unit 62

Effective presentations require active audience engagement and adept handling of questions. When closing, be prepared with polite and professional responses, such as acknowledging confidentiality, staying within your expertise, and gracefully ending the session if time runs out.

Communicative Language Teaching Erick Carrillo

por Erick Carrillo

Line Vocab

por Simon Brooks

Communicative Language Teaching.

por Victoria Sol

Netiquette

por Ryan Smith

PRESENTATIONS 3: AUDIENCE INTERACTION

INTERCULTURAL ASPECTS

AVOID MANNERISMS

Avoid mannerisms - irritating ways of moving and speaking - such as overusing 'Er...

BE CAREFUL WITN HUMOR

For example, don't make jokes about people in the audience

DRESS FORMALLY

unless you know for sure that the occasion is informal

MAINTAIN EYE CONTACT

Maintain eye contact by looking round the room at each person in the audience for about a second, before moving on to the next person. Don't concentrate on just one or two people

FACE THE AUDIENCE

don't speak to the equipment or the screen

REMAIN STANDING

don't sit. Stay more or less in one place and don't move around too much

SMILE AT APPROPRIATE MOMENTS

Smiling is fine at appropriate moments, but not too much: it can seem insincere - as if you don't mean it

USE GESTURE

hand movements - to emphasize key points. Point with your whole hand, rather than just one finger

RESPECT THE AUDIENCE

Don't make exaggerated claims - don't say things are better than they really are

unit 62

Effective presentations require active audience engagement and adept handling of questions. When closing, be prepared with polite and professional responses, such as acknowledging confidentiality, staying within your expertise, and gracefully ending the session if time runs out.