Making short speeches with impact

You've got a great, major presentation, and suddenly you're asked if you can get your message across in five minutes! Don't panic. For today's television generation, sound bites can be more powerful than lengthy dissertations. Here's how to compress your speech without losing impact.

1. Don't apologize or mention that you usually have much more time. Be confident that you can communicate in five minutes.

2. Begin fast. Start with a an attention-getting statement such as, "Your job won't exist five years from now," or "In the next 5 minutes I want to convince you the best action you can take is..."

3. Use a strongly visual story. Illustrate your points -- how it is now, how it will or could be -- with a story so vivid that the audience can "see" it.

4. Divide your 5 minutes into three parts. Present a problem, a payoff, and your point of view: "The number one piece of advice I can give you today is...," your story illustrates your idea and your walk away line could be what will happen if they do what you suggest!

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8. Make oral presentation to the electronic one prepared before Take into account the following recommendations:

Presentation Mechanics. Avoid reading your presentation verbatim. Your slides should serve to prompt your remarks. After practicing your talk aloud several times, you will be able to detect any slides that do not jog your memory sufficiently, and you can make the necessary adjustments to them. Other recommendations:

1. Keep transitions between slides smooth.

2. Talk content should flow logically from slide to slide.

3. Practice your time management by saying your talk out loud several times. If you merely rehearse silently rather than rehearsing aloud, your total time estimate will be inaccurate. Often, you underestimate how much time the presentation will need.

4. Practice making eye contact with the audience. Start by looking to the back of the room, and then move your eyes forward to engage the rest of the audience.

5. Combat speaker’s nerves. If you are inexperienced with giving timed oral presentations, be sure that you have practiced several times (preferably in front of someone else) and are very familiar with your presentation. You will be less nervous when you deliver your talk.

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9. Present the scientific reports found on topics of your own choice.

10. Get feedback from group mates and the teacher.

6. Academic argument

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1. Study the peculiarities of an academic argument: See Establishing Arguments by Stacy Weida in Appendix. Answer the following questions:

• What is a thesis or claim?

• What is the difference between debatable and non-debatable theses?

• What makes a thesis too broad?

• How can we narrow a thesis?

2. Think over the following theses

1. Pollution causes harm to the environment.

2. Pollution may be caused by human impact on the environment.

3. Governments all over the world should make efforts to limit pollution.

4. To eliminate pollution we should stop to burn fossil fuels.

What theses are debatable? Why?

3. Narrow the thesis

Limiting pollution requires wide-ranging activity

4. What type of claims do you know? Give examples.

5. What are evidences? What kind of evidences do you know?

6. Consider the following example of an effective presentation of an argument. How would you evaluate the claims and evidences?

Claim: Hybrid cars are an effective strategy to fight pollution.

Data1: Driving a private car is a typical citizen's most air polluting activity.

Warrant 1: Because cars are the largest source of private, as opposed to industry produced, air pollution switching to hybrid cars should have an impact on fighting pollution.

Data 2: Each vehicle produced is going to stay on the road for roughly 12 to 15 years.

Warrant 2: Cars generally have a long lifespan, meaning that a decision to switch to a hybrid car will make a long-term impact on pollution levels.

Data 3: Hybrid cars combine a gasoline engine with a battery-powered electric motor.

Warrant 3: This combination of technologies means that less pollution is produced. According to ineedtoknow.org "the hybrid engine of the Prius, made by Toyota, produces 90 percent fewer harmful emissions than a comparable gasoline engine."

Counterclaim: Instead of focusing on cars, which still encourages a culture of driving even if it cuts down on pollution, the nation should focus on building and encouraging use of mass transit systems.

Rebuttal: While mass transit is an environmentally sound idea that should be encouraged, it is not feasible in many rural and suburban areas, or for people who must commute to work; thus hybrid cars are a better solution for much of the nation's population.

7. Divide into three groups: claim supporters, opponents and independent audience. The supporters and opponents of the claim try to talk over the members of the independent group.

8. Divide into several groups. Each group prepares its own thesis (claim) and its presentation and tries to defend it

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EXAMS!

Problem based task

Environment and development of mankind