Success with Presentations

	Table of Contents About the Authors
Success with Presentations The videotape and workbook point out specific pronunciation and cultural presentation strategies that can make a big difference to your listeners. This course is useful for intermediate to advanced students and professionals giving presentations for companies or classes, or graduate students and researchers presenting research. The videotape (or DVD) demonstrates techniques using both native and non-native speakers and is accompanied by an exercise book giving specific improvement exercises, phrases, and strategies for successful presentations. Videotape and Workbook $59 DVD and Workbook $69 Workbook only $21 Videotape only (no workbook included) $38 DVD only (no workbook included) $48 The practical videotape (or DVD) demonstrates native and non-native speakers of English giving successful presentations and includes specific techniques and pronunciation strategies to make your presentation powerful and effective. It includes exercises and demonstrations of attention-getting introductions, useful transitions, clear explanations, successful visual aids, a dynamic conclusion, and effective handling of questions. Presenters also demonstrate nonverbal aspects such as good eye contact, creating audience rapport, body movement, volume, and rate of speech. These elements, along with effective pronunciation will give your speech the results you want. Workbook: The practical workbook is filled with developmental exercises, phrases to practice, techniques to copy, planning worksheets, and feedback forms. Unit 1: Audience Analysis Narrowing the topic Cultural comparisons Timing Gathering material Visualizing the room set-up Unit 2: An Attention Getting Introduction Attention getters Establishing credibility Presenting purpose and overview statements Unit 3: A Well-Marked Roadmap Clear outline Transitions Internal summaries Rhetorical questions Unit 4: A Clear Explanation Defining key terms and concepts Using specific examples Providing sufficient support Using recovery tactics Unit 5: A Dynamic Conclusion Giving a Substantial Conclusion Signaling your Conclusion Effective Delivery Unit 6: Supplementary Visual Aids Planning and preparation Delivery Unit 7: An Understandable Delivery Eliminating fillers Volume and breathing Rate, pausing and emphasis Crisply enunciated key terms Dramatic contrasts Enthusiastic intonation patterns Unit 8: Creating Audience Rapport General appearance Eye contact, expressions and gestures Use of space Use of pronouns and questions Unit 9: Interaction: Handling Questions and Responding Initiating interaction Handling responses Response to interruptions Clarifying questions Acknowledging and incorporating questions Answering directly, clearly and concisely Confirming satisfaction Hedging answers Predicting questions Unit 10: Special Situations Group presentations Unplanned presentations Impromptu presentations Expressing opinions or debates
About the Authors Colleen Meyers and Sheryl Holt are both ESL instructors at the University of Minnesota, teaching pronunciation and writing for over 20 years each. They have taught teaching assistants, business professionals and students in the United States and many countries around the world. They have presented at local and national conferences such as TESOL and NAFSA, and each have co-authored books, including contributions by Colleen Meyers to a widely used ITA book, Communicate: Strategies for International Teaching Assistants (Prentice Hall Regents).