PEMANTAPAN SIDANG

1. PEMANTAPAN SIDANG SPEAKING FOR ACADEMIC PURPOSES

2. PRESENTING IN ENGLISH: HOW TO GIVE SUCCESSFUL PRESENTATIONS Adopted from Mark Powel’s Book: Presenting in English, 2002

3. Outline of the presentation • Strategies for becoming a better public speaker • Strategies for developing stronger presentations • Strategies for calming nerves • Structures of the presentation (Opening, Content, Ending)

4. Six Strategies You Can Use • Planning • Practice • Engaging your audience • Body Language • Thinking Positively • Calming Nerves

5. Planning • Structure what you want to say • Outlines help! • Strong opening • Attention grabbers • Humor • Closing remarks • Planning helps you think on your feet, especially during unpredictable Q & A • Make it your own!

6. Practice • Practice, practice, practice! • In front of family • PTA meetings • Video yourself • Things to look for • Verbal stalls • Are you smiling? • Gestures • How did you handle interruptions?

7. Engaging your Audience • Ask leading questions • Encourage your audience to participate • Make eye contact • Pay attention to how you are speaking • Do Not READ to your audience

8. Body Language Research has shown that up to 94% of communication is non-verbal.

9. Body Language • Stand up straight • Refrain from crossing your arms • Avoid gestures that feel unnatural

10. “ The way you overcome fear and shyness is to become so wrapped up in something that you forget to be afraid” Lady Bird Johnson

11. Calming Nerves • Know your audience • Know your material • Structure your presentation • Calm yourself from the inside

12. Know your Audience • Ask before hand who will be your audience? • What do they already know about your topic? • Are they experts? • Will your information be brand new? • Is there a meeting before/after? What topics will be covered? Tip: Greet people at the door

13. Know Your Material • Read the modules! • Do your own research about the topic • The audience is looking at you as the “Expert” • Do not try to cover everything you know about the topic • Select points that are relevant for this audience

14. Structure your Presentation • Key phrases on index cards or Power point • Avoid Memorizing what you want to say • Create natural breaks within your presentation • Ask a question • Provide an activity

15. Calm yourself from the inside • Practice deep breathing • Drink water • Smile • Use visualization techniques • Speak more slowly than you would in a conversation • Move around during your presentation, this expends nervous energy

16. Remember Nerves are not your enemy and you do not have to fear public speaking!

17. STRUCTURES OF THE PRESENTATION

18. The Opening

19. Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. (On behalf of…, may I welcome you to…) My name’s … I’m responsible for/I’m from … This afternoon I’d like to… discuss… report… and present… If you have any questions you’d like to ask, I’ll be happy to answer them. or Perhaps we can leave any questions you may have until the end of the presentation.

20. Tricks and Tips 1 Use ‘hooks’ – simple techniques for getting the immediate attention of the audience: (1) give them a problem to think about Imagine …………Do you think that’s possible? (2) give them some amazing facts Statistics show that ……………………… (3) give them a story or personal anecdote I remember when …………………………

21. Look at the presentation openings below and identify them as Problems, Amazing Facts or Stories • Did you know how much do Japanese companies spend on entertaining clients in a year? It’s 40 billion dollars. That’s four times than the entire GDP of Bulgaria. You could buy General Motors for the same money. • Suppose your advertising budget was cut by 99% tomorrow. How would you promote your product? • According to the latest study, by 2050 only one in every four people in Western Europe will be going to work. And two will be old age pensioners. • I read in the newspaper that the world’s highest paid executive works for Disney and gets $230 million a year. Now that’s about $2000 a minute! • When I think about creativity, I’m reminded of the man who invented the microwave oven. He spent years messing around with radar transmitters, then notived the chocolate in his pocket was starting to melt.

22. Getting people’s attention • If I could have everybody’s attention. • If we can start. • Perhaps we should begin? • Let’s get started. • I’ve invited you here today to have a look at my findings. • Now let me begin by… Presentation Skills in English 1

23. Welcoming the audience • First of all, let me thank you all for coming here today. • Good morning, ladies and gentlemen. • I am happy / delighted that so many of you could make it today. • I hope you all had a pleasant journey here today. • It’s a pleasure to welcome you today. • It’s good to see you all here. • Ladies and gentlemen, thank you very much for coming along here today. • On behalf of the company, I’d like to welcome you. • Thank you all very much for coming today. • Welcome everyone / to this conference Presentation Skills in English 1

24. Introducing yourself and giving your position / function • My name is … I’m responsible for…I’m in charge of… • For those of you who don’t know me, my name is… • As you know, I’m in charge of public relations in this company. • Let me introduce myself, I’m … / my name is … and I work / study… • Let me just start by introducing myself. • As some of you know, I am the… • I’m here in my function as the head of… • I’d like to introduce my colleague… Presentation Skills in English 1

25. Introducing your presentation / topic and stating your purpose (1) • I would like to take this opportunity to talk to you about… • I’ll be proposing… • I’ll outline… • I’m delighted to be here today to tell you about… • I’m going to talk about… • In today’s presentation I’d like to … show you…/ explain to you how to… • In today’s presentation I’m hoping to … give you an update on / give you an overview of… • In today’s presentation I’m planning to…look at… / explain … MGiordano-PresentationSkills in English 1

26. Introducing your presentation / topic and stating your purpose (2) • My objective / aim / purpose / goal is to … determine how… • The purpose of my presentation today is to… • This evening, I’d like to report on my study about… • This morning I want to explain / I’d like to present our new… • Today I am here to talk to you about… • What I want to do this morning is tell you about…/ to show you… • What I’d like to do this morning is present the results of my study… MGiordano-PresentationSkills in English 1

27. THE CONTENT

28. Be like HAMBURGER • An introduction • The main body • The conclusion the hamburger method Presentation Skills in English 1

29. Tricks and Tips #2How to Use Visual Aids Expressions to introduce and explain your visuals • Take a look at this • Let’s have a look at this • I’d like you to look at this. • Here we can see …. • The….. represents ….. . And the …. represents …. . • Let’s look at …. in more detail. As you can see,…. • I’d also like to draw your attention to ….... .

30. What verbs do you use to talk about the following change and development? increase rise decrease fall plunge slump shoot up take off fluctuate recover pick up remain steady level off

31. Let’s DO it!! (PRACTICE 1)

32. Write out the following sentence fragments in the correct order to make a complete presentation extract. • see, it’s a fairly typical growth • Have a look at this graph. As you can • stages of its development. The vertical axis • and the horizontal • shows turnover in millions of dollars • curve for a young company in the early • axis represents the years 2001 to 2005 2 Have a look at this graph. As you can see, it’s a fairly typical growth curve for a young company in the early stages of its development. The vertical axis shows turnover in millions of dollars and the horizontal axis represents the years 2001 to 2005 1 6 3 5 4 7

33. SOUNDS ELEMENTS

34. C. How to Develop Your Public Speaking Style to Impress and Influence Your Audience (1) • Clear articulation • Pausing in the right places • Pitch Control: • a dramatic rise in your voice creates anticipation and suspense • a sharp fall gives weight and finality to what you have just said. • keeping your voice up tells the audience that you are in the middle of saying something and must not be interrupted. • letting your voice drop lets them know you have completed what you wanted to say

35. Which of the following chunked statements don’t work? 1. a. The person who never made a mistake… never made anything. b. The person…who never made a mistake…never…made…anything. c. The person who…never made a…mistake…never…made anything. 2. a. Big companies…are small companies…that succeded. b. Big companies…are…small companies that…succeded. c. Big companies…are small companies that succeded. 3. a. Hard work never killed anybody,…but worrying about it did. b. Hard…work…never…killed…anybody,…but worrying about it did. c. Hard work never…killed anybody,…but worrying…about it did.

36. Pratice your articulation, pausing, and pitch control by reading the following presentation extract. The world’s most popular drink is water. You probably knew that already. After all, it’s a basic requirement of life on earth. But, did you know that the world’s second most popular drink is Coke? And that the human race drinks six hundred million Cokes a day? Now, let’s just put that into some kind of perspective. It means that every week people drink enough Coke to fill the World Trade Center.

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