This document discusses posture, eye contact, and the physical message in presentations. It emphasizes that physical presentation skills are an important part of communicating effectively with an audience. Maintaining good posture and making eye contact with viewers helps convey confidence and enthusiasm. Negative habits like fidgeting can undermine a speaker's credibility. The document provides tips for using physical skills like maintaining eye contact to gauge audience understanding and engaging them. It also describes an activity where students create an informative speech using visual aids to practice their physical presentation skills.

1. Posture and Eye Contact
International Marketing Presentation Skills
Michelle Li
2017

2. 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

3. Read the quotes

4. 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.

5. Physical message pairwork

6. Posture and Eye Contact
 used to indicate our readiness to do
something

7. 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

8. Posture and Eye contact checklist
 Set your feet
 Set your hands
 Eye contact
 Presentation voice

9.  Good morning, my name is _____________.

10. 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?

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

12. 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.

13. 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.

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

15. Speech Preparation
 The Four Ps
 Plan
 Prepare
 Practice
 Perform

16. 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.

17. 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.

18. 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)

19. 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.)