Listening and Note-taking Test Practice
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Exercises- listening test-Active Learner 2 - Oral Presentations
(QT)
Listen to a discussion about Academic Presentations.
Provide the missing information.
1. Duration of a presentation:
Less than 15 minutes.
2. Duration for audience questions:
5 minutes per session.
3. Purpose of visual aids and text
Enhance the talk.
4. The topic has to be
User friendly / and engage the
audience.
5. Mention two pitfalls (hidden difficulties)
Over/Under estimate time needed.
over / under prepare.
Poor visual aids.
Use small font typeface or as
overhead.
Non-legible printing Or photocopy
materials from books (unappropriated).
6. Gantal’s topic was :
On Advertising.
7. Research he used was from
Books from India And Internet.
8. The tutor will be looking for
Good language while delivering the presentation.
Topic should interest the audience.
9. Tutor’s assessment
Mention 2 good points
of Gantal’s presentation
He have a great Knowledge about the
topic .
The topic is enhanced by tools and
examples he used.
Mention 2 weak parts
of Gantal’s presentation
He Prepare handout and pass it to
audience before the presentation which might empty interest.
His overhead font size is
very small.
10. WRAP-UP
Complete. Follow the example.
Successful presentations regarding RESEARCH
Example: the speaker needs to conduct small research
Successful presentations regarding TOOLS
Deliver many tools but make sure
not to distract attention of audience.
Successful presentations regarding SPEED
Speed is very important when delivering the speech to fast audience will switch
off and will not follow the Speaker.
