Presentation and Q&A Session
This task simulates a conference presentation, which means that you will present a topic of your choice related to your field of study in front of an audience (a small group of other students and your examiner), and engage in a follow-up Q&A session.
You will also prepare a slideshow and write a presentation abstract to complement your talk.
You will complete this task successfully if
you present a prepared, well-organised, logically connected presentation related to your field of study within the time limit of about 10 minutes.
you consider the needs of your audience and structure your presentation in such a way that it can be followed by an audience unfamiliar with your topic.
you respond to your colleagues’ questions with such a degree of fluency and spontaneity that will enable understanding.
you ask your colleagues relevant questions with such a degree of fluency that will enable understanding.
you support your presentation effectively with clearly designed slides.
your manner of delivery (pronunciation, volume, tempo and body language) as well as language range and accuracy promote understanding.
EXAM PRESENTATIONS BY STUDENTS OF TEACHING
Your presentation must be related to your field of study. Your options as students of teaching are therefore following:
- a presentation about any science topic you've studied and might teach in the future
- a presentation about a topic related specifically to teaching, teaching methodology, pedagogy, e.g. inspiring personalities in the history of pedagogy or psychology
- a presentation about your CLIL lesson in which you introduce the objectives of the lesson and some of the tasks (it can and should be interactive but stick to the time limit and remember that primarily, you need to show off your own presentation and language skills).
Always remember
- that the other students at the exam date may not be the students of the same discipline and may not have attended the courses of English for teachers, which means you need to include plenty of context, e.g. briefly introduce the CLIL method
- that every presentation needs to have an introduction, main body and conclusion, even if the main part is you teaching a CLIL activity