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Lecturer(s)
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Koutská Iva, PhDr. Ph.D.
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Marková Michaela, Mgr. Ph.D.
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Course content
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Topics covered in seminars: Presentation phases and related communication and language skills. Language of presentations: levels of formality/informality, useful expressions. Rhetorical questions, contrasts, tripling, simplification. Successful presentations: effective openings and means of organising the information (cause, effect, purpose) Visual aids Using one's voice: articulation, chunking, stress, intonation. Basic voice techniques: emphasis, focusing, softening, repetition. Body language. Handling questions: clarification, dealing with questions. The extent of the face-to-face instruction: 14 seminars per semester/combined study: 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
- 28 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 https://elearning.tul.cz/course/view.php?id=148944. Active in-class participation. Full-time studies: two absences are allowed, combined studies: one absence is allowed (pending the reason for them). If possible, students should let the teacher know they are going to miss a class in advance. Added emphasis will be placed on students' productive language skills to ensure these are of the required standard. Despite the fact that 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. Preparation and delivery of an oral presentation (its reflection and reworking), peer assessment of the delivered presentations. Students should be made aware that the delivery of their presentations will be recorded for the purposes of the subject (detailed feedback). However, it will be possible to arrange that the feedback concerning the recorded presentations will not be done in front of the whole class - should the student(s) wish so. Additional assignments/activities 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. 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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Bradbury, Andrew. Successful Presentation Skills. London, 2010.
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Chivers, Barbara and Michael Shoolbred. A Student's Guide to Presentations: Making your Presentation Count. Los Angeles, 2007.
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Mandel, Steve. Effective Presentation Skills. North Canton, Ohio, 1993.
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