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Speech and Drama - Level 2 - Intermediate

Learning Outcomes

Learners should:

  • demonstrate thorough preparation
  • create a sense of performance and individuality
  • demonstrate confident communication skills
  • demonstrate fluency in sight reading
  • demonstrate a sound knowledge of basic techniques
  • create a sense of believability through performance
  • show creative and imaginative skills through the pieces chosen
 
Grade 4 (15 Minutes)

Marks awarded at this grade include:
Speech: 30 marks

Learners should:

  • Speak from memory one of the following poems:
    • "As I went down the Cat-Walk" Charles Causley
    • "Absent Player" James Berry
    • "The Way Through the Woods" Rudyard Kipling
    • "Looking at Pictures" Jenny Joseph
    • "One Art" Elizabeth Bishop
    • "Crossing the Bar" Alfred, Lord Tennyson (20 marks)
  • Perform from memory one of the following:
    • a speech from As You Like it by William Shakespeare
    • a scene arranged for one character from a play written after 1960
    • a passage of prose taken from any book by Malorie Blackman. Time limit 2 minutes (20 marks)
  • Read at sight a short passage selected by the examiner (15 marks)
  • Discuss with the examiner:
    • the pieces and authors chosen
    • modulation: pitch, pace, pause, inflection, tone colour (quality and quantity), emphasis (15 marks)
 
Grade 5 Intermediate Medal (20 Minutes)

Marks awarded at this grade include:
Speech: 30 marks

Learners should:

  • Speak from memory one of the following poems:
    • "They Call to One Another" George Barker
    • "Ars Poetica" Archibald MacLeish
    • "Romance" W. J. Turner
    • "The Call" Charlotte Mew
    • "Ode (We are the Music Makers)" Arthur Willam Edgar O’Shaughnessy
    • "Grim and Gloomy" James Reeves
  • Perform from memory one of the following:
    • a speech from any history play by William Shakespeare
    • a scene arranged for one character from a play written after 1970
    • a passage of prose taken from any book by Wilkie Collins. Time limit 2 minutes (20 marks)
  • Read at sight a short passage selected by the examiner (15 marks)
  • Discuss with the examiner:
    • the pieces and authors chosen
    • breath support
    • projection
    • resonance (15 marks)