1. The Right Kind of
Language
Public Speaking &
Presentation
Week 5 – Language
Professor Hayashi

2. What are we
doing today?
• attendance & prep sheet check
• review
• language focus
• language knowledge
BREAK
• practice
• mid-term speeches
• in-class presentation
.

3. Review
• It is SO IMPORTANT to link
your ideas in your speech
• What expressions do you
remember from the ‘language
focus’ for linking ideas? How do
you connect ideas?

4. Review
• What goes in the introduction?
AG, Credibility, Thesis, Purpose
• What are the do’s and don’ts of a
good presentation? (the golden
checklist!) page 7

5. Language Focus
• Active vs. Passive Forms

6. 3 Tactics to Engage
the Audience
• Use personal pronouns
• Refer to the audience
• Use appropriate everyday language

7. Obama!
• http://geneva.usmission.gov/2012/03/26/presi
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=78JPYA7fqzQ

8. Partner Up!
Page 27 – exercise 3
Page 28 – exercise 4, 5
EXERCISE 3:
a)We discussed the issue of restructuring.
b)The Finance Manager is directing money into the
wrong accounts.
c)Both companies will sign the agreement later this
month.
d)I have found it rather unreliable.
e)The press reports that shares are due to rise.

9. Language Focus

10. Writing For the Ear

11. Language Knowledge
• Everything is better
in pairs, so partner up!
Page 26 – exercise 1
a)spoken
b)written
c)written
d)spoken

12. Listening!
Calling all
voice actors!
page 26, exercise 2
a)read, distant, prepared, impersonal
b)spoken, distant, prepared, impersonal
c)spoken, human, spontaneous, personal

13. Practice!
• Group A – make a short
presentation on “The
Advantages of Reading a
Presentation”
• Group B – make a short
presentation on “The
Disadvantages of Reading a
Presentation”