- English II Presentation and Discussion
Wednesday 9:00 Class
Homework
September 2021 - January 2022 Instructor: Dennis Riches
The next three classes this month (12/08, 12/15, 12/22) will be joint sessions with other classes. These classes will be held remotely on Zoom, so DON'T COME TO THE CLASSROOM on those days. Check your email and WebClass for the schedule of presenters on those three days.
Some students are late in
handing in the first drafts of their presentations. Send them as
soon as possible.
Remember the advice given in
class today when we practiced some of the presentations:
Use a good microphone.
Make sure your room is quiet.
Speak in a loud, strong voice.
When you are an audience member, ask questions about content, or
about the presenter's opinion about the subject.
The presenter can also ask questions to the class.
Prepare vocabulary explanations.
Check pronunciation of difficult words.
Practice reading your script many times and remember it as much as
possible.
Don’t read off a small screen like a smartphone. Print it on paper
in a large font.
There will be no class on
November 24th. The next class will be on December 1st. Finish the
first draft of your final project: a presentation about a famous
person in history. The deadline for the
first draft is November 17th. On December 1st, we will start
practicing the presentations in class.
The average length of the presentation should be about eight to ten slides, and for each slide you should write about 50 to 100 words of narration in the notes section of the slide. Don't put too many words in the slides, but be sure to put a few key words in each slide to help your audience understand. Make the text bold and large enough for your audience to see it clearly. Send the PowerPoint file to the teacher by email as an attachment file.
We practiced linking and stress on November 17th, and we will do it again next time on December 1st. To do your presentation well, you need to practice it many times before you perform it in the classroom. You can use these videos to develop your speaking skills:
How to Relax Your Accent Part 1: Consonant to vowel linkingHow to Relax your Accent Part 2: Consonant Linking
Finish the first draft of
your final project: a presentation about a famous person in
history. The deadline for the first draft is November 17th.
The average length of the
presentation should be about ten slides, and for each slide you
should speak about 50 to 100 words. Don't put too many words in
the slides, but be sure to put a few key words in each slide to
help your audience understand. Make the text bold and large enough
for your audience to see it clearly.
The next class will be on November 10th.
Begin work on your final
project: a presentation about a famous person in history. The
deadline for the first draft is November 17th.
You can review the video
lecture about Lincoln and Kennedy. The video is here,
and the transcript and exercises are here.
In the next class you will write a summary and practice giving a
spoken summary of the lecture.
Begin work on your final project: a presentation about a famous person in history. The deadline for the first draft is November 17th. In December, we will perform the presentations in front of students from another class, so it is important that you prepare your presentation quickly.
Use the Summary Writing Guide. We will use this in future lessons, so bring a hard copy of it to the classes.
There have been two
homework assignments so far. The first was a summary of the
lecture about informal and formal language. The second was a
summary of the differences and similarities between African
and Asian elephants. If I haven't checked your homework, give
it to me soon.
October 13, 2021 Homework
Begin work on your final project: a presentation about a famous person in history.
Study the Summary Writing Guide. We will use this in future lessons.
Download the transcript
and exercises for the lecture about two types of
elephants. Use this video
to practice reading the lecture aloud.
Review the two videos we watched about how to use a teleprompter to practice reading aloud:
This is a link to a
teleprompter you can use on a computer (in a browser, with
an internet connection).
This is a link to free teleprompter software that you can install on your computer. There are also many teleprompter apps that you can find for Apple and Android tablets and smartphones.
October 6, 2021 Homework
1. Download the transcript and exercises for the video about formal and informal language. Do the summary on page 7. We didn't finish it last week, so this is the homework again.
2. Decide the subject of
your presentation and begin work on it now.
September 29, 2021 Homework
1. Download the
transcript and exercises for the video about formal and
informal language. The link goes to the revised and corrected
version of the transcript, so don't use the version you
downloaded before. Write your original summary on page 7. Don't
copy the example of a summary on page 8. Look at page 8 after
you finish your summary.
2. Choose the subject of your final presentation (about a famous person in history).
3. The next class on
October 6th will be held on campus.
September 22, 2021 Homework
1. Download the transcript and exercises for the video about formal and informal language.
2. Practice reading aloud of the speech about formal and informal language. Use this video to practice. After you listen to the teacher's voice reading it, turn off the audio and read the text in the video. Try to read at a normal pace in a strong voice with stress variation and linking of words.
3. Choose the subject of your final presentation (about a famous person in history).