The course aims to improve students' presentation and discussion skills, when possible drawing on insights gathered in the "Academic Skills: Listening" course. The tasks try to prepare students for the making of presentations in seminars, for the defence of their dissertations, and for classroom interaction as second-language learners and teachers. The also course tries to encourage learners to evaluate their own performance and to engage in self-monitoring and peer-monitoring as means of improving speaking performance. Spoken and written English.
Choice of topic. Collecting information from different sources. 2. Presentation skills. Structuring the presentation. 3. Speaking to small and large audiences. Style adjustment. Getting the attention of the audience. Voice quality and body language. 4. Monitoring talk. Summarising and ending talk. Procedural vocabulary. 5. Expressing a point of view. Reporting, presenting contrasting or contradictory ideas. 6. Talking and visual aids: organizing the board/ handout/ Power-point presentation. 7. Making your presentation interesting: telling jokes and stories. 8. Discussion skills: topic control, argumentation and persuasion. 9. Making suggestions, interrupting, hedging and politeness. 10. Asking and answering questions.
Choice of topic. Collecting information from different sources. 2. Presentation skills. Structuring the presentation. 3. Speaking to small and large audiences. Style adjustment. Getting the attention of the audience. Voice quality and body language. 4. Monitoring talk. Summarising and ending talk. Procedural vocabulary. 5. Expressing a point of view. Reporting, presenting contrasting or contradictory ideas. 6. Talking and visual aids: organizing the board/ handout/ Power-point presentation. 7. Making your presentation interesting: telling jokes and stories. 8. Discussion skills: topic control, argumentation and persuasion. 9. Making suggestions, interrupting, hedging and politeness. 10. Asking and answering questions.