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Public Speaking Worksheet: Pauses and Pitch

Public speaking lesson 3: Your voice: pauses and pitch · Set 182 · 40 questions
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Speaker's tip (Pause, then rise and fall): Four voice tools: volume (loud or soft), pace (fast or slow), pitch (high or low) and the pause (a short silence). Pause after a key point, after asking the audience a question and before a big reveal. Replace “um” with a silent pause. Match the mood: cheerful and lively, calm and gentle, or serious and steady. Stress a key word a little to make it stand out.

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  1. 1.❔ When you ask a yes–no question in English, your voice often… (a) goes silent (b) stops in the middle (c) gets very loud (d) rises at the end
  2. 2.True or false: welcoming everyone to the school fair needs a calm and gentle voice. (a) True (b) False
  3. 3.🎭 Which voice suits welcoming shy new children to Class 1? (a) cheerful and lively (b) serious and steady (c) calm and gentle
  4. 4.🎚️ Which voice tool is this: speaking up so the back row hears? (a) pitch (b) pace (c) volume (d) a pause
  5. 5.🎭 Which voice suits honouring the soldiers who served our country? (a) cheerful and lively (b) calm and gentle (c) serious and steady
  6. 6.🤐 Instead of saying “um” again and again, it is better to… (a) speak faster (b) say “um” louder (c) repeat the last word (d) pause silently
  7. 7.💡 To make a key word stand out, you can… (a) stress it a little (b) say it faster (c) skip it (d) mumble it
  8. 8.True or false: reading a bedtime story to a little cousin needs a cheerful and lively voice. (a) False (b) True
  9. 9.❓ After asking the audience a question, what should you do? (a) pause for a moment (b) answer it instantly (c) ask ten more at once (d) walk off the stage
  10. 10.🎚️ Which voice tool is this: how fast or slow you speak? (a) pitch (b) volume (c) a pause (d) pace
  11. 11.True or false: honouring the soldiers who served our country needs a calm and gentle voice. (a) False (b) True
  12. 12.🎚️ Which voice tool is this: how high or low your voice sounds? (a) pitch (b) a pause (c) pace (d) volume
  13. 13.True or false: wishing everyone a happy festival needs a serious and steady voice. (a) True (b) False
  14. 14.True or false: a short silence between ideas is about a pause. (a) True (b) False
  15. 15.True or false: speaking up so the back row hears is about volume. (a) False (b) True
  16. 16.True or false: announcing the Sports Day winners needs a serious and steady voice. (a) True (b) False
  17. 17.🎵 A voice that stays on one flat note all the time sounds… (a) melodious (b) monotonous (c) expressive (d) energetic
  18. 18.🎭 Which voice suits cheering your team before a match? (a) serious and steady (b) cheerful and lively (c) calm and gentle
  19. 19.True or false: your voice rising at the end of a question is about pace. (a) True (b) False
  20. 20.True or false: your voice rising at the end of a question is about volume. (a) False (b) True
  21. 21.🎭 Which voice suits announcing a change in the exam timetable? (a) cheerful and lively (b) calm and gentle (c) serious and steady
  22. 22.True or false: your voice rising at the end of a question is about pitch. (a) False (b) True
  23. 23.True or false: how high or low your voice sounds is about pace. (a) True (b) False
  24. 24.🎚️ Which voice tool is this: dropping to a near-whisper for a secret? (a) pitch (b) volume (c) pace (d) a pause
  25. 25.🎭 Which voice suits reading a bedtime story to a little cousin? (a) cheerful and lively (b) calm and gentle (c) serious and steady
  26. 26.True or false: dropping to a near-whisper for a secret is about volume. (a) False (b) True
  27. 27.True or false: a short silence between ideas is about volume. (a) True (b) False
  28. 28.True or false: announcing a change in the exam timetable needs a cheerful and lively voice. (a) True (b) False
  29. 29.True or false: wishing everyone a happy festival needs a calm and gentle voice. (a) True (b) False
  30. 30.⏸️ What does a short pause just before a key line do? (a) builds interest (b) wastes the speech (c) confuses everyone (d) makes people leave
  31. 31.True or false: telling a funny moment from a picnic needs a cheerful and lively voice. (a) True (b) False
  32. 32.True or false: stopping for a moment after a key point is about pitch. (a) False (b) True
  33. 33.True or false: waiting a second before the big reveal is about a pause. (a) True (b) False
  34. 34.True or false: reading a bedtime story to a little cousin needs a calm and gentle voice. (a) False (b) True
  35. 35.🎭 Which voice suits telling a funny moment from a picnic? (a) serious and steady (b) cheerful and lively (c) calm and gentle
  36. 36.🎚️ Which voice tool is this: speeding up for an exciting chase? (a) pitch (b) volume (c) a pause (d) pace
  37. 37.True or false: slowing down for a phone number is about pitch. (a) True (b) False
  38. 38.🎭 Which voice suits welcoming everyone to the school fair? (a) cheerful and lively (b) serious and steady (c) calm and gentle
  39. 39.True or false: how fast or slow you speak is about volume. (a) False (b) True
  40. 40.True or false: honouring the soldiers who served our country needs a serious and steady voice. (a) True (b) False

Answer key

  1. rises at the end
  2. False
  3. calm and gentle
  4. volume
  5. serious and steady
  6. pause silently
  7. stress it a little
  8. False
  9. pause for a moment
  10. pace
  11. False
  12. pitch
  13. False
  14. True
  15. True
  16. False
  17. monotonous
  18. cheerful and lively
  19. False
  20. False
  21. serious and steady
  22. True
  23. False
  24. volume
  25. calm and gentle
  26. True
  27. False
  28. False
  29. False
  30. builds interest
  31. True
  32. False
  33. True
  34. True
  35. cheerful and lively
  36. pace
  37. False
  38. cheerful and lively
  39. False
  40. True

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