The Right Kind of Language

Public Speaking & Presentation

Week 5 – LanguageFriday, April 2nd, 2010.Professor Hayashi

What are we doing today?

• attendance & prep sheet check• review• language focus• language knowledge

BREAK• practice• mid-term speeches• in-class presentation

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Review• It is SO IMPORTANT to link

your ideas in your speech

• What expressions do you remember from the ‘language focus’ for linking ideas? How do you connect ideas?

Review

• What goes in the introduction?

AG, Credibility, Thesis, Purpose

• What are the do’s and don’ts of a

good presentation? (the golden

checklist!) page 7

Language Focus• Active vs. Passive Forms

3 Tactics to Engage the Audience

• Use personal pronouns

• Refer to the audience

• Use appropriate everyday language

Partner Up!

Page 27 – exercise 3Page 28 – exercise 4, 5

EXERCISE 3:a)We discussed the issue of restructuring.b)The Finance Manager is directing money into the wrong accounts.c)Both companies will sign the agreement later this month.d)I have found it rather unreliable.e)The press reports that shares are due to rise.

Language Focus

Writing For the Ear

Language Knowledge• Everything is better

in pairs, so partner up!

Page 26 – exercise 1

a)spoken

b)written

c)written

d)spoken

Listening!

Calling all

voice actors!

page 26, exercise 2

a)read, distant, prepared, impersonal

b)spoken, distant, prepared, impersonal

c)spoken, human, spontaneous, personal

Practice!• Group A – make a short

presentation on “The Advantages of Reading a Presentation”

• Group B – make a short presentation on “The Disadvantages of Reading a Presentation”