ORAL PRESENTATION SKILLS

ORAL PRESENTATION SKILLS
It usually takes more than three weeks to prepare a good improptu speech.
Samuel Clemens

ORAL PRESENTATION
What is an oral presentation?
How to build an oral presentation?
What knowledge and skills are necessary to make a presentation?

Professional communication skills
Communication strategy
Communication structure
Written communication
Electronic communication: e-mail, voice mail, video conferencing
Graphical communication
Oral presentations
Enquiry, listening, dialogue

What is an oral presentation?

HOW TO BUILD A PRESENTATION?
Objectives
Audience
Strategy

OBJECTIVES
"A speech without a specific purpose is like a journey without a destination."
Ralph C. Smedley
to inform/instruct
to persuade
to entertain

AUDIENCE
Specialists
Non-specialists
Supporters
Opponents
!

STRATEGY
SCENARIO
RULE OF 3
COMPONENTS

STRATEGY: SCENARIO
SCIENTIFIC TEXT PATTERNS
DESCRIPTION/DEFINITON
SEQUENCE / PROCESS
CLASSIFICATION
COMPARISON/CONTRAST
CAUSE/EFFECT
PROBLEM/SOLUTION

PRACTICE
There are three major types of rock: igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic. When a rock crystallizes from melt (magma and/or lava), it is an igneous rock. This rock can be weathered and eroded, and then redeposited and lithified into a sedimentary rock, or be turned into a metamorphic rock due to heat and pressure that change the mineral content of the rock and give it a characteristic fabric. The sedimentary rock can then be subsequently turned into a metamorphic rock due to heat and pressure, and the metamorphic rock can be weathered, eroded, deposited, and lithified, becoming a sedimentary rock. Sedimentary rock may also be re-eroded and redeposited, and metamorphic rock may also undergo additional metamorphism. All three types of rocks may be re-melted; when this happens, a new magma is formed, from which an igneous rock may once again crystallize.
Wikipedia

PRACTICE
A petroleum reservoir, or oil and gas reservoir, is a subsurface pool of hydrocarbons contained in porous or fractured rock formations. The naturally occurring hydrocarbons, such as crude oil or natural gas, are trapped by overlying rock formations with lower permeability. Reservoirs are found using hydrocarbon exploration methods.
Wikipedia

STRATEGY: RULE OF THREE
we remember 3
parts to presentation 3
use lists of 3

Rule of three
VENI, VIDI, VICI - JULIUS CAESAR
"FRIENDS, ROMANS, COUNTRYMEN LEND ME YOUR EARS" - WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
"OUR PRIORITIES ARE EDUCATION, EDUCATION, EDUCATION" - TONY BLAIR/V. LENIN
A MARS A DAY HELPS YOU TO WORK, REST AND PLAY - ADVERTISING SLOGAN
STOP, LOOK AND LISTEN - PUBLIC SAFETY ANNOUNCEMENT
!

STRATEGY:
PRESENTATION COMPONENTS

Introducing yourself
Allow me to introduce myself.
I am Robert Jones
… and I work for BP;
…and I’m the Managing Director of JSC Lukoil
…and I represent JSC Lukoil

STATEMENT OF TOPIC & STRUCTURE
I want to talk to you this afternoon about Peak Oil. My presentation will be in 3 main parts.

The audience must know exactly
Who you are
Where you are from
What you are going to talk about
Why you are going to talk about it
http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/business/talkingbusiness/unit3presentations/1opening.shtml

NECESSARY
KNOWLEDGE & SKILLS
COMPRESS TEXT into:
points
graphs
tables
COMMENT on:
points
graphs
tables
Align phrases
Make transitions Summarize
Hands free
Keep eye-contact
Interact

ORAL PRESENTATION
What is an oral presentation?
How to build an oral presentation?
What knowledge and skills are necessary to make a presentation?

http://www.gubkin.ru/faculty/humanities/chairs_and_departments/foreign_language/magisters.php

ORAL PRESENTATION RULES
Time limit
Attribute all slides
Rule of 3
Recap each key point
Present all figures on screen
Comment on each stated point
Do not comment on unstated points
Align phrases
Build logical transitions

Telling them what you are going to talk about

MOVING
backwards forward & sideways
To move on to my next point…
Going back to my previous point…
Let’s turn to a different point.
To return to my main point…
I’d like to digress from my plan and…
To sum up/ summarize, conclude….

RULES FOR CONNECTORS
1. Expressing different ideas

RULES FOR CONNECTORS
2. showing a consequence

RULES FOR CONNECTORS
3. adding arguments
Not only…but also
Moreover…
In addition to this…