We also focus on some aspects on the delivery stage. Most tips on effective presentations emphasize: showing a relaxed attitude, establishing a strong link with your audience, controlling gestures, and adjusting your speech to effectively communicate (voice, prosody, pace, etc.) As for the last aspect, I'd like to share with you Julian Treasure's TED talk on how to speak so that people want to listen.
A last important aspects in delivering presentations is the visual aids to use. Again there are plenty of materials giving you tips and pieces of advice on ow to produce effective visual ais. Although ost concentrate on powerpoint, many of the ideas they convey can be equally effective when using other slideware (such as prezi). Here is Death by Powerpoint, one of the most cited resources on creating great visual aids to support oral presentations.
Death by PowerPoint from Alexei Kapterev
We closed the week by discussing interviews in the media. Although the classification of interviews is usually based on how structured (planned) the questions are, we came to the conclusion that many other elements may lead to variations. For example, the topic, the interviewee, the show, the potential audience are all elements that influence the levels of formality, orality and naturalness in different interviews on the media. Here's one of the interviews we watched in class:
In a final activity we did about this topic, you were distributed in pairs and small groups and assigned a text on a topic. Your task was to write an interview based on the information on the text (or you could say you had to rewrite that information in the form of an interview). We ran out of time, but on Monday we will be seeing this interviews conducted in class.
Following our calendar, we will close the topic of interviews and news on Monday and we will start with songs on Wednesday (or maybe Monday depending on time).
See you next week.
We closed the week by discussing interviews in the media. Although the classification of interviews is usually based on how structured (planned) the questions are, we came to the conclusion that many other elements may lead to variations. For example, the topic, the interviewee, the show, the potential audience are all elements that influence the levels of formality, orality and naturalness in different interviews on the media. Here's one of the interviews we watched in class:
In a final activity we did about this topic, you were distributed in pairs and small groups and assigned a text on a topic. Your task was to write an interview based on the information on the text (or you could say you had to rewrite that information in the form of an interview). We ran out of time, but on Monday we will be seeing this interviews conducted in class.
Following our calendar, we will close the topic of interviews and news on Monday and we will start with songs on Wednesday (or maybe Monday depending on time).
See you next week.
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