| Describing purpose of oral communication in work/professional related contexts; understanding and differentiating informative talks, persuasive talks, descriptive and argumentative talks.
| Assessing, predicting and describing audience needs and expectations in the case of technical/scientific communication. Formulating and prioritizing communicative goals: relating to audience expectations.
| Organizing information and structuring ideas: leading information vs details, supporting info and exemplifying, supplementary info.
| Oral presentation format: Introduction, body, conclusion Q&A
| Preparing for speaking to an audience: introducing self, purpose of talk, previewing info and stating policy on questions.
| Controlling voice and spoken production: prosody of language: word and sentence stress, pace, rhythm and intonation.
| Using language to make an impact: parallel structures, tripling, cumulative structures; coordination with voice and body language.
| Preparing visual aid: PP slides – dos and don’ts; technical visual support (graphs, tables, etc.).
| Introducing, describing, and interpreting visual support data: talking about numerical data, describing trends in graphs/tables, summarizing and/or pointing to relevant numerical values/data.
| Presenting narrative data. Sequence markers and syntactic connectors. Transitional devices, discourse markers.
| Drawing a powerful conclusion: recapping main points, concluding, home-take messages.
| Inviting questions, managing rapport, expressing opinion, attitude.
| Formal vs informal language – politeness in a foreign language. Using humor, irony and personal anecdote to convey subtle meanings and gain audience support.
| Students’ presentations
