1. Do Now: Working with your partner, decide where would you place the pauses in the following poem? Shall I compare thee to a Summer's day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate; Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And Summer's lease hath all too short a date; Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines, And often is his gold complexion dimm'd; And every fair from fair declines, By chance or nature's changing course untrimm'd; But thy eternal Summer will not fade Nor lose possession of that fair thou owest; Nor shall Death brag thou wanderest in his shade, When in eternal lines to time thou growest; So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see, So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.

2. Aim: How do you use rate and pause to enhance your delivery? Rate the speed you say the words between the pauses/silences the speed you say the words between the pauses/silences Audiences cannot listen as rapidly as a performer can speak. Audiences cannot listen as rapidly as a performer can speak. By manipulating rate, you can express subtle variety. By manipulating rate, you can express subtle variety. Pause The silence of your speech The silence of your speech Planned pauses not panic pauses! Planned pauses not panic pauses! Punctuated pauses Punctuated pauses Phrasal pauses—clarifies units of thought Phrasal pauses—clarifies units of thought Don’t be afraid to hold a pause. Don’t be afraid to hold a pause.

3. Aim: How do you use rate and pause to enhance your delivery? A pause gives you… time to breathe time to breathe time to consider what it is you're going to say next time to consider what it is you're going to say next time to receive, and digest the feedback you're getting from your audience time to receive, and digest the feedback you're getting from your audience A pause gives the audience… time to breathe time to breathe time to let the images or ideas you've given them 'flower' in their minds time to let the images or ideas you've given them 'flower' in their minds time to summarize what's been said time to summarize what's been said time to prepare for what may be coming next time to prepare for what may be coming next

4. Aim: How do you use rate and pause to enhance your delivery? For a full stop or period, count 1,2 For a full stop or period, count 1,2 For a comma, count 1 For a comma, count 1 For a semi-colon, count 1 For a semi-colon, count 1 For a colon, count 1,2 For a colon, count 1,2 Between the end of one paragraph and the start of count 1, 2, 3 Between the end of one paragraph and the start of count 1, 2, 3

5. Aim: How do you use rate and pause to enhance your delivery? Shall I compare thee to a Summer's day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate; Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And Summer's lease hath all too short a date; Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines, And often is his gold complexion dimm'd; And every fair from fair declines, By chance or nature's changing course untrimm'd; But thy eternal Summer will not fade Nor lose possession of that fair thou owest; Nor shall Death brag thou wanderest in his shade, When in eternal lines to time thou growest; So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see, So long lives this, and this gives life to thee. Shall I compare thee to a Summer's day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate; Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And Summer's lease hath all too short a date; Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines, And often is his gold complexion dimm'd; And every fair from fair declines, By chance or nature's changing course untrimm'd; But thy eternal Summer will not fade Nor lose possession of that fair thou owest; Nor shall Death brag thou wanderest in his shade, When in eternal lines to time thou growest; So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see, So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.

6. Aim: How do you use rate and pause to enhance your delivery? Remember silence is a gift you give to yourself and your audience. Used effectively it can speak louder than words. How? In stillness your words flower to their potential. When speak you seed the thought of image. In the pause it grows.