Oral Presentation

Achievement Standard: 90725 v2

Construct and deliver an oral presentation

Credits: 4

In this activity you will:

· construct and deliver a presentation on a literature topic

· integrate a range of oral and visual language techniques

Here are some requirements

Careful structure

Carefully planned delivery techniques such as:

v Oral and visual language techniques including those below

v Stance

v Gesture

Voice: tone, volume, pace and stress

v Overhead projector

v PowerPoint presentation

v Whiteboard

v Posters

v Video or DVD,

v Dramatisations

v Group or whole class activities. (They shouldn’t dominate and must be efficiently facilitated.)

v You may use audio / visual resources as required.

v Photocopied resources

v Props or other items

As you construct your presentation check with me that the techniques and resources you plan to use in various parts of your presentation are suitable and appropriate for your purpose.

Length: at least six minutes long and probably longer if group work is included. (Please keep it short – no longer than 20 minutes!)

Developing your topic

In consultation with your teacher select a literature topic which interests you. The most sensible topic for your presentation is your literary theme research topic but you can talk on any other aspect of literature or even on one of our three texts, Crash, The Merchant of Venice and The Lovely Bones.

You have looked at those presentations from last year which gained Merit/Excellence and have been moderated and approved. These presentations were well constructed and interesting because they involved the audience and were well structured and thought out. All of them used dramatisations, or bold Powerpoints or props … in other words a variety of oral and visual techniques to convey ideas to the audience in an engaging manner!

PRESENTATION PLANNING BASED ON YOUR RESEARCH

Look at the answers to your three or four key questions which will of course include some interesting conclusions. These three or four points will be the points you make in your presentation. You can even present them as questions on PowerPoint and then deliver your answers and analysis in your ‘speech’.

POSSIBLE PRESENTATION TOPICS DEVELOPED FROM ONE LITERARY TEXT COULD INCLUDE

Crash

· The role of a key production technique

· The issue of race

· The impact of setting and society

The Merchant of Venice

· Anti-Semitism in Shakespeare’s time

· The speeches of Shylock

· Comedy or tragedy?

The Lovely Bones

· The use of symbols

· The psychology of the book

· The first person narrator

Remember that your research is due at the end of term. It would pay you to present your research because preparing the presentation will help you complete the research.

If you do one of the single text topics you will have to finish your research on top of that. However, you also need to choose a topic that helps you achieve your personal best.

A full copy of the assessment activity from TKI is one the teacher’s desk for you to read.

	Criteria	What they mean
Achievement	Construct and deliver a presentation which communicates with an audience. Develop and support idea(s). Use a range of appropriate presentation techniques for a specific audience and purpose.	This means that you have to include the audience in some way or at least show them what you mean through oral and visual techniques You must have ideas that you explain and support with examples/quotations Your purpose is really to teach your class so make them interested by using more than one technique
Merit	Construct and deliver a presentation which communicates effectively with an audience. Develop and support detailed idea(s). Combine a range of appropriate presentation techniques for a specific audience and purpose.	This means that you are careful to include the audience and make your message clear to them as above. You achieve this well. You include plenty of examples and apt quotations to expand on your ideas and give evidence for them. Your techniques are combined well and are not too random and messy
Excellence	Construct and deliver an effective presentation which convinces and / or challenges an audience. Develop and support detailed idea(s), showing insight and / or originality. Integrate a range of appropriate presentation techniques for a specific audience and purpose.	Your presentation really makes the class think. It has depth and is persuasive. You show a lot of perception or original thought in your conclusions. Your techniques slot into each other nicely and work seamlessly together to get youR point across.

To sum up

· To gain at least Achieved you need to have some solid ideas and use a range of techniques (say 3 as a minimum) to convey them. Reading from a sheet of paper or cue cards is not adequate at this level but you can have paper or cards as support. Remember that you are teaching the class.

· If you are nervous about speeches, you will find this task less nerve-wracking because you can use props like the data projector or the whiteboard to break up the speaking.

· You may enlist the help of other students to run the DVD player for you or for dramatisations etc