effective oral presentations
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Joe McVeigh shares ideas for teachers to help students give more effective oral presentations. Handout avTRANSCRIPT
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Effective Oral Presentations
Joe McVeigh
Higher College of TechnologyMuscat, Sultanate of Oman5 March 2012
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Characteristics of good speakers
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What do they want to do that they can’t do?
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• Delivery – language and verbal issues including pronunciation
• Visuals – PowerPoint, etc.
• Nonverbal communication
• Preparation, content, structure clarity
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What do you need to know to help them?
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Controlled to less controlled activities
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Barriers and obstacles
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Preparation
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Writing things down
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Structure and Content
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Structure – direction and narrowing the topic
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Instead of imposing a limited choice and formal prep preparation time on the learner, another way of eliciting a short presentation is to try consciously to identify previous topics in earlier stages of the test. For example, the oral test can begin with a question and answer routine which deliberately asks about hobbies, professional interests, past experiences of different cultures, jobs, etc. Some examples of such probing questions are:
what do you do in your spare time?What kind of books you like reading?What did you do on your last vacation?Do you enjoy traveling? Where to? Why?If you could live anywhere in the world, where would you choose? (Underhil)
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Too much going on
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Variety
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Nonverbal communication
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Gestures
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Enthusiasm
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Reduce barriers between speaker and audience
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Delivery
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Don’t read !
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Word Stress
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Sentence stress and reduced forms
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Basic intonation patterns
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Delivery
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Timing
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Speed of delivery
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Risk-taking
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What are the rest of the students doing?
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Don’t be boring !
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Excellent Good Needs Improvement Comments
Clear Thesis/PurposeOrganizationdensity of information.Relevance to audience.Use of relevant examples, details.Use of transitions.Coherence and clarity.
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Voicevolumespeed of delivery.Tone/level.Accent/pronunciation
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Gestures/Body LanguageHand GesturesBody PositionPostureUse of Stage Space
Handling of Visuals, Objects, etc
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Student feedback
Quickly answer the following questions about the presentation after the presenter hasfinished. Circle the number you think best applies to the speaker. Number five is the highest score. Number one is the lowest. Write any comments on the lines below.
Did the speaker deliver the presentation clearly and confidently? 5 4 3 2 1 _____________________________________________________did the speaker seemed well prepared?Did the speaker move smoothly from idea to idea?Did the speaker use adequate examples and explanations?Speaker use movement and gestures appropriately?Did the speaker make eye contact with the listeners?Did the speaker make good use of supplemental materials?
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Making a mini-presentation with limited preparation time.
Learners can be given a short list of topics. 10 to 15 min. before the oral test, and invited to choose one on which to speak for 2 min. During the test. The subjects will obviously be general, but should be phrased so as to encourage the learner to express his own opinions on specific aspects of the topic. Thus:"do you agree with lower speed limits and the compulsory use of seat belts? Why?"Is a better topic then:"what should be done to improve road safety?"And:"what do you personally think are the best ways to improve contacts between people in different countries?"Is better then:"how can international understanding be improved?"
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Intangibles
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Questions
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Useful resources
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Photo CreditsSome photos from flickr used under a Creative Commons license
• Biking daredevil Martin Terber• Boy with glowing light “The hills are alive”
Small and large buildings Ibrahim Iugaz• Blurred baby on swing Bart Everson• Roller coaster Justin Holzworth• Control key Faramarz Hashemi• Baby birds Robert S Donovan• Question mark Ethan Lofton• Colored thank you “vistamommy”
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You’ll be able to download the handout and other resources at
www.joemcveigh.org