Drama for Public Speaking

You will have questions throughout and at end of the slideshow to prove your understanding.

There are also questions about emphasis.

Multiple Choice

What is drama?

• Stories written long ago & passed down from generation to generation.

• Stories that have magical elements in it.

• Stories that can be acted out in front of an audience.

• Nonfiction text that a reader can learn something from.

Multiple Choice

These are the actors who act out in the play.

• characters

• act

• narrator

• dialogue

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A scene ​is a single situation or unit of dialogue in a play. A scene all takes in one place.

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A scene ​is a single situation or unit of dialogue in a play. A scene all takes in one place.

DON'T SAY THE INSTRUCTIONS OUT LOUD.

Multiple Choice

What do you call when and where the play takes place?

• script

• stage directions

• plot

• setting

Multiple Choice

What do you call the written UNSPOKEN instructions that tell an actor what to do while on stage?

• setting

• dialogue

• stage directions

• plot

Multiple Choice

Smaller chunks of the story that take place in a single setting are called?

• stage

• plot

• scene

• stage directions

Multiple Choice

What do you call the written text of a play, including the dialogue and the stage directions?

• plot

• script

• stage directions

• drama

Multiple Choice

Who is the person that gives the audience information about what is happening?

• script

• narrator

• stage directions

• characters

Audio Response

How is this drama unit going to improve your public speaking skills?
Be specific and detailed.

Open Audio Recorder

Multiple Select

Which type of words should we emphasize?

Choose all the correct answers that apply

• • Nouns

  • imagery/emotion

• Small words like prepositions &

  • conjunctions

• • Active verbs

• • Meaningful adjectives

Multiple Select

How do we emphasize in speaking?

Choose all the correct answers that apply

• • Stretch out the vowel sound

• • Speaking slower when saying the word

• • Put emphasis on all words

• • Pause after the word is spoken

Audio Response

Say this dialogue with emphasis and emotion.

Open Audio Recorder

Audio Response

Say this dialogue with emphasis and emotion.

Open Audio Recorder