This document outlines the requirements for a group speech assessment. Students must work in groups of up to 4 people to write and present an interview between a media presenter and characters from the novel "The Outsiders". Each student must speak for at least 1 minute. The presentation will be assessed on the use of oral techniques, voice, language, and coherence. The document provides guidance on roles, content, language techniques, and delivery skills to include in the presentation.

1. Year 10
Speech
3 credits
Term 2 report
Christine Wells

2. The task
• Imagine that a media presenter is going to
interview the characters from The Outsiders.
• In groups of up to 4 people, write and present the
interview for the class.
• Each person in your group must take a role and
each person must speak for a total of at least 1
minute to be assessed for their oral presentation
skills.
• 1 person will be the presenter and the others will
be the characters from the novel.

3. You will be assessed on…
Achieved
• uses appropriate oral and visual techniques for a specific audience and
purpose
• voice techniques are used with some variety
• language is suitably mature
• shows awareness of audience through humour, word choice
• presents material clearly
Achieved with Merit
• combines appropriate oral and visual techniques for a specific audience and
purpose
• establishes audience attention and interest with humour
• uses voice to support content, such as an accent
• uses purposeful gestures
• presents material coherently
Achieved with Excellence
• integrates appropriate oral and visual techniques for a specific
audience and purpose
• establishes audience rapport by using surprise, or a striking
movement
• uses voice to striking effect with little reliance on notes
• integrates gestures with impact
• presents material coherently in a striking way

4. Achieved with Excellence
• integrates appropriate oral and visual techniques for a specific
audience and purpose
This means that the techniques we have learnt are weaved into your
presentation in a natural manner, without being overly obvious.
They will relate to the presentation task which is a ‘talk show’
interview.
• establishes audience rapport by using surprise, or a striking
movement
This means that you will relate to the audience and make them feel
included by using a surprising or striking activity to get them
involved.
• uses voice to striking effect with little reliance on notes
This means that you will know your part of the presentation well and
you will sound confident and clear.
• integrates gestures with impact
This means that you will use gestures in a way that clearly supports
what you are saying.
• presents material coherently in a striking way
This means that your presentation will make sense and you will have
the audience ‘in the palm of your hand’.

5. The presenter
The presenter is the person who is in
charge of the interview. This person
asks the questions.
As a presenter you will need to:
• Introduce the programme and
characters Gathering
• Ask the questions, aim for at least 5
questions per character. You group
can help you write the questions.
• At the end of your presentation you
will need to thank your guests and
the audience for watching.

6. The guests/characters Gathering
• Your role is to answer the
questions that the presenter
asks.
• Remember you each need to
speak for a total of at least 1
minute so make sure your
answers are comprehensive.
• You will each work with the
presenter to prepare the
answers to each question.

7. Thinking
Relating to others
Using text, symbols and
language
Task 1 Managing self
Participating
1. Choose your group.
2. Decide which role each person will
take.
3. Brainstorm ideas for your
interview:
• What questions will you ask?
• Will you focus on a particular
incident in the novel?
• Will you ask the characters about the
Gathering
Processing kind of person either Johnny or Dally
was when they were alive?

8. Task 2: Complete the following comments:
Thinking
1. A good speaker doesn’t: Using text, symbols and
language
Managing self
2. The best techniques for public speaking are: Participating
3. The best public speaker I have ever seen was______________
because:
4. Teachers don’t realise it but public speaking is___________
because:
Gathering
5. When I have to speak in front of a large group I
feel________________ because: Processing
6. There is no point in learning to speak well in front of others
because:
7. Duh! You have to be able to speak well in front of others because:

9. The Language of Oratory: techniques to include.
Rhetorical Question
a question asked for effect, but not necessarily needing to be
answered
Example: Are we going to put up with curfews and being hassled by
the police up town? Who cares? Do you think it is right? I don't.
How do you stay healthy on a diet of chips and chocolate?
Exaggeration
trying to impress or influence by overstating a viewpoint, statement
or idea
Example: Millions of students all over the world go home and rush
eagerly into their homework in order to secure their future.
Gathering

10. Pronouns to address the audience
Basically to address them as a group, but
not necessarily to persuade them at this
stage.
Example: You are here tonight to witness
the finals of the speech contest, where
your sons and daughters face up to a great
challenge.
Pronouns to include the audience
Speakers want the audience to be on their
side and agree with their statements/ideas
Example: We came here tonight to choose
our town symbol. We don't want a clock -
Alexandra has a clock. We don't want a
humungus trout as our symbol - Rakaia
and Turangi have megatrouts. Let us
choose our White Horse - it's ours and
always will be.

11. EMOTIVE LANGUAGE
Similar in effect to use of pronouns, choice of
words packed with emotion can influence an
audience for or against your ideas, to be with you
or against you.
Words With Positive Connotation
Warm fuzzy words that help to get the audience on
your side.
Example: Imagine the perfect scene, not a care in
the world, walking down the street hand in hand
with your adoring parents....they stop and buy you
a $1.50 triple scoop choc dipped ice cream.....
Words With Negative Connotation
These weasel words have the opposite effects to
positively charged emotive words.
Example: From a distance you see them appear,
dressed in black, hair like knotted liquorice. Their
top lips quiver and sneer in unison like Elvis with a
toothache. They see you and appear to scowl and
grunt at each other and point at you accusingly.

12. FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE
Language that creates a picture in the mind of the listener can assist in the interest
level of a speech.
Metaphor
Describing two unrelated things using direct comparison.
...the salesman was a shark..
the whole sorry incident left a sour taste for every one concerned.
Politicians should darn the holes in the ragged economy before we all start to feel the
cold.
Simile
Describing two unrelated things or ideas using the linkers "like" or "as"
Example: My love is like a red, red rose that's newly sprung in June, My love is like a
melody that's sweetly played in tune.
Personification
Giving human qualities to non human or inanimate things
Example: The New Zealand Dollar had a quiet week
Life dealt him a heavy blow
Clouds passed sorrowfully over the graveyard

13. OTHER ORATORICAL DEVICES
There are some other devices which help to make speeches more
interesting, vibrant, memorable.
Repetition
Hammer home a point and make it memorable using repetition
Example: Trust is an important concept in society. If you can't trust
friends not to blab your secrets all over school; if you can't trust
teachers not to blast you for something that he or she let someone
away with yesterday; if parents can't trust you enough to let you
borrow the car - how can you survive in the modern world.
Listing
In order to emphasise important points lists are often used
Example: Instead of: this school rule change affects all students, say
this new school rule change affects form 1's ; form 2's; form 3's;
form 4's; form 5's; form 6's; and even form 7's.
OR instead of saying a superannuation law change affects everyone
say: This law change will impact on town people and country
people; rich people and poor people, maori, pacific islander, Asian
and European; employed and unemployed alike.

14. Interview content
Your presentation should include the following
techniques:
• Rhetorical questions
• Exaggeration
• Personal pronouns eg you, we.
• Emotive language
• A metaphor, simile or personification
• List of three
• Repetition
• A strong beginning and ending. Capture the
audiences’ attention with an effective opening
and clear conclusion.

15. Thinking
Relating to others
Using text, symbols and language
Managing self
Participating
Task 3: Write the interview
In your groups, write the
questions and answers for
your interview.
• Your questions should be
open ended.
• Use what, where, when,
why, who and how.
• Make sure they are
appropriate and focus on
the novel.
• Remember to include the
language techniques.
Processing
Applying

16. Delivery
Use your voice effectively to convey your message and
persuade. Include the following in your presentation.
1. Tone: Here you use voice to stress key points so the
audience understand your feelings
2. Volume: the audience must be able to hear you.
3. Pace: do not speak too quickly or too slowly
4. Pause after important points and rhetorical questions so
the audience can think and reflect on your message.
5. Gesture: Use your hands to help involve the audience and
emphasise points
6. Eye contact is essential to passing any speech. Make a
connection with your audience.
7. Stance: Stand still unless your speech needs some
movement.

17. Thinking
Using text, symbols and
Task 4: Notate your interview language
Managing self
Participating
• Write down the delivery techniques
that you will use in the appropriate
part of your interview.
For example: Voice tone
Good morning class! My name is Bob
and the person that I have Eye contact
researched is Stanley Manthyng.
Stanley is an artist, musician and
house painter. He is also very
entrepreneurial and has run his
own businesses such as the Volume
Pancake Parlour in Dunedin.
Processing

18. Check list
1. Does your speaking part last for at least 1 minute?
2. Does it include the required language techniques?
3. Is your part notated with delivery techniques?
4. Is the language used mature and appropriate?

19. Thinking
Relating to others
Using text, symbols and
language
Task 5: Practise! Managing self
Participating
• Once you have written
your interview it is time
to practise the delivery
of it.
• Practise in small
groups.
Applying

20. Thinking
Relating to others
Using text, symbols and
language
Managing self
Presentation Participating
• Present your interview to the class.
• You may want to dress up in a costume that is
appropriate to your character.
• Each person will be assessed and the credits (3)
will be on your term 2 report.
Applying