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  1. Speaking at an ELT Conference: Top Tips for Successful Presentations

    Staying positive is crucial for confidence. It's important to remember that 99% of the people attending the session want to see you doing well, and they expect you to do well. Bhavna Gupta talks about the ELT community being full of marigolds. These are delightful, orange flowers.

  2. Help Students Develop Effective Presentations

    Rachel highlighted some of the challenges faced by students when presenting in an academic context and puts forward strategies to help equip them with the skills for such a task. Watch Rachel's webinar below to learn more about the topic. Find out more about Academic English with Cambridge. You can watch the previous webinar in the series here.

  3. PDF Improving your Presentation Skills

    Improving your Presentation Skills . Independent Study version . English Language Teaching Centre . University of Edinburgh . Introduction . You don't have to have perfect spoken English to give a very effective presentation. In fact, even native speakers find presenting difficult. There is a lot more to presenting than knowing the

  4. Elt-tutor

    You need presentation skills. This doesn't only mean to be able to use English grammar correctly and it's way more than only knowing a wide range of words linked to your special field. It's about standing up and talking with ease and in a natural way to faceless or serious-looking, unknown faces. It requires preparation, self-control ...

  5. Evolving an approach to presentation skills

    Steven Gershon. Published 23 August 2017. Professional Development Inclusivity. After 20 years lecturing on everything from academic writing to applied linguistics, Steven Gershon knows how to deliver a good presentation. In this two-part series, Steven shares an approach that he's developed over those 20 years for teaching presentation skills.

  6. Student presentations

    Presentations normally have one or more of the following aims: To inform/ raise awareness of an important issue. To persuade people to do something. Form part of an exam, demonstrating public speaking/presentation skills in a first or second language. I set students a task where they answer these questions:

  7. Presentation techniques and introductory activities

    A free Teaching Knowledge Test training course from ELT Concourse. Module 1: Presentation techniques. ELT Concourse: a free training course for TKT: modules 1, 2 and 3: ELT Concourse home; Initial training plus; ... This is a key stage where you explain and exemplify the language or skills point. Presentation can happen in three main ways:

  8. PDF Learning to Learn Lesson Plan: Improving presentation skills

    presentations e.g., language for introducing your presentation; outlining what you are going to say; making the first point; closing, etc. Step 2: Ask learners to choose at least three of the expressions from the exercise to include in their presentations. Give them a few moments to decide how they will integrate them. Step 3:

  9. Presentation Skills Lesson Plans

    Business. In this lesson about business presentations in English, students discuss presentation structures in depth, watch a video with tips on giving presentations, and learn useful words and phrases related to the topic. The lesson is the first of the three-part series of lessons about delivering presentations. Unlimited Plan Show.

  10. Speaking and listening: Giving a presentation

    Listening to an explanation. Practice making points and listen to an audio clip and note down how information is given in a staff induction. Linking your ideas. Think about the different ways to ...

  11. How to plan and present ELT workshops • Oxford TEFL

    Step 1: Think about your specific audience within ELT. Step 2: Do the research for your workshop. Step 3: Organise and evaluate your workshop research. Step 4: Think about the workshop structure. Step 5: Create your workshop or presentation. Step 6: Design your support materials. Step 7: Think about what you will say.

  12. Giving presentations in English

    A practical and humorous guide to preparation, visual aids and delivery. You could use the slide titles to get students brainstorming their own ideas and use the points on each slide for evaluating learners' presentations.

  13. Teaching presentation skills to promote inclusivity

    Step 3 Ask the students to work in the same groups and to write some examples illustrating how the words and phrases may be used in a presentation. Step 4 The groups present their sentences and discuss them all together. Homework: Choose one common topic for all, or ask everybody to go for a topic they personally like.

  14. Presentation skills

    Presentation skills. Structure. Language. Body language. Delivery. Visual aids. Read about presentation structure , language, body language, effective delivery, and visual aids. Presentations are a common part of university life. Although giving a presentation can seem daunting at first, it is actually quite a routine task once you understand ...

  15. Evolving an approach to presentation skills

    This article continues on from Evolving an approaching to presentation skills - Part 1. Adapting a process approach. The process approach was developed in the 1970s in the US, mainly to teach literacy and writing skills to children in elementary schools (Sun and Feng, 2009).

  16. SpeakEasy: online support for oral presentation skills

    This paper describes the development of an online course that aims to help tertiary students improve their English oral presentation skills. There is frequently too little class time available for students to try to put into practice the skills deemed necessary for an effective presentation. This course aims to allow learners to prepare their ...

  17. Teaching Effective Presentation Skills in English Language Arts

    Presentation skills are a worry for most people.And, let's face it…public speaking is a part of life (even if it's just life in middle school or high school). In fact, according to a Gallup poll, 40% of Americans indicated public speaking as their biggest fear.Snakes came in first place at 51%.

  18. Classroom Presentation Tools

    Classroom Presentation Tools - English Language Teaching Home Page

  19. 6 presentation skills and how to improve them

    To fully understand the impact these skills have on creating a successful presentation, it's helpful to look at each one individually. Here are six valuable skills you can develop: 1. Active listening. Active listening is an excellent communication skill for any professional to hone.

  20. Peer feedback with presentations in ELT: 10 steps

    Start the course with clear rules on mutual respect, elicited from the students themselves. Step 2: Show students the value of peer feedback. Ask yourself why they need to do this task and what they will learn from peer feedback. If students understand why they need to have these skills, they will be more engaged in the task.

  21. Presentation Skills

    Presentation Skills Tim Thompson details on his blog how presentations skills aren't just something for students but fundament to good teaching. presentation speaking teacher training

  22. 20 Strategies For Introverts To Improve Their Presentation Skills

    Leveraging deep industry insights, introverted biz dev leaders can hone their presentation skills by focusing on clarity, storytelling and data visualization. Personalizing interactions, even in ...

  23. Delivering engaging lessons with Presentation Plus

    Presentation Plus on Cambridge One is a comprehensive presentation software that brings textbooks to life. It provides a digital version of the student's books, complete with embedded videos, audio files, interactive activities, and built-in answer keys. This powerful tool is compatible with interactive whiteboards, data projectors, and ...