CONGRATULATIONS

A big congratulations to Shaynie-Lee, Sofia and Amelia who performed their speech at the Middle Syndicate Speech Finals today. You all spoke so well in front of all five Middle Syndicate classes, teachers, parents and two judges. You can all be very proud of yourselves because Room 11 are!
A special congratulations to Shaynie-Lee who has made it through to our School Speech Finals night on July 19 in the hall.
To check out their speeches visit their individual blogs and leave a comment for them.

Good Speeches

Then we watched these two examples of what a good speech looks and sounds like. The two girls sway a bit on their feet and we are going to work on not doing this too much because it can be distracting. They also have accents and the video quality isn't great which sometimes makes them hard to hear but the things we liked about their speeches were;

-Spoke loudly and clearly easy to understand- Josh

-She kept looking at the audience –Shaynie-Lee

-Everyone is hearing her speech – Tawhiao

-Started the speech in an interesting way – Rhiannon

-Acting at the start – Filipe

-Never used ums and ahs – Shaynie-Lee

-Added funny/humour- Gina

DOG SPEECH

-She used actions to help – Shaynie-Lee

-Spoke clearly and loudly- Sarah (A little bit hard to understand with accent)

-She had practiced her speech and knew it really well – Faye

-She didn’t use ums or ahs-Sarah

-Used humour- Sofia

Speeches- Tips on what not to do!

We have begun speeches time! We are all excited about having the chance to stand up in front of our class and practice writing and performing our speeches before our real one in a few weeks time. We hope to have a few from Room 11 go through to the Middle Syndicate finals and maybe even the school speech finals.
Today we watched this clip which showed us some tips on what not to do when performing our speech.

After watching it we realised that we need to;

Talk clearly and speak up (Alex)-Otherwise you don’t know what they are saying (Tawhiao)

Look at the audience, eye contact (Maggie)- Because if you don’t the audience won’t see your face you look silly and it is not very interesting for the audience to look at a piece of paper (Paarth)

Don’t use um’s and ah’s (Faye)-Makes your speech sound silly (Sarah) It doesn’t sound interesting (Gina)  The audience can’t concentrate or focus on your message (Alex)

Don’t talk too fast (Samuel) – They can’t hear you or your message (Tawhaio)