The document outlines a lesson plan for adult EFL/ESL students focused on persuasive speech and editing information for PowerPoint presentations. Students engage in interactive activities to identify main ideas and key details, contributing to the creation of effective slide headers and layouts. By the end of the lesson, students gain practical skills in text dissection and slide design.

1. Course: Communication Skills 004
Topic: “Persuasive Speech”
Students: Adult EFL/ESL
(Saudi Prep Year Program)
Teaching: Editing information for
PowerPoint slides.

2. Teaching: Editing information for
PowerPoint slides.
In this slideshow, students interactively participate
in editing paragraphs for a PowerPoint
presentation.
 They, first, read the paragraph. Using interactive whiteboard,
they participate by underlining what they think are main idea
and key details.
 This is “checked” by animating the same paragraph (re-
printed in green). Further discussion allows them to
contribute ideas for slide “heading” and contents.

3. Teaching: Editing information for
PowerPoint slides.
In this slideshow, students interactively
participate in editing paragraphs for a
PowerPoint presentation.
Finally, students view a sample slide with “header,” “key
words/phrases,” “graphic design” ideas.

5. Reading Sample
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12. Workshop
By the end of this lesson:
 Students have hands-on experience in dissecting a text for key
information (identifying and underlining key points).
 Students have selected appropriate “headers” for the slides
and “key words/phrases.”
 Students have viewed a sample PowerPoint slide layout
including “header,” “key words/phrases,” and “graphic
design.”

13. TEACHING: How to editTeaching: Editing information for
PowerPoint slides.

14. Teaching: Editing information for
PowerPoint slides.
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