ESF:MPJ_PJPSFS Presentation Skills for Foreig - Course Information
MPJ_PJPSFS Presentation Skills for Foreign Students
Faculty of Economics and AdministrationAutumn 2011
- Extent and Intensity
- 0/2. 5 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
- Teacher(s)
- PhDr. Helena Hušková (lecturer)
Mgr. Bc. Eva Punčochářová (seminar tutor) - Guaranteed by
- Mgr. Bc. Eva Punčochářová
Language Centre, Faculty of Economics and Administration Division – Language Centre
Contact Person: Mgr. Lenka Skoupá - Timetable of Seminar Groups
- MPJ_PJPSFS/01: Mon 12:00–13:35 S305, E. Punčochářová
- Prerequisites (in Czech)
- (! PJPSFS Presentation Skills for Foreig )
- Course Enrolment Limitations
- The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
The capacity limit for the course is 20 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/20, only registered: 0/20, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 0/20 - fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
- Finance (programme ESF, M-FU)
- Multidisciplinary studies (programme ESF, KOS)
- Business Management (programme ESF, M-EKM)
- Business Management (programme ESF, N-EKM)
- Public Economics and Administration (programme ESF, M-HPS)
- Course objectives
- At the beginning of the course students should:
- have upper-intermediate knowledge of English.
Main objectives of the course:
- to acquaint students with the basic techniques used in the process of preparing and giving a presentation;
- to extend their vocabulary related to this discipline;
- to practise the newly learnt skills in front of the audience. - Syllabus
- 1.INTRODUCTION - key features of an effective presentation, getting started, stating your purpose, different ways of attracting the attention of the audience, making an immediate impact on the audience, how to introduce yourself and your talk.
- 2. EFFECTIVE OPENINGS - problem technique, amazing facts technique, story/anecdote technique, signposting, survival tactics.
- 3. EXPLOITING VISUALS TO MAXIMUM EFFECT - introducing visuals, commenting on visuals, description: shapes, trends, changes and developments.
- 4. CAUSE, EFFECT AND PURPOSE - key words and phrases for linking ideas, giving facts and reasons behind them, linking the parts, sequences/ordering, comparing, digressing, contradicting, giving examples.
- 5. USING YOUR VOICE - articulation, chunking, stress, pacing, intonation, well-known sayings, idioms, sound-scripting.
- 6. THE RIGHT KIND OF LANGUAGE - advantages of speaking versus reading, personal and impersonal language styles, changing written language to spoken language, emphasis.
- 7. FURTHER BASIC TECHNIQUES 1 - focusing, softening, repetition, rhetorical questions.
- 8. FURTHER BASIC TECHNIQUES 2 - dramatic contrasts, tripling, machine gunning.
- 9. FURTHER BASIC TECHNIQUES 3 - build-ups , knock-downs, simplification, creating rapport.
- 10. BODY LANGUAGE - eye contact, facial expression, hands, movement, posture.
- 11. KEY LANGUAGE - business terms, formality, useful expressions.
- 12. HANDLING QUESTIONS FROM THE AUDIENCE - types of questions.
- 13. Review.
- Literature
- required literature
- Presentation Skills exercise book - available in the online materials.
- Assessment methods
- Type of lesson:
- seminar.
Final mark awarded after the following requirements have been met:
- 80% attendance;
- completion of homework;
- presentation of two given topics;
- active participation in class. - Language of instruction
- English
- Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
- Study Materials
The course is taught annually.
General note: Předmět je určen pouze pro zahraniční studenty.
- Enrolment Statistics (Autumn 2011, recent)
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