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Finding quality, affordable resources to help make teaching public speaking delivery more fun is challenging. Drawing on elements of Taboo, charades, and a love of emojis, I created Well Said! A fun, friendly, silly public speaking game! In this game, students will interpret famous quotations with an assigned emotion and element of public speaking delivery (gestures, tone, etc.). Their teammates will have to guess which emotion and public speaking element they are emphasizing. Here’s how it works.
How to Play “Well Said!”
- Random Quotation: Each round begins with a student drawing a famous quotation at random. For example, they might get, “Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country.” — John F. Kennedy.
- Emotion and Delivery Cards: The student then draws an “emotion” card and a “delivery” card. The emotion might be “anger,” and the delivery card could instruct the student to focus on “gestures.”
- Perform the Quotation: Within a 15-second time limit, the student performs the quotation for their team, emphasizing the drawn emotion and delivery aspect. In this case, the student would present the JFK quotation with a focus on expressing anger through gestures.
- Team Guessing: The student’s team must guess both the emotion (“anger”) and the delivery focus (“gestures”) to win the round.
Points are earned for correct guesses, and teams can lose points for incorrect ones. The game continues until one team successfully crosses the finish line by winning enough rounds.
Why Your Students Will Love “Well Said!”
If you want a quiet classroom, this is not the game for you. If you’re looking for fun resources to get kids out of their shells to have more precise, intentional speaking delivery, and you can manage a little controlled chaos, you’ll love playing Well Said!
