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Monday, February 14, 2011

Entry 12: Punishment on Study Skills


Today some guys and I were punished, because we haven’t read the paragraph”Oral report”. That’s why we should write about this topic in our Blogs. As I understood, this topic is about oral reports skills. There was told that it consists of three steps: preparation, practicing and presentation. The first step is selecting a topic, identifying references, developing bibliography and developing your report. When you select a topic, you should choose a narrow one. When your topic is selected, you need to find information about it. The most common source for students of course is internet. You can easily find everything you want there, but be careful with plagiarism, try to show Your ideas or use quotations. You also can find information in books, but for this you need to go to the library. I think that you’ll understand me, because a hectic life of a student doesn’t allow him to go there. The second step is practicing, it is necessary for each report, because you are not able to give report just after you read it. It is important to practice and it will be better if you’ll have “judges” of your report. You can ask your friends to listen to your report or record your speech. Sometimes it is useful to practice in front of mirror and you’ll be able to see your gestures and body language. The third step is presentation. It is the most important step in your report. At first, your look should be presentable. It is not Ok to give a report in t-shirt and jeans. No one will listen to you or take your report seriously. Second, you should think about you audience, you should speak clearly and in a not so loud voice. If you started with a joke you should end your presentation with it. It will be perfect if you’ll have eye contact with the audience. But there are some problems during the oral report, such as forgetting words or doing some disturbing gestures. I have questions on this topic.
1-   What problems can appear during the presentation?
2-  What are the three steps of oral presentation?
3-  What kinds of practicing are there in the second step?

Sunday, February 13, 2011

Entry 11: Interesting things about presentation.


Last time at the Study Skills we had a topic “Presentation”. As for me, I learnt a lot of new things during the lesson. I didn’t even know that there are different types of visuals. They can be different diagrams, formulas or just pictures. Visuals help your presentation, save time and highlight key points. I learnt that during your presentation you should about the audience, body language, your speech, vocabulary and information. No one will listen to you if your presentation isn’t interesting or if you speak too quietly. Your voice should be not so loud and not so quiet. I agree with all these points, however; I’d like to add some games with audience during presentation and different questions for them (to look how they understood my presentation). Maybe I will do this in my presentation, when I have such opportunity.