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”