YPL workshop 2

Presentation skills

How to become a better presenter 

(in English)

Presentation Skills

Workshop 2

Presenting - Feedback - Survival tactics 

1. Responses to your presentation

2. Presenting your pitch

    Giving and receiving feedback

3. Survival tactics

4. Feedback on workshop

Recap Workshop 1

What do you remember from Workshop 1?

Recap Workshop 1

• Effective openings 
• Using your voice (pausing, pacing, stress, intonation) 
• Rhetorical techniques (alliteration, repetition, tripling, contrast) 

Effective openings

What techniques can you use to open your presentation effectively?

Effective openings

• Use of imagination, engaging the audience's senses
• Using humour
• Asking a question, delaying the answer to create suspense

Also important:

• Stating your purpose
• Keep the reader in the loop on what you are doing (signposting)

Using your voice

You should use language to get the audience's attention (hook), and structure + give meaning to your content (signposting)

 

You can (and should!) also use your voice to keep the audience's attention and give meaning to your content.

You can do that with stress, intonation, pacing and pausing. 

Rhetorical techniques

What techniques can you use to help structure your content and make it memorable for the audience?

Rhetorical techniques

• Alliteration
•  Rule of three / tricolon / tripling
• Repetition
• Contrast

Responses to your presentation

• Asking for additional information
• Asking for clarification
• Asking for proof
• Voicing concern
• Making a criticism
• Giving a compliment

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What kind of a future, if any, do you see for European electrical consumer goods?

Yes, that's all very well, but what I want to know is, can they become competitive?

So, what you're saying is, the future of the industry in Europe depends on the yen. 

Competitive? It's difficult to say. If the yen continues to be strong, it'll obviously push up the price of imported Japanese goods, and that'll help. 

Well, with cost cutting and decentralisation, they should, at least, stop losing money. 

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If I understood you correctly, you said the computer industry had burned itself out. 

Don't get me wrong. Innovation will continue, but a surplus of products clearly can't.

OK, fair enough. I see what you mean.

No, perhaps I didn't make myself clear. What I was trying to say was the rate of new product launches will have to slow down. 

How do you mean? Product innovation is what the computer industry is all about. 

Listener responses / speaker responses 

Do the exercises from your worksheet. 

Mark useful expressions for future use.

Types of questions

• Good questions
• Difficult questions
• Unnecessary questions
• Irrelevant questions

Do the exercise on the worksheet.

Presentation prep

Finish up your 3-minute presentation and prepare to present to 2/3 other students.

Choose two types of questions from the list below and prepare to ask them:

• Asking for additional information
• Asking for clarification
• Asking for proof
• Voicing concern
• Making a criticism
• Giving a compliment

Presentation 

• Groups of 3/4
•  Use peer evaluation forms to assess each presentation and your own
• Be prepared to present your feedback to the rest of the class and the teacher after each round of presentation.

Presentations

No stress! How to fix a mess

• What stressful moments did you have in your presentation? Where did the stress come from? 

Do the exercises on the worksheet

Self-evaluation

Think about presentations you might have to give in the future. What can you take from these workshops, what must you do differently?

Fill in the self-evaluation form.

Wat vond je goed in deze workshop, en wat heb je nog gemist?

Hoe toepasbaar vind je wat je hebt geleerd, voor 5H/HBO?