Posture and Eye Contact International Marketing Presentation Skills Michelle Li Novermber 2016

The Physical Message Close your book and write down definitions or key words associated with each of the following term: Posture Eye Contact Gestures Voice Inflection

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Why is the Physical Message important? A good Physical Message sends a confident, positive, energetic and enthusiastic message to the audience. Physical Message is indeed a means of communicating information, sometimes as quickly and as efficiently as the verbal message. You can use the Physical Message to fall back on if your language skills fail.

Physical message pairwork

Posture and Eye Contact used to indicate our readiness to do something

Negative Messages We all have little nervous habits that we should be aware of and that we should control to become better public speakers. Could be read as distracting the audience uncertainty Lack of knowledge plain fear will damage the credibility of the speaker’s message

Posture and Eye contact checklist Set your feet Set your hands Eye contact Presentation voice

Good morning, my name is _____________.

DVD In Episode 1, Lisa will give an informative speech on her favorite city. Close your book and answer the following questions after the first viewing of the Episode 1: What is the topic of her informative speech? How many points does she have?

DVD Please complete the evaluation form after the second viewing of the Episode 1.

Informative Speech The speech type Give an informative speech is like teaching. Your job is to teach something to the audience. The success of your speech depends on whether the audience learns what you wanted to teach. So you have to be specific.

Informative Speech The speech skill In an informative speech, eye contacts are important. By watching the audience’s faces, you get to know whether they understand what you’re saying. Good when the audience nod in agreement Bad when the audience look puzzled, meaning you need to try to explain more.

Informative Speech The speech preparation Use a quadrant to help you prepare a presentation on the city you recommend visiting.

Speech Preparation The Four Ps Plan Prepare Practice Perform

Your First Try - Plan Get a blank paper. Draw four quadrants. Write our names and the cities you recommend seeing at the top. Look at the example of Lisa. Brainstorm and list at least 5 items to see in your hometown or city of your choice. Circling two items you recommend seeing. Repeat these steps for the other three quadrants.

Your First Try – Prepare Prepare your poster or slides You could use 4 A4 papers to form your 4 quadrants and make your own poster. Or use PowerPoint to prepare your speech visuals.

Your First Try - Practice Do practice the “checklist” from p.12 of your book. When using visuals, please emulate Lisa. She is a good model. She stands parallel to the visual and face the audience. She points to information and then looks at the audience. Please time your speeches. ( 3 minutes for this speech)

Your First Try - Perform Student As are the presenters and use your visuals to perform your speeches. At the timer’s signal, you rotate. Student Bs are listeners and complete the evaluation form for each speech (You do not rotate.)