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Lecturer(s)
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Course content
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Topics covered in seminars: Target audience. Preparing and structuring a presentation (walk-away message, strong introduction and conclusion, ways of organising the information). Language of presentations: levels of formality/informality, useful expressions, rhetorical questions, contrasts, tripling, simplification. Using one's voice: articulation, chunking, stress, intonation. Basic voice techniques: emphasis, focusing, softening, repetition. Handling questions: clarification, dealing with questions. Body language. Visual aids. How (not) to use AI tools when preparing a presentation. Language of debates/discussions. The extent of the face-to-face instruction: 13 seminars per semester / for part-time studies: 9 lessons
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Learning activities and teaching methods
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Dialogue metods(conversation,discussion,brainstorming), Self-study (text study, reading, problematic tasks, practical tasks, experiments, research, written assignments), Practicum, Students' portfolio
- Class attendance
- 26 hours per semester
- Home preparation for classes
- 15 hours per semester
- Preparation for credit
- 17 hours per semester
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Learning outcomes
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The aim of this course is to provide students with the necessary skills, techniques and methods to be effective at presenting in front of an audience and have a discussion and debate with them. Careful consideration is given to developing students' practical capability to prepare a meaningful presentation as well as enhancing the range of their speaking skills that will make their talks successful and effective.
Students will be able to prepare and use a variety of ways of presentations on a variety of topics.
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Prerequisites
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B1 level of English.
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Assessment methods and criteria
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Practical demonstration of acquired skills, Systematické pozorování studenta, Presentation of acquired knowledge via paper
Enrolment to the course on elearning.tul.cz. Emphasis will be placed on students' productive language skills to ensure they are of the required standard. Although this is not a language course, it is necessary for the students to apply knowledge/skills acquired in other subjects and for their performance/output to be grammatically correct and intelligible. Active in-class participation. Full-time studies: two absences are allowed, part-time students: one absence is allowed. If possible, students should let the teacher know they are going to miss a class in advance. Preparation and delivery of an oral presentation/speech, peer assessment of the delivered presentations. Students are required to revise their final presentation and deliver it again if their performance does not meet the requirements. Students will be recorded for the purpose of this class (detailed feedback). Additional assignments on Moodle should be submitted or carried out according to the instructions and within the given time period. The final assessment will be based on the complete, successful, and timely fulfilment of the core assignments and additional tasks both in class and via Moodle. The combined study students are required to do the same and are expected to do so.
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Recommended literature
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DIGNEN, Bob. Presentation skills in English. Fifty ways to improve your English without too much effort. Oxford: Summertown, 2007. ISBN 978-1-902741-86-4.
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MACANDREW, Richard a MARTÍNEZ, Ron. Taboos and issues: [photocopiable lessons on controversial topics]. Hove: Language Teaching Publications, 2001. ISBN 9781899396412.
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POWELL, Mark. Dynamic presentations. Cambridge Business Skills. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011.
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