Five-Week Plan
A week-by-week sequence from purpose and sources to structure, visuals, questioning and a short explanation.
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Year 9 Power of Speech • Oratory
Expository
A five-week unit on explaining clearly. Students learn how exposition works, how to judge sources, how to structure an explanation, how to use examples and analogies, how to translate jargon, how to present data and demonstrate a process, and how to answer questions without losing the thread.
What this packet is. It contains 16 public resources, including this overview. Students move from the purpose of exposition and source evaluation to structure, examples, plain language, visual aids, process demonstration, questioning and ethical accuracy. The model explanations and examples are original, and the success criteria are formative and labelled as such.
Unit outcomes
- Explain the purpose and audience of an expository speech.
- Evaluate sources for authority, accuracy, currency and relevance.
- Structure an explanation with a clear frame, signposted sections and a purposeful close.
- Use examples, analogies and definitions to make an idea understandable.
- Translate jargon into plain language without losing accuracy.
- Present data and visual aids honestly and accessibly.
- Demonstrate a process while speaking clearly and managing equipment.
- Answer audience questions accurately and respond to confusion.
The five-week shape
| Week | Focus |
|---|---|
| Week 1 | What exposition does. Distinguish explanation from argument and narration; map audience knowledge; evaluate a source; record a short baseline explanation. |
| Week 2 | Structure and examples. Build frames and signposts; test examples and analogies; rewrite jargon into plain language. |
| Week 3 | Data, visuals and process. Design an honest graph; describe a visual aloud; demonstrate a simple process with a backup plan. |
| Week 4 | Questions and accuracy. Practise clarifying questions, checking facts and handling uncertainty; rehearse a full explanation. |
| Week 5 | Build and deliver. Draft a short expository speech, rehearse, deliver it and reflect on one change. |
Public resources
Outcomes and Skills
What students learn, how explanation differs from argument and story, and what a strong explanation sounds like.
Open resource →What Exposition Does
How explanation differs from argument and story, and why a clear question is the foundation of every good explanation.
Open resource →Research and Source Quality
Authority, accuracy, currency and relevance: how to judge a source before you put it in a speech.
Open resource →Structure of an Explanation
Frames, mechanisms, signposts and closes: how to organise an explanation a listener can follow once.
Open resource →Examples and Analogy
How to choose examples that clarify, use analogies honestly, and avoid the comparison that explains everything and nothing.
Open resource →Jargon and Plain Language
How to translate specialist language without losing accuracy, and when a technical term is the right word.
Open resource →Visual Aids and Data
Designing honest graphs, describing visuals aloud and using slides that support rather than replace the speaker.
Open resource →Demonstrating a Process
Speaking while doing: how to plan, rehearse and narrate a live demonstration without losing the audience.
Open resource →Questioning and Clarity
How to invite questions, answer them accurately and use confusion as feedback rather than failure.
Open resource →Accuracy and Ethics
Truth, uncertainty, attribution and the responsibility to explain without misleading.
Open resource →Delivering an Explanation
Voice, pace, visuals and audience reading: how to deliver complex material without losing the room.
Open resource →Building an Expository Speech
A complete workshop: question, research, structure, example, visual, rehearsal and delivery.
Open resource →Teacher Notes
Planning, differentiation, sensitive content and classroom protocols for the Expository unit.
Open resource →Sources and Provenance
What is original, what is excluded, and how the packet handles evidence, copyright and attribution.
Open resource →Planning and support
Read the teacher notes for planning, differentiation, sensitive content and participation guidance. The sources and provenance page records what is original, what is excluded and how the packet handles copyright. Differentiation is built into the teacher notes rather than published as a separate student page. The sources and provenance page records what is public, what is linked rather than copied, and what the packet deliberately leaves out.
No assessment instrument. This packet does not publish confidential class briefs, scores, bands, weights, task numbers, due dates or test papers. It is a teaching and formative-feedback resource. Teachers keep their own school instruments offline.
Last reviewed: October 2026. Counts on this page match the public HTML pages in this folder.