Spoken language gcse help

I had no idea spoken language counted as part of your GCSEs. My teacher has asked us to prepare a speech on a topic (preferably funny she said) but I have no interests I feel passionately enough to speak about in front of my class.
She hasn't specified when it's taking place but it's sometime soon maybe a few weeks?
I'd feel fine speaking in front of my teacher 1 on 1 but as a class it feels too scary.
AQA EXAMBOARD
Any topic ideas and tips??

Hi, year 11 here, I did my speech back in September! Basically, it does count as a qualification, but does not go towards your english language gcse if that makes sense. For topics, I get what you mean- it took me a while to choose one. It honestly could be about absolutely anything, serious or not, you just will need to be able to memorise a 3-7 minute speech. Also with speaking infront of people, I relate a lot. You will usually be in a small group of 4-5, at my school we were allowed to choose our groups, it’s rare to have to perform infront of a class. However, it is possible to request to do it one-on-one, I know some who did that. Any questions feel free to ask!!

yea when i did my GCSE this year we where also told like out of the blue that we have like a English speech that we are marked on coming up and everyone was scared and stuff including me, because it was being graded and i am pretty sure 95 % of the time you have to do the speech on your own as they get marked by your teacher, and they record you while doing it and then the aqa exam board people moderate the videos by checking them to make sure everyone got a fair grade ( the grading is fail, pass, merit, distinction) don't worry about it too much i was really worried about mine until i did it because i hated talking in front everyone but it turned out quite easy, as i did like a small PowerPoint presentation and stuff to make it easier for me and not just read off a script because if you just look down and keep reading off a script you wont get like a distinction. And the topic can be on literally anything like i did it on my favourite sport about F1, the thing i talked about was " is f1 really a sport and are the drivers considered athletes ?" and then your teacher will ask you like a few questions at the end about your topic and you need to try and answer them as best as you can. And then at the end of the year when you get your GCSE grade slip with all your grades next to your aqa english language grade it will say either F,P,M,D based on how you did.

I had no idea spoken language counted as part of your GCSEs. My teacher has asked us to prepare a speech on a topic (preferably funny she said) but I have no interests I feel passionately enough to speak about in front of my class.
She hasn't specified when it's taking place but it's sometime soon maybe a few weeks?
I'd feel fine speaking in front of my teacher 1 on 1 but as a class it feels too scary.
AQA EXAMBOARD
Any topic ideas and tips??

Heya! So about the funny thing, if you speak well about an issue that is serious you can get a distinction - and you don’t have to be passionate before hand, for example I researched the Hiroshima bombing for mine.
The MOST IMPORTANT THING is confidence and not reading from a script. Your speech can be rubbish but if you speak well you can achieve top grades. Here’s some tips:

DEFINITELY GOING TO MEMORISE IT NOW THANK YOU. You're too brave going first I don't think I could do it 😭 but I'll try for sure. Good point about having the teacher's sympathy and not having anything to compare it to.

but watch out the exam board people do go through the videos to make sure you get a fair grade!😁