![Training (reader p.4)
• When you give a presentation in your culture, which of the following do you
do? Choose and put in sequence. If any steps are missing add them in
yourself.
[___] Tell a joke. [___] Make a general statement
[___] Refer to visuals. [___] Ask the audience to introduce themselves.
[___] Ask questions. [___] Summarise.
[___] State your objectives. [___] Smile at the audience.
[___] Take your jacket off. [___] Look serious to inspire confidence.
[___] _____________________ [___] _____________________](https://image.slidesharecdn.com/lesson2osakapres-course-120828211121-phpapp01/85/Lesson-2-osaka-pres-course-6-320.jpg)
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- 3. University of Osaka PresentationCourse INTRODUCTION
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- 5. Preparing Presentations • Thereare of course many factors which influence the style of a presentation: – What is the purpose of the presentation? – How many people are in the audience? – How "formal" is the overall situation? etc. • Another significant factor is the country and culture where the presentation is being made.
- 6. Training (reader p.4) • When you give a presentation in your culture, which of the following do you do? Choose and put in sequence. If any steps are missing add them in yourself. [___] Tell a joke. [___] Make a general statement [___] Refer to visuals. [___] Ask the audience to introduce themselves. [___] Ask questions. [___] Summarise. [___] State your objectives. [___] Smile at the audience. [___] Take your jacket off. [___] Look serious to inspire confidence. [___] _____________________ [___] _____________________
- 7. Training (reader p.4) Fromyour own experience of attending presentations, have you noticed any major differences in national styles?
- 8. Giving Presentations Openings, Signposting,and Survival Tactics
- 9. Effective Openings • Thefirst three minutes of a presentation are the most important. • The speaker needs a ‘hook’, a simple technique for getting attention. • A good start makes the speaker feel confident.
- 10. Effective Openings • Threeways of ‘hooking’ your audience: – Give them a problem to think about. – Give them some amazing facts. – Give them a story or a personal anecdote.
- 11. Effective Openings • Problem Technique 1. Suppose …………………………………… How would you …………………………… 2. Have you ever wondered why it is that …..? You have? Well, if I could show you ……… ….. would you be interested? 3. How many people here this morning ……..? Well, imagine ……………………………… ….. Do you think that is possible?
- 12. Effective Openings • Amazing Facts Technique 1. Did you know that ………………………..? 2. According to the latest study, ………..…., 3. Statistics show that ……………………….. 4. I read somewhere the other day that ……
- 13. Effective Openings • Story/ Anecdote Technique 1. You know, ……………………………….. When I think about ………………………. I’m reminded of ………………………….. 2. Have you ever been in a situation where …………….? I remember when ………………………… It turned out ……………………………….
- 14. Training You are goingto watch a presentation about ‘What it takes to do extreme astrophysics’, done by Anil Ananthaswamy. Watch the video and discuss with a partner: – What is the presenters purpose? – What kind of ‘hook’ does he use? – What is the effect of the ‘hook’? – Did the presenter achieve his purpose? – What do you think of the quality of this academic – presentation?
- 15. Training For your topicof your choice, prepare a ‘hook’ that will catch the interest of your audience. You will be asked to present your hook in front of the group. The length should be approximately 2-3 minutes. You will get 20-30 minutes to prepare.
- 16. Signposting • What yousay - the content - is more important than anything else. • Structure helps • When moving to the next point or when changing direction, tell the audience.
- 17. Signposting • Signposts toguide your audience through your presentation: To move on To expand on To digress To go back To recap To conclude To summarize To turn to To elaborate on
- 18. Signposting • Neat, shortsignposts are more effective. • Keep it simple OK. So ……………..
- 19. Survival Tactics • CommonProblems – Getting your facts wrong – Getting the way you say something wrong – Getting the structure of your talk wrong
- 20. Survival Tactics WHAT YOUTHINK WHAT YOU SAY I’ve got my facts wrong. Sorry, what I meant is this ... Too fast! Go back. So, lets just recap on that. I’ve forgotten to say Sorry, I should just something! mention one thing. Too complicated! Make it So, basically, what I’m simple saying is this …
- 21. Survival Tactics WHAT YOUTHINK WHAT YOU SAY I’m talking nonsense. Sorry, perhaps I didn’t make that quite clear. How do I say this in Sorry, what’s the word/ English? expression? Wrong! Try again. Sorry, let me rephrase that. So, just to give you the I’m running out of main points here. time
- 22. Training You are goingto watch a video called ‘Bill Gates: Mosquitos, Malaria and Education’ While watching, write down as many examples of signposting as you can find. Also, briefly comment on the ‘hook’ the presenter used in his presentation and whether it was effective. Discuss what you’ve found with a fellow student.
- 23. How to UseVisual Aids
- 24. How to UseVisual Aids
- 25. How to UseVisual Aids • Introducing Visuals • Commenting on Visuals • Change and Development
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- 27. Introducing Visuals • Visualsare: • Highly memorable • Reduce the amount of talking • Used to speak for you
- 28. Types of Visuals 200.0 150.0 100.0 Graphs 50.0 0 North 1st Qtr 2nd Qtr 3rd Qtr 4th Qtr West East 1st Qtr 2nd Qtr 3rd Qtr 4th Qtr Charts Diagrams
- 29. Types of Visuals 200.0 150.0 100.0 Graphs 50.0 0 North 1st Qtr 2nd Qtr 3rd Qtr 4th Qtr West East 1st Qtr 2nd Qtr 3rd Qtr 4th Qtr Charts Diagrams
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- 31. Introducing Visuals • Ifyou don’t know the different types of visual, simply say: • Have/Take a look at this. • As you can see here … and here … .
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- 33. Commenting on Visuals •Use visuals for situations, developments, events and processes that would take a long time to explain. • Good visuals speak for themselves and require little or no description.
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- 35. Commenting on Visuals •You often need to draw attention to one or more key points before you discuss in more detail: • Highlights Which part of the visual are most significant? • Comments Why? • Interpretations What conclusions can you draw?
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- 37. Commenting on Visuals •Highlighting Important Information • I’d like to look at … • I’d like us to focus our attention on … • I’d like you to think about… • I’d like to point out … • I’d like to draw your attention to …
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- 39. Commenting on Visuals •Commenting on Important Information • As you can see, there … • If you look at it more closely, you’ll … • However you try to explain it, this is very bad news. • Whatever the reason for this, the underlying trend is obvious. • Whichever way you look at it, these are some of our best results ever.
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- 41. Commenting on Visuals InterpretingImportant Information • I’m sure the conclusions to be drawn from this are … • I’m sure the lesson to be learned from this is … • I’m sure the implications of this are clear to all of us. • I’m sure the significance of this is … • I’m sure the message here is …
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- 43. Change and Development •Vocabulary to talk about changes and developments: increase decrease shoot up plunge rise fall take off slump fluctuate recover pick up stabilize level off remain peak hit a low bottom out grow expand shrink decline
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- 45. Change and Development •Vocabulary to talk about the scale or the speed of the change and to comment on its significance: substantial rapid encouraging slight spectacular disastrous moderate disappointing steady enormous a(n) ……………… increase
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- 47. Change and Development •Except in complex technical and scientific presentations, you don’t quote precise figures. • Include important figures in a separate handout or report at the beginning or end of the presentation. • When describing detailed visual aids, mention overall trends and approximate figures.
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- 49. Training 1 • You’regoing to watch Sean Gourley present about ‘The Mathematics of War’ Watch the video and discuss with a partner: – What is your opinion about the the overall quality of his slides? – What struck you about how he talked about his graphs? – Were his graphs effective or not? – Were there any slides that were particularly ineffective?
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- 51. Training (2) You broughta graph with you that is relevant to your field of interest. Team up with a partner and, without showing the graph, describe the the shape of graph to him/her using the language for Change and Development on the screen. You partner is going to recreate your graph based on your instructions. After you have finished, check the graph your partner drew and compare. After you have finished, change roles.
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- 53. Training (3) Youbrought a graph with you that is relevant to your field of interest. Team up with a different partner and describe the graph to him/her. You are allowed to show him/her the graph while you’re commenting on it. Comment on the following: • Which part(s) of the graph is/are most significant? • Why? • What conclusion(s) can you draw?
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- 55. Homework • Prepare apresentation about a topic of your choice. • The presentation should be between 8-10 minutes in length. • Pay special attention to ‘signposting’ • Use a ‘hook’. • Include at least 1 graph. • Your presentation should have a slide presentation • If you use PowerPoint or KeyNote, please put it on a USB drive.