Spoken language endorsement: presenting and responding
Reported separately from the grade but printed on your certificate. It is a genuine presentation with questions afterwards — and it is very passable with preparation.
Lesson overview
What you'll learn in this lesson
Present information and ideas, respond to questions and feedback, and use spoken standard English.
Key learning points
- • What is assessed
- • Choosing a topic
- • Structuring the talk
- • Handling questions
This lesson at a glance
- 25 minutes
- 17 parts to scroll through
- 4 quick checks
- Marked quiz at the end
- Gentle pace: short sittings with pauses
Words to know
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Spoken language endorsement: presenting and responding
An English teaching video on this topic from First Rate Tutors. Watch it, then scroll down for the lesson.
In a nutshell
Present information and ideas, respond to questions and feedback, and use spoken standard English.
Learning cycle
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Learning cycle 1 of 2
Part 1 · What is assessed
A short piece of teaching, then a check to make sure it has landed.
Explore the idea
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Learn
What is assessed
Presenting information and ideas clearly, listening and responding to questions, and using spoken standard English. Pass, merit and distinction are awarded; there is no fail that affects your 9–1 grade.
Explore the idea
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Learn
Choosing a topic
Choose something you can be questioned about for five minutes. A topic you already know deeply beats an impressive one you researched last night, because the questions are where merit and distinction are decided.
Quick check
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Quick check
How does the spoken language endorsement affect your 9–1 grade?
Quick check
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Quick check
What is the best basis for choosing a topic?
Learning cycle
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Learning cycle 2 of 2
Part 2 · Structuring the talk
A short piece of teaching, then a check to make sure it has landed.
Reset break
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Pause
That's sitting 1 of 2 done
Stretch, get a drink, look out of the window. There is no timer and nothing is counting down — your place is saved, so you can come back in five minutes or tomorrow.
Explore the idea
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Learn
Structuring the talk
Five to seven minutes: a hook, three developed points with concrete examples, and a close that answers the question you began with. Cue cards with six words per card, never a script.
Explore the idea
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Learn
Handling questions
Repeat or reframe the question before answering — it buys thinking time and shows listening. If you do not know, say what you would need to find out. That is a distinction-level response, not a failure.
Quick check
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Quick check
What should cue cards contain?
Quick check
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Quick check
A question comes that you cannot answer. What is the best response?
Explore the idea
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Worked example
Preparation task
Draft a seven-minute talk on a subject you already know well: hook, three points with concrete examples, close. Write six anticipated questions and one-sentence answers for each, then rehearse aloud twice from cue cards only.
Challenge round
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Game · Sort it
Which of these are true?
Drag each card into the right column. Tap a card first if dragging is fiddly.
True
Not true
Challenge round
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Game · Fill the gaps
Finish the sentences
Choose the word that belongs in each gap.
Presenting ____ and ideas clearly, listening and responding to questions, and using spoken standard English.
A topic you already know deeply beats an impressive one you researched last night, because the ____ are where merit and distinction are decided.
Mastery quiz
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Marked quiz
End of lesson quiz: Spoken language endorsement: presenting and responding
4 questions, marked with the reasoning shown. No timer.
1. How does the spoken language endorsement affect your 9–1 grade?
2. What is the best basis for choosing a topic?
3. What should cue cards contain?
4. A question comes that you cannot answer. What is the best response?
Lesson round-up
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Lesson round-up
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Your written work for this lesson
This is the part you'd do in your book at school. Pick the pieces below, write here or on paper, and photograph anything you draw or work out.
The last bus
The bus shelter smelled of wet coats. Mira pressed her timetable flat against the glass, as though staring at the numbers might make the 9:42 appear. Rain tapped the roof in small, impatient fingers. Somewhere behind her, a shop shutter came down with a sound like a full stop.
She had been brave all day. She had been brave in the corridor, brave at lunch, brave when the register reached her name and nobody looked up. Being brave, she decided, was mostly a matter of keeping your face still.
Headlights swung around the corner and lit the puddles gold. Mira picked up her bag. Tomorrow she would say something. Tonight she would simply go home.
Original extract written for Good Learning Co.
Reading questions
- Find two words or phrases that show how Mira is feeling, and explain what each one suggests.
- How does the writer use the weather and the sounds to build the mood? Use a short quotation.
- Write the next paragraph in the same style, keeping the writer's short sentences at the moments that matter.
Reading response
ReadingRead the extract again, then write about how the writer makes you feel that way. Use a short quotation and explain your choice of words.
2 paragraphs (PEE)
Extended writing
WritingWrite your piece in full, then redraft the opening so it hooks the reader.
250–350 words
Reading log
ReadingNote the book, the pages you read and one thing you noticed about the writing.
20 minutes' reading
Saved as you type.
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