Presentation Skills in German is a follow-up to the required course Foreign Language I/German. It is designed to develop students' communication skills in a business setting.
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.
Teacher(s)
Syllabus
1. Body position and breathing, exercises
2. Body language, gestures, mimics, non-verbal communication, eye contact, exercises, games
3. Speech, paraverbal communication (voice tone and pitch), paradigm of verbal communication, pronunciation and intonation, exercises
4. Language means in communication – part I: conversation initiation, being given the floor, argumentation, contribution to the topic
5. Language means in communication – part II: emphasis, changing the subject, connectors, recapitulation, conclusion
6. Styles of specialist language communication, common phrases, idioms, sentence patterns and text structure
7. Presentation preparation: assembling information, information classification and structuring, introduction to a presentation, mini-presentation delivery
8. Presentation preparation: expression of main ideas, mini-presentation delivery, conclusion, exercises: elevator speech
9. Presentation aids: mid maps, visuals, overhead transparencies, PowerPoint, leaflets, handouts, music
10. Subject presentation, five-point presentation structure, exercise referring to a selected subject, presentation delivery
11. Product presentation: particularities, demonstration – video
12. Company presentation: structure, the use of figures, graphs, and tables, demonstration – video
Presentation delivery and evaluation
Course Enrolment Limitations
The capacity limit for the course is 20 student(s).
