask you to swap around
and player two will talk about their favourite film. Ready?
Go...
Slide 13 Prayer
[don’t debrief just yet – go straight into next task]. Now I
want the whole class to read the prayer together,
Loving God,
Help us to work together to look after our world.
And share what we have so that everyone has what
they need.
Help us to build a better world where each of us can
become the best person we can be.
Amen.
Now can anyone tell me what they notice about their talking
speed? How slowly did we speak when we all said the
prayer together? Does anyone normally speak this slowly?
When we are speaking in public, especially if we have a
microphone or are in a large hall, we need to think about
speaking about the same speed as the prayer.
Slide 14
Now let’s play another game... [click 1] Let’s play Just a
minute!
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Just a minute
This game is based on the Radio 4 game (if you haven’t heard it, you may want to hear an
episode before you play! Just search online for ‘Just a minute’). The rules are simple –
players have to talk about any given subject for one minute without hesitation, deviation or
repetition! So no ‘urms’, ‘ers’, ‘mmms’, pauses, going off topic, or any repetition of any
words. When someone makes a mistake someone who is playing challenges them. For
the sake of this game, it may be best if the Teacher or leader of the session does the
challenging, and lets the next person in the row have a go.
Select four pupils to come up to the front and choose one of the subjects below.
- Fairtrade makes a real difference
- CAFOD works to overcome poverty
- We can all make a difference
Just a minute clock
You can use a stopwatch, or if you are feeling brave, you can use the countdown clock on
the powerpoint presentation.
To start press [Enter] or press the right arrow on your keyboard.
To pause (when someone makes a mistake) press ‘1’
To resume press ‘#’
Keep going until you reach the 1 minute mark. Whoever is speaking when they get to the
one minute ‘ping’ wins the round.
To reset the clock press the left arrow on your keyboard.
Learning: This is a lesson in enunciation, the ability to talk without mumbling or slurring
your words, and in speaking clearly and concisely. Also, it is a good reminder that it is
really difficult to talk without ‘umming’ or ‘err-ing’ and that is why we always need to
rehearse.
If you have time: you can play the game as above, and then split your class into groups
of five, with four playing and one as a judge, who can choose the topics their group will
talk about and challenge any mistakes. This way everyone gets a turn at practicing their
enunciation.
Slide 16: Watch your language!
CAFOD believes in the dignity of each person. So each
person should be respected regardless of their beliefs,
gender, race or politics.
So we must be careful that when we talk about people
living in poverty we do not:
- use stereotypes
Example: “people who live in Africa are poor”
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- use negative language
Example: “they are the poor helpless victims”
- be patronising
Example “...these poor helpless people really need our help”
Slide 17: Examples of bad language
Here are a few examples of language which CAFOD would
avoid using. Put yourself in their shoes – how would you
feel if someone was talking about you in this way?
Slide 18: Lingo Bingo
Now it is time to play another game...
Lingo bingo game
This game is based on bingo – where the listener has to mark off on their bingo card any
words or phrases they hear in the talk being read out.
Materials required for this game are in this pack:
- Lingo_Bingo_cards.pdf
- Speak_Up_lingo_bingo_story.doc
All pupils will work in pairs and have a bingo card each. Given the number of bingo cards
in the pack and the number of pupils in your group it is likely you will be using duplicate
bingo cards in this game, so do expect to see a few groups ‘win’ at the end! A pupil or
leader will read out the story in this pack. Everyone listens to the story and marks off the
word or phrase as they hear it. This will require very good listening skills!
Winner: There are two levels to win here. The first pair/group to get a ‘line’ (a list of
words/phrases that run horizontally, vertically or diagonally across the cards). And the
first group to get the ‘house’ – to mark off all the words and phrases on the card. You may
decide to give small prizes for each.
Learning: For pupils to hear words and phrases that CAFOD would normally use in a talk.
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