南京医科大学《大学英语》课件-Session 1-Introduction to Making Presentations.pptVIP

English for Scientific Presentations and Academic Communications The idea of “presentation” By presentation we mean a talk or speech given by a presenter (sometimes more than one) to an audience of two or more people. A successful presentation is not only given to the audience, it is given for the audience. Why do a presentation at a conference?Inform others of the results you have achieved.Get feedback on your work, establish new contacts, collaborate with other research groups, and maybe even get more funds.Get an opportunity to talk about what you probably wouldn’t mention in your paper.Include the presentation you have made in your CV or in applications for grants. What will you learn from this course?Overcome problems with nerves and embarrassment.Prepare and practice a well-organized, interesting presentation.Highlight the essential points you want the audience to remember.Avoid problems in English by using short easy-to-say sentences.Attract and retain audience attention.Decide what to say at each stage of the presentation.Improve your pronunciation.Learn useful phrases.Deal with questions from the audience.Gain confidence and give a memorable presentation. Making presentations Press conferenceBriefingDemonstrationProduct launchLectureTalkSeminarWorkshopTypes of presentations Introduction Academic presentations are mainy meant for informing and training. Just think how many presenations you attend every day. What irritates people most during presentations? the speaker was nervous the speaker was disorganised the speaker had bad accent the speaker did not sound enthusiastic the speaker was monotonous the speaker read his/her script or notes and never looked at me there was so much material on the slides that I couldn’t get it all down the visuals were badthe speaker was mumbling/speaking too softly the speech was confusing; I didn’t know what he/she was trying to tell meI was irritated by his/her clothingThis is what irr