Presentation: Welsh Podcast Script

Slide 1 of 7 · Settling starter · Welsh · Year 9

5 minutes

Sgript podlediad Cymraeg: a 3-minute podcast script in Welsh

Today you write the script for a 3-minute podcast in Welsh for pupils in your own year. Nothing is recorded and nothing is published. The script is the part that decides whether a podcast is listenable.

While the register is called: write your name, class and date on your worksheet, then read the 2 boxes: Y fathemateg amseru (the timing maths) and Confensiynau sgript (script conventions).

Starter question: A clear podcast is read at about 2 words per second. How many words fit in 50 seconds?

DCF: Producing → Creating digital content No computers, no recording · the script is the work

Slide 2 of 7 · Today’s brief and key words · Welsh · Year 9

3 minutes

Your brief: a script that is ready to record

You will choose 1 topic, fill in a running order whose seconds add up to 180, write the full script with 3 open questions for a guest, read it aloud against the clock, then cut the 2 places where it runs over.

Y rhediad

The running order: 5 segments, each with a time, its seconds and a word target (seconds × 2).

CYFLWYNYDD: / GWESTAI:

Presenter and guest. The speaker’s name goes in CAPITALS followed by a colon before every line.

[SAIN: ...]

A sound cue in square brackets, such as [SAIN: cerddoriaeth agoriadol, 5 eiliad, yn pylu o dan y llais]. Voice directions go in round brackets: (yn arafach), (gwenu).

LNF: Literacy → Writing → Planning and organising for different purposes, audiences and context Write as you speak: short sentences, direct questions

Slide 3 of 7 · Cam 1 and Cam 2: topic and running order · Welsh · Year 9

10 minutes

Cam 1 & Cam 2: choose a topic, then plan 180 seconds

Cam 1: circle 1 topic: phones banned in the school day; why Eisteddfod yr Urdd matters to young people; using Welsh online every day; should every pupil walk or cycle to school; or your own.

Cam 2: fill in the running order. Seconds must add to 180; words are about seconds × 2. Leave time for music and for the guest’s answers.

Segment	Amser	Eiliadau	Targed geiriau	Beth sy’n digwydd
Cerddoriaeth a chroeso	0:00 to 0:23	23	46	Opening music 5 seconds, name the show and the question
Eitem 1: y ffigurau	0:23 to 1:17	54	108	The survey figures

Cam 1 and Cam 2 on your worksheet · 10 minutes Check the adding before you write a word

Supply teacher script (no subject knowledge needed)

Say aloud: “10 minutes. Circle one topic. Then fill in the running order table. The first two rows of the model are on the board. Your seconds column must total 180 and each word target must be the seconds times 2. Check the adding before you move on.”

Quick check: the model running order is 23 + 54 + 45 + 49 + 9 = 180 seconds, with word targets 46, 108, 90, 67 and 16 (327 words). The Cyfweliad segment is 49 seconds but only 67 presenter words, because 15 seconds are left for the guest’s answers; the Diweddglo is 8 seconds of speech plus 1 second of closing music. A pupil whose seconds do not total 180 has not finished Cam 2.

Walk the room: you need no Welsh for this. Add up each pupil’s seconds column and check each word target is roughly double its seconds. 300 words for a 20-second introduction means the plan has failed whatever the Welsh is like.

Slide 4 of 7 · Cam 3: write the script · Welsh · Year 9

22 minutes

Cam 3: write the full script, in silence

Write every spoken word in Welsh. Use the conventions: speaker name in CAPITALS and a colon, sound cues in [square brackets], voice directions in (round brackets), the segment time on the left. Short sentences, direct questions, no long sub-clauses. Continue on lined paper if you need to.

[SAIN: cerddoriaeth agoriadol, 5 eiliad, yn pylu o dan y llais]

CYFLWYNYDD (0:00 to 0:23): Helô a chroeso i Sain y Sied, podlediad Blwyddyn 9 Ysgol Glan Taf. Heddiw rydym yn gofyn un cwestiwn: a ddylai ffonau symudol gael eu gwahardd yn ystod y dydd yn yr ysgol? Cawn ganlyniadau ein harolwg ein hunain, a barn Pennaeth Blwyddyn. Arhoswch gyda ni.

46 words · 23 seconds. The opening names the show, the question and what is coming.

Cam 3 on your worksheet · 22 minutes, in silence Count the words of each segment as you finish it

Supply teacher script (no subject knowledge needed)

Say aloud: “22 minutes in silence to write the script. The model opening is on the board: a sound cue, then the presenter’s name in capitals with the segment time, then 46 words for 23 seconds. Write your own, in Welsh, segment by segment, and count the words of each segment against the target in your running order. Leave a line for the guest with GWESTAI and a note of how many seconds their answers get.”

Quick check: a secure script has, like the model, a [SAIN: ...] cue at the start and the end, CYFLWYNYDD: before every presenter line with its time on the left, GWESTAI: at least once, a voice direction such as (saib i’r ateb), and an ending that says when the next episode is (the model says “Byddwn yn ôl mewn pythefnos”, we will be back in a fortnight).

Walk the room: you cannot mark the Welsh, so check the shape: capitals and colons, square and round brackets, times on the left, and word counts near the targets. The worksheet gives 25 minutes for Cam 3 and Cam 4 together; the 3 guest questions are on the next slide.

Slide 5 of 7 · Cam 4 and Cam 5: questions, then the clock test · Welsh · Year 9

6 minutes

Cam 4 & Cam 5: 3 open questions, then read it against the clock

Cam 4 (3 min): write your 3 questions for the guest in the table. Open questions only: the guest must need more than 1 word to answer.

Cam 5 (3 min): read your whole script aloud, quietly, while watching the clock. Record your total words, the real time it took, and the 2 places where you must cut words.

Model question	Why it is open
1. Beth yn union sy’n digwydd i ffôn sy’n canu mewn gwers ar hyn o bryd?	“What exactly happens...” needs an explanation, not yes or no.
2. Petai’r ysgol yn cloi ffonau bob bore, pwy fyddai’n gyfrifol amdanynt?	“Who would be responsible...” asks for a reasoned answer.

Cam 4 and Cam 5 on your worksheet · 6 minutes About 2 words per second: faster and the listener loses the meaning

Supply teacher script (no subject knowledge needed)

Say aloud: “3 minutes for your 3 guest questions. Two model questions are on the board. A question the guest could answer with ie or na is closed and does not count. Then 3 minutes for the clock test: read your script aloud under your breath while watching the clock, and fill in the 3 boxes in Cam 5.”

Quick check: the model’s third question is “Beth fyddai’n rhaid i ni ei ddangos i chi er mwyn i chi newid y rheol?” (what would we have to show you for you to change the rule), which asks for evidence. A script of about 327 words should read in about 164 seconds of speech, leaving 16 seconds for the music and the guest. If a pupil’s reading time passes 3:00, they must name 2 places to cut.

Walk the room: the worksheet’s final 5 minutes, cutting the 2 over-long parts and marking where, runs into the self check on the next slide. Pupils cross out words rather than rewriting.

Slide 6 of 7 · Self and partner check · Welsh · Year 9

2 minutes

Meini prawf llwyddiant: cut the 2 places that run over

Cross out words in the 2 places you marked in Cam 5. Then tick each success criterion your script meets and correct 1 thing.

My script is in correct Welsh, with correct mutations and accents (â, ê, î, ô, û, ŵ, ŷ).
The seconds add up to 180, and each segment’s word count is about its seconds × 2.
I use script conventions: speaker name, sound cues in square brackets, and voice directions.
My questions are open, and the programme ends by saying when the next one is.
I write for the ear: short sentences, proved by reading the script aloud.

2 minutes · self check Finished early? Write the 40-word episode description in Welsh and English

Slide 7 of 7 · Plenary review · Welsh · Year 9

2 minutes

Quick-check answers before handing in

Check your numbers before your worksheets are collected.

Question	Correct answer
What must the seconds column of your running order add up to?	180 seconds (3:00), checked before writing a word.
How many words should a 54-second segment contain?	About 108 words: seconds × 2.
How is a sound cue written in a script?	In square brackets, for example [SAIN: cerddoriaeth agoriadol, 5 eiliad, yn pylu o dan y llais].

Check your name and class are on your worksheet Staple your lined paper to the worksheet