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Up Close and Personal - Tell Your Story
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...
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How to Deliver a Presentation in English
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...
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Take Home Message - Start with the End in Mind
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?
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Rhetorical Techniques: Learn the Art of Great Presentations
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.
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6 Reasons Why You Teach The Use of Visual Aids
“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...
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Presentation Skills: 6 Reasons Why You Start with the Attention Listening Curve
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.
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Build It and They Will Come
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...
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Presentation - Embrace the Weirdness!
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....
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Business Communication: Starting with Clear Understanding from the Get-Go
Many university students have little or no work experience or have never used English in a business environment. Even if students have work experience, there is no guarantee they have attended any communication...
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Presentation Skills - 5 Tips for Getting Started on Course Design
Teaching presentations is fun and very rewarding so that we should endeavour to do this in the most productive way possible ...