# | Video | Duration |
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1 | What our body says | 04:39 |
2 | Basic issues to consider | 01:46 |
3 | Structure of oral presentations | 02:52 |
4 | Material support: Some keys | 02:32 |
Part III: Structure of oral presentations
It is important to bear in mind what I want to say, how, when, why and to whom. There are things, for example, cannot be made by message. Or there are things that cannot be done over the phone… there are things that it is always better to go to speak them personally.
Let's put the case that I have an exam, I go away… what will you do? Are you going to send an e-mail to the teacher? You can… but first try to go talk to him. Because, as this is a thing that needs teacher approval… you can suspend a subject… it's better not to do it by e-mail.
I have to be ordered in my speech. This is very important. When you have to present something: for example, in the conferences we usually go, you send your article, they will accept it, and they tell you that you have seven minutes to present your work… maybe it's a job for two years and summarize it in seven minutes will be difficult. If it costs when one is ordered, imagine when one is not.
It is important to have this in mind. It is an approximate ratio of percentages: a brief introduction of what you are about to present, because the other people might not know it; development… I know this is very basic but it is important because when I have not much practice doing exposures I can extend much in the first half and when I want to go to the second I only have two minutes.
And this is also evaluated because it is a competence, namely synthesize information, to know good planning and organizing well the message I want to convey.
Furthermore, we have not seen this before; you have to control these elements: the voice volume and intonation. If someone speaks very softly, after ten minutes, I'm tired of making the effort to hear something because is hard to hear.
So, control the volume and tone is important. Control the vocabulary too, obviously. The tags: "eh", "vale" ... we all do it, but we don't realize until we see us in a video, or until someone tells us that we have said 57 times "vale".
The syntax, we have to try to speak neatly and coherently.
The order, structure and pauses.