报名期间：从 即日起 到 无限期
上课期间：从 2017-09-01 到 2018-01-31
学分数：3

Presentations are part of the working routine for both students and working people. It is an important skill that helps us get our message across to a group of people. A presentation can be used in many different kinds of situation. It may be designed to entertain people. It can be used to inform people. Its purpose can be to persuade people. A presentation made be used to seek other peoples’ opinions. These, and many more reasons, lie behind why we give presentations. However whatever the purpose a presentation needs to communicate well. The connection needs to be made with the audience.
The aim of the course is to help you get your message across clearly to your audience when you are making a presentation in English. The course will give you knowledge of good presentation principles for creating the structure, using visual aids and tools and managing your use of English. These principles will help to make your presentations more effective. However presentations are about personal style. This is something you learn by observing others and practicing yourself. So, this class will have a very practical orientation.

During the course you will:
1. Learn how to plan a presentation.
2. Learn how to make effective use of visual aids.
3. Learn how to use body language and other signals.
4. Have opportunity to improve the use of your English listening, speaking and writing skills.
5. Have the opportunity to practice and develop your presentation skills.

Course teaching approach
This class has an applied rather than a theoretical orientation. So the class with involve introduction of good presentations principles. These will be presented by me using PowerPoint. We will review examples of presentations from businesses and have case discussion about these. However the practical orientation will mean that ever third week we will have class presentations. These will be made in groups, recorded and the class and I will give feedback.

Assessment
The course will be assessed as follows:
1. In class presentations 80%
2. Two unannounced quizzes 10% (Multiple choice)
3. Other class participation 10% (In class contribution)
Please note there is no mid term or final.
Absence from a presentation will lead to a zero mark for that classes' assessment (for that individual).