This Powerpoint could be used to teach leaners how to exploit visual aids effectively in presentations.

1. UNIT 4: VISUALAIDS

2. UNIT 4: VISUALAIDS
OBJECTIVES:
• Understand the process of preparing visual
aids for presentations.
•Learn techniques for describing visuals
effectively.
•Recognize strategies for capturing
audience attention.
•Acquire useful language for presenting
with visual aids.

3. Warm-up:
Effective PPT Presentation
•You are going to see some slides
•Find the problems in each slide and
suggest some ways to improve them

4. 1- Using Power Point
• Used wisely, PowerPoint and similar programs can be
an effective tool to help audiences remember your
message, while allowing you to prove, reinforce, and
support your claims.
• Used unwisely, PowerPoint becomes a distraction that
upstages the presenter and buries the message. With its
tumbling, whooshing, flying, singing and screeching
graphics, PowerPoint can take on a life of its own.
• All these bells and whistles can disconnect the slides
from the presenter and destroy the reason for using
them in the first place--to provide an audience with at-
a-glance comprehension to support the presentation.

5. • Semantics can be defined as:The study of meanings
• A number of fundamental questions arise:
(1).What is meaning?
(2).What is it for an expression to have meaning?
(3). Meaning of what?
(4). How can we approach meaning?
3- The scope and goal of semantics

6. 4- The scope and goal of
semantics
◼ Semantics can be defined as:
◼ The study of meanings, but a
number of fundamental questions
arise:
• (1). What is meaning?
• (2). What is it for an expression to have
meaning?
• (3). Meaning of what?
• (4). How can we approach meaning?

7. 1. The acquisition of new meaning by
existing words
- Based on the occurrence of a
relationship between the old and new
meanings
2. Either the denotation or connotation
meaning within ONE word undergoes
some changes
5-Word meaning

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Consumption of fastfood in Eden city
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9. Visual Aids: Definition and Meaning
•Visual aids are visual materials, such as
pictures, charts, and diagrams, that help
people understand and remember
information shared in an oral presentation.

10. What are some common types of
visual aids?
•Photographs/Pictures/Drawings
•Infographics
•Diagrams
•Videos
•Data charts and graphs such as pie
charts and bar charts

16. Why Do Presenters Use
Presentation Aids?
• Help an audience understand and remember
information in a presentation
• Keep an audience interested in the
presentation
• Inspire an audience to act on a cause or buy a
product
• Clarify the organization of the presentation
• Help the speaker remember the points to
make in the presentation
• Make a presentation more persuasive

17. ✓THE RULE OF SIX
• a maximum of six lines per slide
• a maximum of six words per line
✓Selection of keywords or phrases
✓Use simple, bold lettering; such as for an Arial
font at least 24 point bold
Using Power Point

18. Work in
pairs.
Show
what is
wrong
with the
following
visual and
then
improve
it.
Using Power Point

19. Suggested answer.
Using Power Point

20. To use visual aids effectively, remember to:
• Create visual aids that parallel the order of points in
a presentation.
• Use visual aids that are appropriate for the subject
of the presentation and the audience.
• Use visual aids that are simple and easy for the
audience to understand.
• Make visual aids large enough to be seen by the
audience.
Keep visual aids attractive through features such as
color and clarity.
• Practice with technology, pointing out key parts of
the visual aids, and introducing background
information about visual aids will help ensure that
they are incorporated smoothly into a presentation.

21. DESCRIBINGVISUALS (textbook)

22. FOCUSING ONYOUR
AUDIENCE’S ATTENTION
(textbook)

23. HOMEWORK
• Work in groups
• Pick up one of the following topics.
• Prepare a presentation with some slides.
• Preparation time: 15-20 mins
• Presentation time: 2-3 mins

24. Topics
1- Advantages and disadvantages of
living in a big city
2- Some factors affecting students’
choices of careers
3- Advantages and disadvantages of
fast-food
4- Benefits of reading books
5- How to keep a friend

25. Topics
1- Advantages and
disadvantages of living
in a big city
+ Advantages:
• chances to get good jobs
• better life quality
• Updated information
+ Disadvantages
• pollution
• traffic jam

26. Topics
2- Some factors affecting students’
choices of careers
• Family
• Friends
• Teachers
• Society’s needs
• Own interests

27. Topics
3- Advantages and
disadvantages of fast-food
+ Advantages
• Convenient
• Cheap
• Tasty
+ Disadvantages
• High calories
• Not nutritious enough

28. Topics
4- Benefits of reading books
• Broaden knowledge
• Relax
5- How to keep a friend
• Share things
• Keep in touch
• Help them when they need help
• Listen to him/her

29. References
• Nguyen Thi Thu Trang & Dang Thu Trang (2007)
Slides for Using visual aids
• Tran, A. & Nguyen, H. (2007) Slides for Using your
voice
• Part IV; Study skills course books
• Presentation Skills for FORD VN, AITCV

30. Thank you very much for
your cooperation!