IE5 (Presentations) Guide

OVERVIEW

  1. Initially review and orient students to the kind of knowledge of language, strategies, and skills that they will need in order make presentations. Besides speaking skills, they will also need specific presentation skills that will include language use, content knowledge, body language, and technical knowledge.
  2. Expand students’ access and familiarity with new topics and then move toward developing content based study. Learn ways to study and interact with social media, academic subjects, and an audience.
  3. Common presentation software includes PowerPoint, Prezi and Keynote. Alternatively, poster sessions may be a good way to make presentations more interactive. The genre of making presentations as a whole is typically geared to presenting problems and solutions and/or arguing for a certain proposal, stance, or opinion. Giving the students a mixture of presentation styles would be probably a good idea.

Please note: Since there are few classes, there is a chance of a wider range of levels in these classes than in the speaking classes.

DIFFERENT LEVELS

Keep a general middle level in mind initially as a frame of reference then adjust up or down according to your particular class level (e.g., basic, intermediate or proficient). For lower levels, teachers will possibly want to give more language skill practice (at first) while for higher levels, teachers will most likely want to move immediately into academic materials including their field of study. For intermediate levels, a flexible balance of both language practice and content based learning is suggested.

Important: For all levels, please make sure there is a clear difference between first year speaking classes (Integrated English 1) and second year presentation classes (Integrated English 5). Please note that there is no second year speaking course. In its place there is the presentation course. We recommend teachers to think of ‘presentations’ as a specialized branch of speaking. The second year presentation class should focus more on academic skills and content based learning while still working on ‘brushing up’ related language skills. Finally, please make sure the second year students do not have the same textbook that they used in their first year speaking class. Second year presentation textbooks tend to be more focused on a more straightforward set of skills.

 

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