
Introduce essential presentation skills for ESL learners, covering styles, listening, Q&A, body language, and cultural aspects, with emphasis on using English to generate ideas and boost confidence.
Embrace mistakes as fuel for growth through practice, ask what, where, who, when, why, and how to improve, and remember Thomas Edison’s persistence through many failures.
Learn how to persuade through indirect messaging, using audience insight and subtle cues to guide decisions, as shown by positioning options like the red pen over the blue.
Explore how silence conveys messages in professional communication, showing that not speaking can speak louder than words and that we constantly send silent messages.
Learn how body language signals thoughts and feelings through posture, crossed arms, spine alignment, and facial cues, and how gender and context affect interpretation.
Explore body language and learning styles - kinaesthetic, auditory, and visual - and learn how understanding yourself and others improves communication, management, and leadership in presentations.
Explore kinesthetic, auditory, visual, and digital learning styles and how to engage each with concrete facts, numbers, and figures in professional presentations.
Presenting in both interpersonal and professional situations, communications in international settings, public speaking.
Objectives: Students will be able to…
- To gain appropriate verbal and non-verbal communication skills in order to actively participate in different kinds of professional and interpersonal communication.
- Organize and lead discussions in public events.
- Present and argue points of view when speaking in public.
- Improve listening and speaking skills.
- To build confidence in speaking and expressing opinions in international settings.
- Prepare and deliver clear, well-organized, effective professional presentations in English. This includes: selecting a topic, identifying a clear purpose, analysing the audience, researching information, selecting support material, structuring and organizing a presentation, as well as focusing on effective delivery and ability to handle questions from an audience.
- Increase confidence and cross-cultural awareness in using English in a professional and commercial environment.