Public Speaking Worksheet: Pauses and Pitch

Public speaking lesson 3: Your voice: pauses and pitch · Set 190 · 40 questions

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.

1. 1.🎭 Which voice suits wishing everyone a happy festival? (a) serious and steady (b) cheerful and lively (c) calm and gentle
2. 2.True or false: leading a quiet breathing exercise in assembly needs a serious and steady voice. (a) False (b) True
3. 3.True or false: announcing the Sports Day winners needs a cheerful and lively voice. (a) True (b) False
4. 4.🎭 Which voice suits honouring the soldiers who served our country? (a) calm and gentle (b) cheerful and lively (c) serious and steady
5. 5.🎭 Which voice suits welcoming everyone to the school fair? (a) calm and gentle (b) serious and steady (c) cheerful and lively
6. 6.True or false: leading a quiet breathing exercise in assembly needs a calm and gentle voice. (a) True (b) False
7. 7.True or false: dropping to a near-whisper for a secret is about a pause. (a) True (b) False
8. 8.True or false: wishing everyone a happy festival needs a calm and gentle voice. (a) True (b) False
9. 9.🎭 Which voice suits announcing a change in the exam timetable? (a) calm and gentle (b) cheerful and lively (c) serious and steady
10. 10.🎵 Pitch is about how ___ your voice sounds. (a) fast or slow (b) high or low (c) loud or soft (d) long or short
11. 11.True or false: welcoming everyone to the school fair needs a cheerful and lively voice. (a) False (b) True
12. 12.🎚️ Which voice tool is this: dropping to a near-whisper for a secret? (a) pitch (b) a pause (c) pace (d) volume
13. 13.💡 To make a key word stand out, you can… (a) stress it a little (b) say it faster (c) mumble it (d) skip it
14. 14.True or false: your voice rising at the end of a question is about volume. (a) False (b) True
15. 15.⏸️ Where is the best place to pause in a speech? (a) after an important point (b) never at all (c) in the middle of a word (d) after every word
16. 16.🎭 Which voice suits warning about the dangers of crossing the railway line? (a) cheerful and lively (b) calm and gentle (c) serious and steady
17. 17.🎭 Which voice suits giving safety steps for a fire drill? (a) cheerful and lively (b) serious and steady (c) calm and gentle
18. 18.True or false: how loud or soft you speak is about a pause. (a) True (b) False
19. 19.🎭 Which voice suits reading a bedtime story to a little cousin? (a) serious and steady (b) calm and gentle (c) cheerful and lively
20. 20.True or false: waiting a second before the big reveal is about volume. (a) True (b) False
21. 21.True or false: a short silence between ideas is about a pause. (a) False (b) True
22. 22.🎚️ Which voice tool is this: how fast or slow you speak? (a) a pause (b) pitch (c) volume (d) pace
23. 23.🎭 Which voice suits cheering your team before a match? (a) calm and gentle (b) serious and steady (c) cheerful and lively
24. 24.❔ When you ask a yes–no question in English, your voice often… (a) gets very loud (b) stops in the middle (c) rises at the end (d) goes silent
25. 25.🎚️ Which voice tool is this: a short silence between ideas? (a) volume (b) pitch (c) a pause (d) pace
26. 26.🎭 Which voice suits welcoming shy new children to Class 1? (a) cheerful and lively (b) calm and gentle (c) serious and steady
27. 27.🤐 Instead of saying “um” again and again, it is better to… (a) say “um” louder (b) repeat the last word (c) pause silently (d) speak faster
28. 28.🎚️ Which voice tool is this: speaking up so the back row hears? (a) volume (b) a pause (c) pitch (d) pace
29. 29.❓ After asking the audience a question, what should you do? (a) walk off the stage (b) ask ten more at once (c) pause for a moment (d) answer it instantly
30. 30.True or false: reading a bedtime story to a little cousin needs a calm and gentle voice. (a) False (b) True
31. 31.🎭 Which voice suits announcing the Sports Day winners? (a) calm and gentle (b) cheerful and lively (c) serious and steady
32. 32.True or false: announcing a change in the exam timetable needs a calm and gentle voice. (a) False (b) True
33. 33.True or false: how loud or soft you speak is about pitch. (a) False (b) True
34. 34.🎚️ Which voice tool is this: how high or low your voice sounds? (a) pitch (b) pace (c) volume (d) a pause
35. 35.True or false: welcoming shy new children to Class 1 needs a serious and steady voice. (a) True (b) False
36. 36.True or false: wishing everyone a happy festival needs a serious and steady voice. (a) False (b) True
37. 37.🎚️ Which voice tool is this: speeding up for an exciting chase? (a) a pause (b) pace (c) pitch (d) volume
38. 38.⏸️ What does a short pause just before a key line do? (a) confuses everyone (b) builds interest (c) wastes the speech (d) makes people leave
39. 39.True or false: slowing down for a phone number is about pace. (a) False (b) True
40. 40.True or false: a deep voice for a giant in a story is about a pause. (a) True (b) False

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