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WJEC Speaking &
Listening
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5-minute Assessment
• ‘Creating and sustaining a character.’
• You may use a script – but you’ll lose marks if you only read from it.
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Learning Outcomes
D Grade– Successfully “create” a character by making deliberate
language choices.– Use body language and tone of voice to help present the
character.C- B Grade– Present a character by making deliberate choices of
speech, body language and keeping in the role.A Grade– Sustain the role and develop it by adapting to different
scenarios and situations.
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Monologue
• 2-minute intro.
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WgjLyk57zG8
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Your Task
• You have to bring out the inner turmoil that your character is going through.
• You have to show that you understand your character and that you understand the play.
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Creating a Character
• Who is the character?
• Is it played the way you’d expect?
• What do you notice about the timing?
• Who is the character talking to?
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9UbqZ_oN5do
• 3-minute monologue by Rowan Atkinson
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Famous Classical Monologues• http://www.youtube.co
m/watch?NR=1&v=xYZHb2xo0OI&feature=endscreen
• 3 minutes – David Tennant’s Hamlet
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pusU90ov8pQ&feature=related
• 3 minutes – Patrick Stewart’s Macbeth
NB: these characters are talking to themselves - this is called a soliloquy.
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Short Monologues can be Effective• http://www.youtube.com
/watch?v=QlZFfXAUr2I
• Rowley Birkin QC from the Fast Show
• What’s the mood of this monologue?
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Creating your Character
• Decide what kind of monologue you want to write.• Choose your
character.
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1. Outline your idea first and know what you want to accomplish in your monologue before you begin writing.
2. Start by picking one aspect of your character’s life/emotional turmoil to focus on.
3. Next, decide if your character is talking to themselves or to other people.
4. Create a situation that allows your character to reveal themselves.
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With Eric, you could focus on his drinking.
• Eric could be in a bar explaining WHY he drinks. Or pretending that he doesn’t drink. Or he could be at an AA meeting: ‘My name is Eric and I’m an alcoholic...’
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Or you could put him in a the police station...
• Now he has to explain why he stole from his father.
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How will your character talk?
Language• Eric uses lots of
old-fashioned slang: squiffy, smashing, beastly.
Tone and Accent• http://www.youtube.com/w
atch?v=3UgpfSp2t6k&feature=relmfu
• 21 ways to say: ‘Hello, my name’s Amy Walker.’
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Tone & Accent
Joyce Grenfell
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXhHFgDRNBQ
4.5 minutes
Listen for the emotions
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Showcase your Knowledge
Character = Language• You have to show that you understand your character and
that you know how they talk.
• Mrs Birling – formal and self-righteous.• Mr Birling – pompous and given to monologues.• Eric – self justifying and slangy.• Sheila – passionate and slangy.• Edna – casual and funny.
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Scenarios• That night, one of the characters looks back
over their life and wishes they’d behaved differently.
• A long time later, one of the characters reviews the events of the play.
• An ‘outsider’ such as Edna gives their view of the story.
• One of the characters is in a new situation and has to explain what happened on the night of the play.
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• Pairwork – one student played Eric and the other his conscience.
• A mad Mrs Birling held a funeral for a fantasy grandchild.
• A cancer-ridden Eric realised that Daisy was the love of his life.
• Eva told us how she felt the moment before she committed suicide.
• Edna listened at the drawing room door and then told the cook what she’d overheard.
• The charity committee ask Mrs Birling to leave because of the scandal.
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Create Your Monologue
1. Chose a character.2. Decide what emotion/topic you will
focus on.3. Decide who your character is talking to.4. Chose a situation.5. Select appropriate tone and vocabulary.