Two speeches: comparison/planning grid

Students should be assigned a speech topic that they could give to either Grade 9/Year 10 students or staff members/parents/governors. This could be, for example, “school uniforms should be abolished” or “the school day should start one hour later than it does now”. This planning grid enables students to compare what is required in terms of diction, tone, syntax and so on. Students should be made aware of the meanings of the terms in the grid before proceeding. Once they have planned, they could either write a comparative/analytical paragraph, explaining what is the same/different about each speech to each audience, and/or actually choose a speech to write based on the grid.