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Public Speaking Worksheet: Pauses and Pitch

Public speaking lesson 3: Your voice: pauses and pitch · Set 750 · 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.💡 To make a key word stand out, you can… (a) skip it (b) mumble it (c) stress it a little (d) say it faster
  2. 2.True or false: honouring the soldiers who served our country needs a calm and gentle voice. (a) False (b) True
  3. 3.True or false: stopping for a moment after a key point is about a pause. (a) False (b) True
  4. 4.🎚️ Which voice tool is this: your voice rising at the end of a question? (a) pace (b) pitch (c) a pause (d) volume
  5. 5.🎭 Which voice suits announcing a change in the exam timetable? (a) serious and steady (b) calm and gentle (c) cheerful and lively
  6. 6.True or false: how high or low your voice sounds is about pace. (a) True (b) False
  7. 7.🎚️ Which voice tool is this: how high or low your voice sounds? (a) pitch (b) volume (c) pace (d) a pause
  8. 8.True or false: welcoming everyone to the school fair needs a serious and steady voice. (a) False (b) True
  9. 9.True or false: welcoming shy new children to Class 1 needs a calm and gentle voice. (a) True (b) False
  10. 10.True or false: warning about the dangers of crossing the railway line needs a serious and steady voice. (a) False (b) True
  11. 11.True or false: cheering your team before a match needs a cheerful and lively voice. (a) True (b) False
  12. 12.True or false: dropping to a near-whisper for a secret is about a pause. (a) True (b) False
  13. 13.True or false: dropping to a near-whisper for a secret is about pitch. (a) True (b) False
  14. 14.True or false: giving safety steps for a fire drill needs a cheerful and lively voice. (a) False (b) True
  15. 15.🎚️ Which voice tool is this: a short silence between ideas? (a) volume (b) pace (c) pitch (d) a pause
  16. 16.🎚️ Which voice tool is this: slowing down for a phone number? (a) a pause (b) pace (c) pitch (d) volume
  17. 17.🎭 Which voice suits comforting a younger child who is scared? (a) cheerful and lively (b) calm and gentle (c) serious and steady
  18. 18.❓ After asking the audience a question, what should you do? (a) walk off the stage (b) pause for a moment (c) answer it instantly (d) ask ten more at once
  19. 19.True or false: slowing down for a phone number is about pitch. (a) False (b) True
  20. 20.🎚️ Which voice tool is this: how fast or slow you speak? (a) volume (b) pace (c) pitch (d) a pause
  21. 21.True or false: giving safety steps for a fire drill needs a calm and gentle voice. (a) False (b) True
  22. 22.True or false: announcing a change in the exam timetable needs a cheerful and lively voice. (a) True (b) False
  23. 23.🎭 Which voice suits welcoming shy new children to Class 1? (a) serious and steady (b) calm and gentle (c) cheerful and lively
  24. 24.True or false: honouring the soldiers who served our country needs a cheerful and lively voice. (a) False (b) True
  25. 25.True or false: how fast or slow you speak is about volume. (a) True (b) False
  26. 26.🎵 Pitch is about how ___ your voice sounds. (a) long or short (b) high or low (c) loud or soft (d) fast or slow
  27. 27.🎚️ Which voice tool is this: how loud or soft you speak? (a) a pause (b) pitch (c) volume (d) pace
  28. 28.🎭 Which voice suits cheering your team before a match? (a) calm and gentle (b) serious and steady (c) cheerful and lively
  29. 29.True or false: how high or low your voice sounds is about pitch. (a) True (b) False
  30. 30.🎭 Which voice suits welcoming everyone to the school fair? (a) cheerful and lively (b) serious and steady (c) calm and gentle
  31. 31.🎚️ Which voice tool is this: speeding up for an exciting chase? (a) pace (b) a pause (c) volume (d) pitch
  32. 32.🎚️ Which voice tool is this: stopping for a moment after a key point? (a) pace (b) volume (c) pitch (d) a pause
  33. 33.True or false: a short silence between ideas is about volume. (a) True (b) False
  34. 34.True or false: speeding up for an exciting chase is about a pause. (a) True (b) False
  35. 35.True or false: reading a bedtime story to a little cousin needs a cheerful and lively voice. (a) True (b) False
  36. 36.True or false: how fast or slow you speak is about a pause. (a) False (b) True
  37. 37.❔ When you ask a yes–no question in English, your voice often… (a) gets very loud (b) goes silent (c) rises at the end (d) stops in the middle
  38. 38.True or false: stopping for a moment after a key point is about volume. (a) True (b) False
  39. 39.🎚️ Which voice tool is this: speaking up so the back row hears? (a) pitch (b) a pause (c) pace (d) volume
  40. 40.⏸️ What does a short pause just before a key line do? (a) confuses everyone (b) wastes the speech (c) builds interest (d) makes people leave

Answer key

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

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