3P - Plan, prepare and practise

By now, you should have been doing some planning, preparation and practice for your first assessment, the Oral Presentation (either Option 1 - The Legend Speech, or Option 2 - Speech of Introduction). To help you plan, prepare and practise for your Oral Presentation, you could work with a friend/ partner.

(1) finalise all your slides,

(2) prepare a cue card for each of the slide,

(3) practise or rehearse in front of your friend and let him/ her time your presentation,

(4) ask your friend to observe and write his/her comments on the following:

(a) The Speaker/ Presenter
(i) LANGUAGE: accuracy, fluency, pronunciation, word choice/ selection of words,
(ii) EFFECTIVENESS: understanding/ comprehension, relevant to the given topic, impact on you as audience
(iii) STRUCTURE: Intro-Body/ Content-Closing/ Conclusion organization, attention-getter, clarity and flow of ideas, relevant supporting details (elaboration, examples, facts and figures etc.)
(iv) DELIVERY: confidence, eye contact, gestures, facial expression, posture
(v) VOICE: clarity (loud and clear), articulation, variety of tones (not flat, monotonous)
(vi) TIME MANAGEMENT: time limit (3 minutes)

(b) The Slides
(i) LANGUAGE: accurate, suitability of selection of words with content
(ii) EFFECTIVENESS: understanding/ comprehension, relevant to the given topic, impact on you as audience
(iii) STRUCTURE: Cover page/ title of presentation, Intro-Body/ Content-Closing/ Conclusion organization, transition between slides (smooth?)
(iv) CREATIVITY: Font type and size, suitability of images, photos, audio/ video clips etc. and their connection to the given topic/ message to be conveyed

(5) pay attention to your friend's comments and improve your presentation skills and/ or edit your slides.

Now switch roles and help your friend in his/ her practice session.

For your blogging activity, based on your friend's comments, write in your blog about you have done to improve your presentation skills and/ or edit your slides after you have completed your practice session. As usual, it should be one to two paragraphs, min 100 words, max 250 words.
(Due: Week 7)