For your presentation to be successful you need to engage your audience. To do this your presentation needs to be well organised, easy to follow and most importantly delivered naturally. In Presenting with confidence, we will first focus on how to create a coherent and accurate presentation before moving on to look at the key features of pronunciation to help you engage your audience.
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Changing your academic writing into a presentation is challenging for any student. It's important when preparing your presentation you don't write an essay and then simply read this out to your audience. This workshop will help you with key strategies to ensure your presentation is a success.
In this session, you will:
A successful presentation is always well organised and coherent. This workshop will help you develop the language needed to shape an effective presentation with an engaging start, a clear and progressive middle, and a strong ending. We will cover general discourse markers, sequencing devices and transitional language usage: the key functional language needed for a successful presentation.
In this session, you will:
Presentations often require you to describe graphs and charts. Your audience can lose interest if there is too much detail, so it's important you summarise and highlight key data. This workshop will focus on developing your ability to accurately describe quantities and changes in your presentation using a range of words and phrases
In this session, you will:
It's not just what you say - it's how you say it. Presentations need to be delivered in a way that engages your audience and helps them follow what you are saying. In this workshop we will work on your speed, accurate word stress and natural intonation patterns to help you successfully deliver your presentation.
In this session, you will: