English Presentation Skills- Using Visual Aids

1. English Presentation Skills- Using Visual Aids Yu-Hui Tao ytao@nuk.edu.tw 愈忙愈要學英文字串 簡報篇 by Quentin Brand 貝塔語言出版

2. Preparing Visual Aides

3. Two Types of Visual Aides Content • Avoid large volume of diagrams • Simple figures and tables • Spread into different slides if too much information • Large font • Don’t design for the readers to take time to read the slide Structure one or two words big font, filling up the screen bright contrast, high influence easy-to-understand words

4. Two Type of Visual Aides Channel

5. Reading and Listening • At the same time lower your memorizing capability • When the audience are reading the ppt, the capability for absorbing what you are expressing is lowered. • Try to design your ppt as simple as possible without taking time to read

6. Part IV: Using Visual Aides

7. Introduce the Topic (mp3.18) Listen to mp3.18 on pp. 146-158 Don’t read/look at the book in the beginning. Try to shadow the audio clip as much as you can.

8. Introduce the Topic • I ‘d now like youto [Ok, let’s] look at n.p [+wh-clause]. • If you look at here [this (chart/graph/table/slide)], you can see n.p. [+ wh-clause]. • On this slide, we’ve got n.p. [we can see n.p. or wh-clause]. • These statistics show n.p. [+ wh-clause]. • This graph displays n.p. • This (next) chart/table/slide/graph shows us n.p. [wh-clause]. • This slide gives us the figures for [describes] n.p.

9. Practice I • Choose your “introduction” sentence. • Practice with a partner.

10. 2. Highlight Relevant Info. (mp3.19) Listen to mp3.19 on pp. 159-166 Don’t read/look at the book in the beginning. Try to shadow the audio clip as much as you can.

11. Highlight Relevant Information • As you can see + clause. • I’d like you to look at n.p. (which shows n.p.) [wh-clause]. • I’d like to draw your attention to n.p. [to the fact that +clause] • 4. Let me draw your attention to n.p. [the way that +clause]. • 5. Look at the n.p. [the way that + clause| how + clause]. • 7. Notice how/that + clause [n.p. here]. • 8. We can see from the/this graph that + cause [wh-clause]. • 9. If you look here, you can see that + clause[wh –clause].

12. Practice II • Choose your highlighting sentences. • Practice with a partner.

13. 3. Summarize or Explain the Key Point(mp3.20) Listen to mp3.20 on pp. 167-173 Don’t read/look at the book in the beginning. Try to shadow the audio clip as much as you can.

14. Summarize/Explain the Key Point • 1. It is clear from this (chart/graph/table/movement/general movement) that + clause. • Let me elaborate/expand on n.p. • Let me explain why I think this is important. • These figures suggest n.p. [that + clause|wh-clause]. • These statistics show n.p. [that + clause|wh-clause]. • This slide shows that + clause [wh-clause].

15. Practice III • Choose your sentence for summarizing the key point. • Practice with a partner.

16. 4. Move to next slide (mp3.21) Listen to mp3.21 on pp. 174-179 Don’t read/look at the book in the beginning. Try to shadow the audio clip as much as you can.

17. Moving to Next Slide • Going on (now) to n.p.(, which we can see here). • Let’s turn now to n.p.(, which we can see here). • Moving on (to the next slide), + clause. • Turning to the next slide, + clause • Let’s take a look at the next slide. • Looking at the next slide, we can see n.p. [+ wh-clause]. • This next slide describes/shows n.p. [+wh-clause].

18. Practice IV • Choose your sentence for moving to next slide. • Practice with a partner.

19. 5. Examples (mp3.22) Listen to mp3.22 on pp. 180-183 Don’t read/look at the book in the beginning. Try to shadow the audio clip as much as you can.