08232-学术英语口语教程课件.pptVIP

Pointing over and over at your audience. Doing any gestures repetitively. ?Speaking at a podium, you grip the sides of the podium or lean on it. Your arms are glued to their sides. Repetitive flicking of your hair off your forehead. Scratching your head repeatedly. ?Looking out of the window once in a while. Task I Performance Elements Enthusiasm: Speak with feeling. Humor (Why?) Interaction With the Audience Task I 1) Read the following humor placement which could either be prepared beforehand or created spontaneously over the presentation by the presenter. 2) Work in groups. Discuss other expected or unexpected happenings where you can place humors. Then report to the whole class. Lets say you are writing on the flipchart and your marker runs out of ink. Your window of opportunity is now open. You might jump through the window and say, “I guess Ive come to the dry part of my presentation.” Window slams shut. Everything is fine. You look like a quick wit and a pretty cool presenter. Task I Question-and-answer sessions are great opportunities to show off your sense of humor and get audience participation during a presentation. A good way to open up a Q A session is to say, “The last time I opened up for a Q A session, the first question I got was What time is it? or Can I be excused? or Arent you getting tired up there? ” Say anything except the old boring “Now lets open it up for questions.” Task I Unit Four Thesis Defense Learning objectives: to learn how to prepare for a thesis defense; to understand how a thesis defense proceeds; to learn how to deliver a thesis defense. What? defending the thesis to a committee: research methods, other influential factors. the oral presentation answering questions asked by the thesis defense committee members open to academic and research staff, research students and guests invited A General Format Presentation - 15-20 minutes - summarizing major contributions of the thesis. Questions - e