Once you’ve taught students about the benefits of storytelling and maybe shown a few examples from great presenters, how do you get your students to integrate stories into their presentations? Well, the answer is simply get them to tell you a story.
Here I outline my favourite, most productive, most powerful exercise to introduce students to telling stories.
You can quickly and easily improve the delivery of a presentation by varying pacing and intonation – using emphasis to draw the listeners into their key points. Here is a step by step procedure that can help you to teach or learn some vital skills.
The first factor to decide on for any presentation is the Take Home Message. Start with the end in mind. What is the one thing you want people to think, know or do at the end of the presentation?
All the tips so that you can convince students rhetorical devices and techniques are important – why we use them, how to use them & how to learn them.
“I’m an English teacher and teaching students how to design and integrate visual aids is just not my job!” Not true! Presentation is a communication skill and Business English involves teaching communication skills. Our students need to be instructed on how to manage business communication effectively, powerfully and creatively. If giving presentations is part of …
Why you should teach the Attention Listening Curve – what it is and what the consequences for presentations are. It’s fundamental to passing on this life skill to our students.
If you tell students exactly what is expected and the precise criteria by which they are being examined, then they will strive to produce presentations that meet your expectations. Here are examples of guidelines that I found helped students to find orientation and direction in their planning.
Good and great presenters get recognised in organisations. They persuade, motivate and inspire and our students deserve to be shown how they can do this. Giving a presentation is weird but it’s wonderful. It’s a unique way of conveying a message that can be powerful, memorable and even life-changing.
Teaching presentations is fun and very rewarding so that we should endeavour to do this in the most productive way possible …