Oral Presentation Skills (L1: Delivery) Dr Michael Cribb Coventry University <aa6177@coventry.ac.uk>

Contents Resources Task Delivery Examples of delivery Voice Body language Examples of delivery

Resources Handout – Oral Presentation Skills erHelloEveryone https://erhelloeveryone.wordpress.com/ padlet.com/soonah98/M05DEL For general comments and questions

Blog If you would like to write a blog about your experience of Oral Presentations then please email me your text It does not have to be long It does not have to be perfect English It should be from the heart

Task: Culture Differences On Thursday (28th July) we would like you to make a short presentation in groups of three or four. The presentation should be between 5 to 10 minutes long and should relate to one aspect of culture that you have noticed during your stay here in the UK. Identify one aspect of British culture that you have noticed during your stay in the UK and compare and contrast this with the cultural feature in your home country and the country of your partner. You might want to identify the way people dress, their manners, the way they speak, the way they greet each other, etc. Or you may wish to look at other aspects of culture such as sports, entertainment, transport, politics, social culture, etc. The choice is yours but just focus on one aspect.  

Oral Presentation Skills

Voice TRUE OR FALSE? A speaker should put stress on every word A speaker should vary the intonation A speaker should try to speak quickly to show confidence

Er hello everyone today I’d like to talk about global warming

The key point I want to make is that global warming is an issue which affects us all 

My talk will be split into three parts first I will talk about the history second I will talk about the problem and finally I will give my solution

The world’s most popular DRINK is WATER you probably knew that ALREADY after all it’s a basic requirement of life on EARTH but did you know that the world’s second most popular drink is COKE

and that the human race drinks six hundred million cokes a DAY now let’s just put that into some kind of PERSPECTIVE it MEANS that EVERY WEEK of EVERY YEAR people drink enough COKE to fill the Empire STATE building

there’s almost nowhere on the PLANET from MIAMI to MALAWI where the word COKE isn’t instantly RECOGNIZED the brand name ALONE is worth THIRTY BILLION DOLLARS and that’s what makes COKE a GLOBAL MARKETING PHENOMENON   Adapted from: Presenting in English by Mark Powell (Heinle)

Body Language

Which is the most important part of your body?

Eyes are the most important “The eyes are the window to the soul”

Eye contact Look at one person for 5-8 secs Then move to another person Then another…

If you don’t want to look at my eyes, look at my forehead

Facial Expression

What emotions do these faces suggest?

Facial expression Smile Look confident Vary expression to show surprise, emphasis, etc.

Gestures Gestures complement what you say

Steeple Gesture

Gestures you can use

Gestures Should complement your speech Be positive and meaningful Not too many Always come back to rest position (steeple)

Try this

Posture – what do these body postures suggest?

The best posture is Relaxed but alert Don’t lean Not too stiff Practice your golf swing!

Space Use it! Start at home base Move from base to other bases to signify shifts in content Don’t move too much

The baseball analogy

Listen to Martin Bean There is fantastic face to face learning And there is lousy face to face learning, or teaching There is fantastic online distance education And there is lousy online distance education   What should our goal be as we all consider opening ourselves up in digital spaces Quite simply as it always should have been it has to be about great teaching https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vY42NQQZ-Do https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/talk-the-talk/steps/12029/progress

Obama’s Inaugural Speech http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/obama_inauguration/7840646.stm