ESL SPEAK AND SMILE: E-KIT

ESL
SPEAK AND
SMILE: E-KIT

Oh, no! I
have an oral
presentation
tomorrow!

So how do
you feel
now?

Feeling nervous? Feeling self-conscious?

Hands are shaking? Voice is trembling?

ESL SPEAK AND SMILE: E-KIT
TABLE OF CONTENT

ITEM CONTENT PAGE
4
1. ORAL PRESENTATION / PUBLIC SPEAKING BASICS
5-9
2. STAGES OF PRESENTATION 10 - 14
3. STRATEGIES IN ORAL PRESENTATION
4. EXTRA TIPS TO REDUCE SPEAKING ANXIETY 15
5. SAMPLES OF PRESENTATION AND FEEDBACKS 16 - 17
6. CHECKLIST OF A GOOD PRESENTATION CRITERIA
18

ORAL PRESENTATION / PUBLIC SPEAKING BASICS

• In speechmaking, you expand your conversational skills to cater to a larger
audience.

• There are three major differences between public speaking and daily
conversation, which are:
❏ Public speaking is more highly structured.
❏ Public speaking requires more formal language.
❏ Public speaking requires a different method of delivery.

STAGES OF PRESENTATION

There are three stages of presentation for a presenter to consider:

PRE- DURING POST-
PRESENTATION PRESENTATION PRESENTATION

What should you do What should you do What should you do
BEFORE the DURING the AFTER the
presentation? presentation?
presentation?

PRE-PRESENTATION STAGE

1. Deal with your anxiety 6. State the sub-points

2. Think of the purpose of Develop introduction and
conclusion
your presentation
Formulate the main idea
3. Pay attention to your preview / review sentence

appearance Develop slides and / or other visual
aids
Analyze your audience’s needs,
attitude, knowledge level, 10. Develop handouts
environment, demographic

information.

5. Brainstorm main ideas

DURING PRESENTATION STAGE

1. Engage your audience

2. Communicate your energy & enthusiasm to your
audience

3. Deliver your presentation in a natural &
conversational style.

Be aware of what you are saying and how you are
4.

saying it.

5. Make proper eye contact with the audience

6. Put your energy to work

7. Turn your body appropriately and always face
the audience

DURING PRESENTATION STAGE

8. Use proper gesture to emphasize your content

9. Show proper facial expression

10. Vary your pitch, volume & pacing

11. Maintain your composure

12. Keep your posture erect but relax - stand up straight but not
stiff

13. Pay attention to your pace-if you are too fast,
slow down

14. Pause-to allow some period of silence during your presentation

POST-PRESENTATION STAGE

Encourage your Listen attentively Prepare for the
audience to ask to questions questions that
might be asked
questions

Involve the Keep answers to
audience in your the point
response / answer

STRATEGIES IN ORAL PRESENTATION

Developing Dealing with
confidence nervousness

STRATEGIES IN ORAL PRESENTATION

● DEVELOPING CONFIDENCE

Nervousness at the start of a speech is normal and even desirable.

• Your body is producing the extra adrenaline shot as a common reaction to a
stressful event.

Think of stage fright as stage enthusiasm or stage excitement
instead
Turn your negative feelings into positive force

What matters most is how you deal with nervousness to make it
works for you rather than against you.

STRATEGIES IN ORAL PRESENTATION

● DEALING WITH NERVOUSNESS

1. Acquire speaking
experience

- Enroll yourself into public speaking course. Like
many other skills, you learn to improve the speech

making skills through trial and error.

- The course is a healthy, practical arena for you to acquire and sharpen the
skills.

STRATEGIES IN ORAL PRESENTATION

● DEALING WITH NERVOUSNESS

2. Prepare, prepare, prepare!

- Prepare so thoroughly until you cannot help but
be successful.

- Prepare the speech, get feedback from your friends, do it a number of times
until you feel comfortable with the speech.

STRATEGIES IN ORAL PRESENTATION

● DEALING WITH NERVOUSNESS

3. Always to think
positive

- Transform your negative thoughts into positive
ones.

For instance, you may have this negative thought –
“I wish I didn’t have to give this speech”.

Transform the thought into a positive one –
“This speech is a chance for me to share my ideas and gain experience

as a speaker.”

EXTRA TIPS TO REDUCE SPEAKING ANXIETY

Quietly tighten and relax your 1. Be at your best physically and
muscles. Squeeze your hands mentally
together and release them slowly.
2.
These serve as an outlet for your extra
adrenaline and thus can reduce your A good night’s sleep can help you
tension. to feel better.

5. 3.
Concentrate on communicating your
Use visual aids. Select ones which ideas to your audience. Do not labour
are informative and interesting.. your thought on stage fright so much.

They create interest and draw the 4.
attention away from you, hence, making Exercise deep breath to
channel out your anxiety
you less self-conscious with the
presentation

SAMPLE PRESENTATION AND FEEDBACK (VIDEO 1)

STRENGTH WEAKNESSES

● Good visual presentation and ● Constant, unvarying
a well-edited video
hand gestures
● Great attention getter at the ● Monotonous
beginning of the presentation
intonation
● High onfidence level in throughout the
presenting the points, thus speech
making it easier for the viewer ● Fixed degree of
to focus excitement

● Effective visual presentation
with a combination of minimal
words and pictures

● Clear audio without much
interference of outside noise

● Good articulation with normal
speech rate

● Effective closing with
reinstatement of the thesis and
sharing of an interesting quote

SAMPLE PRESENTATION AND FEEDBACK (VIDEO 2)

STRENGTH WEAKNESSES

● Good effort in video ● Lengthy introduction makes
editing the audience to lose focus -
lack of attention getter
● Good effort in
elaborating the topic ● Wordy slides- tendency to
read on screen rather than
● Clear, audible voice presenting
● Informative statistical /
● Occurrences of L1
support of data - good to interference during the
capture audience’s presentation
attention
● Pronunciations are in the
● Manage to close the average level – needs more
practice
topic by highlighting the
necessary steps to ● Lacking important content,
overcome the issue. i.e. less emphasis on
strategies to overcome the
issue

● Missing note of
appreciation for the
audiences, i.e. no ‘thank
you’ uttered at the end of
the presentation

CHECKLIST OF A GOOD PRESENTATION CRITERIA

1. Deal with your anxiety and nervousness.
2. Thoroughly plan, organise and develop the content of your presentation.

3. Develop and use visual aids.
4. Work on the introduction so your speech will get off to a good start.

5. Work on the conclusion so your speech will end on a strong note.

6. Prepare and rehearse your presentation until you are confident about its
delivery.

7. Focus on communicating with your audience, rather than on worrying about
your nerves.

8. Deliver your presentation enthusiastically.
9. Conduct engaging Q&A session.

THE END. AUTHORS:
THANK YOU AND • RAJA NUR HIDAYAH BINTI RAJA YACOB

ALL THE BEST! • MIMI MAZLINA BINTI MOHAMAD
• SALWANI BINTI MOHD SALLEH
• MOHD AZIZI BIN AB GHANI
• NUR AMALINA BINTI AWANG

ACADEMY OF LANGUAGE STUDIES (APB)
UiTM CAWANGAN KELANTAN

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