As you prepare for your presentations this week, please listen to this 5-minute interview from VOA News. Reporters Avi Arditti and Rosanne Skirble interview Nina Weinstein, an English teacher, about suggestions—”tips and tricks”—she gives students for giving oral presentations.
Please bring the following questions to class, typed and printed out. And of course please use these suggestions when you present this week!
Questions for listening:
- Fill in the blanks (each blank = one word): “The most important part of any speech is you, Nina says. But for the ___________, the focus is not you but the ____________ they are there to get.”
- Ms. Weinstein suggests two effective ways to be better understood. The first is to “cut your speed” by _______, and the second is to do what with your mouth? How does she say these two changes can make you better understood?
- How does Ms. Weinstein suggest you make notes for your presentation and plan what you’ll say?
- What are two suggestions Ms. Weinstein gives for practicing your presentation?
- During the presentation what should you do with your gaze?
- Rosanne Skirble asks Ms. Weinstein, “How do you think that by doing these kinds of oral presentations in the classroom can help them with their English language learning outside the classroom?” What is Ms. Weinstein’s explanation?
- Fill in the blanks (each blank = one word): “ I think when we learn another language we know that we’re ____________ ____________ ____________. We’re trying our ____________ and we’re ____________ so many different ____________ ____________ and so forth.”