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Learning Beyond the ClassroomBy Anna and Dawn
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Learning Objectives To know the different types of
presentations To know and be able to use appropriate
presentation vocabulary To be able to plan and deliver a
presentation
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Press conference Briefing Demonstration Product launch Lecture Talk Seminar workshop
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Audience – how many? Who they are? How much they know about the subject?
Logistics- the venue and facilities Plan your presentation – content and
structure Write some key notes Visual aids – prepare interesting pictures,
diagrams Rehearse – run through it so that it
becomes familiar
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Nerves ! You will probably feel nervous at the start of your presentation. Try to relax and speak slowly and clearly.
Audience Rapport – Try to engage your audience, be interested in your subject look around and make eye contact.
Body Language – Stand when you deliver your presentation
Voice Quality – Speak with a clear voice and don’t forget to vary your intonation
Visual Aids – use your visual aids confidently Audience Reaction – be prepared to deal with all types
of questions
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Keep your language simple– use words and sentences that you are comfortable with.
Clarity – Active verbs and concrete words are much clearer to understand than passive verbs and abstract concepts. Avoid jargon unless you are sure your audience is familiar with it.
Signalling – indicate when you have completed one point or section in your presentation
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Language Introducing the topic Let me start by I’ll start by First of all, I’ll Starting with I’d like to begin by
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Summarising a section I’ve told you about We’ve looked at That’s all I have to say about
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Language Introducing the next section Let me turn now to Let’s move on to Turning to I’d like now to Next Let’s look now at
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Language Providing Examples For example A good example of this is To illustrate this point
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Language Providing Examples I’ll deal with this later, if I may but for
now I’ll come back to this question later in my
presentation I won’t comment on that now We’ll examine that question in more
detail later on
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Language Summarising Let’s recap, shall we? I’d like to sum up now Let me summarise what I have said Here are some of the key points In conclusion
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Planning – Plan your presentation carefully
Objectives – Think about what you want to achieve.
Audience – know your audience Content- Choose interesting content Approach – “tell them what you are going
to tell them, tell them, then tell them what you told them”
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SKYPE ENGLISH SCHOOL
Learning Beyond the ClassroomBy Anna and Dawn