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Live Seminar on Pauses and Phrases (G5 Verse and Prose Knowledge) · Gabi’s Speech and Drama Podcast

• 0:03
  SPEAKER_02: Hello, everybody.
• 0:04
  SPEAKER_02: And if you are not here with us live,
• 0:06
  SPEAKER_02: welcome to Gabi’s Speech and Drama Community October Meetup.
• 0:11
  SPEAKER_02: And we are going to be talking about grade five,
• 0:15
  SPEAKER_02: verse and prose knowledge, pauses and phrases.
• 0:19
  SPEAKER_02: It's one of those really kind of sticky ones
• 0:23
  SPEAKER_02: that some students just struggle to get their head around.
• 0:28
  SPEAKER_02: And I think some teachers struggle to get their head around as well.
• 0:32
  SPEAKER_02: So So I'm wondering sort of the best,
• 0:36
  SPEAKER_02: I might just sort of ask the people who are here first,
• 0:40
  SPEAKER_02: if they've taught the subject before,
• 0:43
  SPEAKER_02: if they have had any really useful ways of teaching it
• 0:50
  SPEAKER_02: and any struggles.
• 0:54
  SPEAKER_02: So Natalie, do you want to unmute yourself first and
• 0:59
  SPEAKER_00: let us know?
• 1:00
  SPEAKER_02: Sorry, I'm no help, I don't do this.
• 1:05
  SPEAKER_02: No, I'm just here.
• 1:07
  SPEAKER_02: You're just here because one day you might.
• 1:10
  SPEAKER_02: And also when we finish talking about pauses and phrases,
• 1:12
  SPEAKER_02: we can talk about other things as well.
• 1:15
  SPEAKER_02: How about you, Emma?
• 1:17
  SPEAKER_02: Have you done this one before?
• 1:19
  SPEAKER_02: Same. No.
• 1:21
  SPEAKER_02: Are you, because you've got a whole load of new students, is that right?
• 1:25
  SPEAKER_02: Do you think any of them will be doing it or you don't know yet?
• 1:28
  SPEAKER_02: Not sure yet, but I'm looking forward to this because I feel like
• 1:32
  SPEAKER_00: I need to know this going forward just in case someone's keen to do it.
• 1:37
  SPEAKER_02: And also, I suppose we should, as speech and drama teachers,
• 1:42
  SPEAKER_02: kind of know what the different pauses and phrases are anyway.
• 1:46
  SPEAKER_02: I certainly know that with suspensory pauses and cesurial pauses, I do, you know,
• 1:53
  SPEAKER_02: those ones sort of come up.
• 1:55
  SPEAKER_02: All the time at other grades as well.
• 2:00
  SPEAKER_02: So definitely those ones are sort of worth just having in your arsenal of pauses
• 2:05
  SPEAKER_02: that you know about. How about you, Kate?
• 2:11
  SPEAKER_00: No, I have taught it before.
• 2:14
  SPEAKER_00: And yeah, a lot of the pauses, you know,
• 2:17
  SPEAKER_00: and obviously you do just automatically without thinking about.
• 2:21
  SPEAKER_00: But for me, I always get struggle on the metrical and the
• 2:28
  SPEAKER_00: We did it last time. I did it last time with you when you did whatever.
• 2:31
  SPEAKER_00: And I wrote something down, but by the time I went around to reading it,
• 2:35
  SPEAKER_00: I couldn't work out what I had written down. But it was really good.
• 2:39
  SPEAKER_00: Whatever you said was really good.
• 2:40
  SPEAKER_00: I remember that.
• 2:43
  SPEAKER_02: Maybe we'll start with that because I've got so much to say.
• 2:51
  SPEAKER_02: You know, Lambda being annoying with a new syllabus is the first thing I have to say.
• 2:56
  SPEAKER_02: And the second thing I have to say is, oh, well, what are we going to do?
• 3:01
  SPEAKER_02: We just have to come up with a solution to the problem.
• 3:03
  SPEAKER_02: Okay.
• 3:05
  SPEAKER_02: Claire, before I complain about our examining body, do you have anything you'd like to say?
• 3:13
  SPEAKER_01: You're muted. Yeah, hello. Can you hear me now? Here we go.
• 3:16
  SPEAKER_01: Yes, I have taught it.
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  SPEAKER_01: I taught it for years.
• 3:18
  SPEAKER_01: I haven't taught it probably for about...
• 3:23
  SPEAKER_01: Certainly, maybe five years.
• 3:26
  SPEAKER_01: I haven't taught it for five years, but I did teach it for years.
• 3:29
  SPEAKER_01: And I was afraid of it for a while, and then I wasn't.
• 3:36
  SPEAKER_01: Answering that question, and I can't remember it off the top of my head, Kate,
• 3:39
  SPEAKER_01: but there was a brilliant metrical pause poem that I used to use as an example.
• 3:44
  SPEAKER_01: And if in a minute I might rush upstairs to get my books,
• 3:47
  SPEAKER_01: That I can use and give you this brilliant metrical pause as an example
• 3:51
  SPEAKER_01: that you can give them to learn and then they can use that as the example to give
• 3:55
  SPEAKER_01: in the exam.
• 3:57
  SPEAKER_01: And I found emotional pauses really useful and they often come in the prose as well.
• 4:01
  SPEAKER_01: There would always be a really nice emotional pause in the prose.
• 4:04
  SPEAKER_01: And sometimes you had to kind of, I don't know if you found this Gabi,
• 4:07
  SPEAKER_01: you have to kind of sort of shoehorn or kind of elbow an emotional pause
• 4:11
  SPEAKER_01: in sometimes.
• 4:13
  SPEAKER_02: I would say with emotional pauses If there isn't, yes,
• 4:17
  SPEAKER_02: definitely from prose way more than from poetry.
• 4:23
  SPEAKER_02: And I would say if there isn't one that is actually in your prose,
• 4:29
  SPEAKER_02: you can either kind of, you can say to the examiner, there isn't an emotional,
• 4:34
  SPEAKER_02: I didn't use an emotional pause in this piece of prose.
• 4:36
  SPEAKER_02: It didn't feel appropriate.
• 4:38
  SPEAKER_02: But we could imagine that at this point, this character is very angry or,
• 4:44
  SPEAKER_02: And if they were, this is what it might sound like.
• 4:47
  SPEAKER_02: Or they just have a very simple sentence that doesn't come from their pieces
• 4:53
  SPEAKER_02: that they can just use as their stock example.
• 4:56
  SPEAKER_01: And I don't know if that's changed, but in the last, you know,
• 5:00
  SPEAKER_01: because I haven't taught it for a while, but they never seem to mind.
• 5:03
  SPEAKER_01: As long as you could name the book and the publisher or the author,
• 5:06
  SPEAKER_01: as long as you could name... You don't even need to do that.
• 5:08
  SPEAKER_02: It doesn't even need to be in a published book.
• 5:11
  SPEAKER_02: So the reason I say find examples in your pieces is
• 5:16
  SPEAKER_02: because you have those clean copies there in the exam room with you.
• 5:19
  SPEAKER_02: So if there is a caesural pause in your piece,
• 5:23
  SPEAKER_02: or there will obviously be a sense group and a sense pause and things like
• 5:27
  SPEAKER_02: that because they're in everything, then find