Lesson video

Hi everybody and welcome to our lesson.

I cannot believe we're already at the final lesson of this unit.

In our lesson today, our learning is gonna be slightly different to what we've been doing before.

We're gonna be presenting our non chronological reports.

So let's get started.

In today's lesson, you will be presenting a non chronological report about tigers.

Here are some key words we will be using, presenting, projection, diction, eye contact, body language.

Brilliant work, well done.

Presenting involves speaking in front of others and listening to others.

Projection is using our voice to speak powerfully and clearly.

Diction involves pronouncing words clearly.

Eye contact involves looking into the eyes of the people in our audience.

Body language refers to how we use our posture and gestures to communicate meaning and feelings.

Today we're presenting a non chronological report about tigers.

Firstly, we will be preparing to present and then we will present a non chronological report.

Presenting can be an important final stage of the writing process.

Presenting can be a way of sharing information or showing a piece you have written to other people.

Presenting involves speaking in front of others and listening to others.

When presenting, we need to think about all of these, projection, diction, eye contact, body language, and pace.

Let's just go back and say those words together, projection, diction, eye contact, body language, pace.

Great work.

First of all, we're gonna focus on projection.

Projecting our voice involves speaking powerfully and clearly.

Projection is very important because our audience needs to be able to hear what we are saying.

When we're projecting our voices, we need to use deep breaths and use the muscles in our stomachs to help us speak.

This helps us project our voice around the room and speak at an appropriate volume so everyone in the audience can hear us.

So when we're thinking about projecting our voices, we're thinking about our stomach muscles, and really we're using our a muscle called our diaphragm.

If we use the strong muscles in our stomach to send our voice out around the room, this is a lot more powerful than simply thinking of our voice as something that comes from our throat.

It is also really helpful because it helps us avoid just shouting or getting higher pitched when we're trying to be actually louder.

Projecting our voice is not the same thing as shouting.

Okay, projection means speaking powerfully, and speaking at a volume that is appropriate for the size of the room and how far you need your voice to go.

When you think about projection, you just need to think about making sure every single person in the room can hear you clearly.

Projection or projecting involves which of these? Pause the video while you decide.

Well done if you spotted that projection involves using the stomach muscles when speaking and taking deep breaths before speaking.

It is not the same thing as shouting or speaking in a high pitched voice.

When presenting, we need to think about all of these, but now we're going to focus on diction.

Diction involves pronouncing words clearly.

Diction is very important because our audience needs to be able to understand what we are saying.

When we speak with clear diction, we take our time to pronounce our words carefully.

This may involve practising saying some tricky subject specific vocabulary so we can pronounce it clearly in our presentation.

And actually later on in our lesson, we are gonna come back to thinking about which words we might need to practise so that we can say them with clear diction during our presentation.

Speaking with clear diction is important because.

Pause the video while you decide.

Well done if you spotted that speaking with clear diction is important because it helps the audience understand the words we are saying, and it also helps us slow down and pronounce tricky words correctly, and it helps keep the audience engaged in our presentation.

That was a little trick one there, well actually, all three of those are correct and they're all equally important, because if our audience can't understand the words they're saying, they're not gonna be very engaged in our presentation.

When presenting, we need to think about all of these, but now we're going to focus on eye contact.

Eye contact involves looking into the eyes of the people in our audience.

Eye contact is very important because it helps us connect with our audience and for them to feel connected to us.

When the audience feels connected to us, they find what we have to say more interesting.

We may need to speak more slowly so that we have time to make eye contact with the members of our audience.

Now this might feel a little bit strange to really slow down and purposely be looking into the eyes of the people in our audience.

But trust me, it makes such a huge difference because your audience then will really feel like you are talking to them, not rather than just delivering a presentation at the room.

True or false, eye contact helps us connect with our audience.

Pause the video while you decide.

Well done if you spotted that this is true.

Now choose how to justify your answer.

Pause the video while you decide.

Well done if you spotted that the correct justification was a.

Eye contact helps us connect with our audience because it involves looking people in the eye as we are speaking to them.

It is not the same thing as just looking around the room and scanning the room.

Eye contact is really about making that personal connection with members of the audience.

When presenting, we need to be able to think about all of these, but now let's focus on body language.

Body language refers to how we use our posture and gestures to communicate meaning and feelings.

Body language is very important because it helps us look confident.

Here's a top tip, even if you don't feel very confident when you're presenting, if you look confident, as in you stand with strong posture and body language, you can almost fool yourself into believing that you're more confident.

Strong body language includes all of these, standing with our feet shoulder width apart, so we've got a strong stance, speaking with our chin up, that helps us avoid hunching our shoulders over or looking down at the ground or looking down at the piece of paper if we are reading off a page.

And standing with our shoulders back.

Again, standing with your shoulders back helps you look like you feel confident in that space and you own the room rather than hunching forward and trying to make yourself look smaller.

Strong body language includes which of these? Pause the video now while you decide.

Well done if you spotted that strong body language involves you speaking with our chin up, standing with our feet shoulder width apart and standing with our shoulders back.

Now c, which was speaking in a loud clear voice is really important, but that's more to do with projection than strong body language.

When presenting, we need to think about all of these.

Now let's focus on pace.

Pace refers to the speed at which we speak.

If we speak too quickly, our audience may not be able to hear clearly what we are saying.

If we speak too slowly, our audience may lose interest in what we are saying.

Successful presenters speak at a slow clear pace so that everyone can hear them.

Speaking at the correct pace will give us more time to project our voices, speak with clear diction and make eye contact.

When we're thinking about the pace that we should speak at when we're presenting, we probably want to speak slightly more slowly than we normally would if we were just having a normal conversation.

That's because we're sharing a lot of information with our audience, so we need to make sure we're speaking slowly enough so that they can really grasp and understand what we are saying.

Match the key, no, this is time for your task, so match the key aspects of successful presenting to their definitions.

So we've got projection, diction, eye contact, body language, and pace down the left hand side, and on the right we have the definitions of each.

Pause the video now while you match each aspect of successful presenting to its definition.

Well done.

Projection involves speaking powerfully, clearly, and at an appropriate volume.

Diction involves pronouncing all our words clearly.

Eye contact involves looking audience members in the eye.

Body language refers to our posture, stance and gestures which help convey meaning and emotions.

And finally, pace is the speed at which we speak.

Great work everyone.

Now that we have prepared to present, we're going to move on to the second part of our lesson now, which is presenting a non chronological report.

We're are not familiar with the aspects of effective presenting, projection, diction, eye contact, body language, and pace.

We're going to go back to diction.

Diction involves pronouncing words clearly.

This may involve practising saying some tricky vocabulary so we can pronounce it clearly in our presentation.

We're gonna spend a little bit of time now working on that.

Some subject specific vocabulary might be tricky to say.

Some of these words might be polysyllabic, that means that they have several syllables.

They might be words we don't use often.

If we identify which words are tricky to say in our report, we can practise saying them aloud.

This will help us develop clear diction when saying these words and help us prepare for successful presenting.

Because remember, when you come on to presenting, you are going to have lots of different things to think about, you wanna think about your projection, you want to think about your stance, making sure your shoulders are back, your chin is up, that you're not speaking too quickly.

So if we can make it a little bit more comfortable and automatic for us to say some tricky words before we present, by giving that time to practise those words, that's gonna help us a lot, 'cause we won't need to think so much about our pronunciation of those words when we are in our presentation.

So for task B, the first thing you're going to do is reread your non chronological reports, and then you're going to circle any words that you find tricky to pronounce and practise saying them aloud.

But before you do that, we're gonna do one together.

Let's read through my introduction.

Introduction.

Tigers are nocturnal, distinctive looking mammals that belong to the felidae family.

These highly adapted felines are most commonly found in India, Asia, and they are deadly apex predators that can reach running speeds of up to 65 kilometres per hour.

Throughout this report, you will learn further detail about these cats' fascinating adaptations, diet and habitat.

Now if I go through my introduction and circle some of the words that I know I might find a little bit tricky to say when I'm in the midst of my presentation.

These are the ones that I've identified.

Distinctive looking.

Felidae.

Apex predators.

Well done.

One strategy that I find quite helpful when I'm practising saying these words is clapping the syllables.

So let's start with distinctive looking.

Distinctive looking.

(clapping hands) Your turn.

Well done, felidae.

Your turn.

Great.

Apex predators.

(clapping hands) Your turn.

Well done.

Now let's read my diet section together.

What do tigers diets consist of? Tigers which are carnivorous eat a diet that includes a range of different prey.

They primarily consume deer, birds, fish, and boar.

Due to the fact that these felines are nocturnal, they usually feed at nighttime.

Fascinatingly, tiger's adaptations enable them to hunt and consume their prey.

These adaptations are therefore vital to these cats' survival.

Let's practise saying these words together, clap the syllables along with me, carnivorous.

(clapping hands) Great.

And next we've got, fascinatingly.

(clapping hands) Well done.

Now we're not gonna read through the whole of my adaptation section, but we're just going to pull out some of these words.

Let's clap them through together, intriguing.

(clapping hands) Camouflaged.

(clapping hands) Hypersensitive.

(clapping hands) Well done.

And into my conclusion, here are some of the key words I'm going to find tricky, carnivorous.

(clapping hands) Deforestation.

(clapping hands) Endangered.

(clapping hands) Conservation.

(clapping hands) Well done.

Thank you for joining in with me with clapping out the syllables.

Now pause the video while you go back and reread your non chronological report, and circle any tricky words.

Make sure to practise saying the tricky words aloud.

Pause the video while you do that.

Well done.

Hopefully you find it really helpful to go through and practise saying those words aloud.

Now we're going to have a practise of presenting the introductions of our reports.

First of all, I'm going to present my introduction.

So I'm going to think about how I am sitting, I'm going to think about projecting my voice, making sure my shoulders are back and my chin is up, and I speak at a slow pace so everyone can understand me.

Introduction.

Tigers are nocturnal, distinctive looking mammals that belong to the felidae family.

These highly adapted felines are most commonly found in India, Asia, and they are deadly apex predators that can reach running speeds of up to 65 kilometres per hour.

Throughout this report, you will learn further detail about these cats' fascinating adaptations, diet, and habitat.

Did you notice when I was presenting there, I really focused on keeping my shoulders back, my chin up, speaking slowly and clearly, but also I took deep breaths before each sentence so that I could really use my diaphragm in my stomach to help me project my voice from my stomach.

Now it's your turn.

You're going to practise presenting your introduction.

Make sure you use this checklist, thinking about your projection, diction, eye contact, body language, and peace.

Pause the video while you do that.

Well done.

I hope that you find having the checklist there really helpful.

We are now going to present our non chronological reports.

We can use the presenting checklist to help us, project your voice so all members of the audience can hear you, speak with clear diction so your audience can understand every word you say.

Make eye contact with audience members in order to form connections with them as you speak.

Use strong body language to convey the information confidently, and speak at a slow, clear pace.

The first part of your task is going to be to present the introduction and first section of your non chronological report.

So that's your introduction and the diet section.

Remember to use the presenting checklist, pause the video while you do that.

Well done everyone.

Hopefully you find that to be a really interesting exercise.

Now that we've done the first half of our presentation, I'd like you to assess where you are at in your presenting skills.

Were there some elements of the presentation that came quite naturally to you, such as projecting your voice or having clear diction after we've spent that time practising those words? But were there some elements that you find a bit tricky? Did you find it was quite difficult to keep your eyes up and focused on your audience members and making eye contact when really you just wanted to read your sheet? Or did you find that you hunched over a little bit without meaning to? Think about which elements of your presentation were strengths and which areas you want to develop? And now this brings us into our second half of our task, which is presenting the second section, so the adaptation section and the conclusion of your non chronological report, and use the checklist to help you.

Pause the video while you do that.

Well done everyone.

So now that we have finished the second half of our presentation, did you notice that some elements of presenting came a little bit easier in the second time around? That now brings us to the end of our lesson.

Throughout our lesson today, we have been presenting a non chronological report about tigers.

Effective presenting involves projecting our voices, speaking with clear diction, making eye contact with the audience, and using strong body language when speaking.

Speaking at a calm slow pace helps us remember to use the above presenting techniques.

Some words are tricky to say, by identifying these words and practising saying them beforehand, we make it easier to pronounce them with clear diction when it comes to presenting.

I hope you really enjoyed the presenting aspect of this unit.

It's a little bit different from the other things we've been doing, but it's really, really important for us to get the opportunity to share our learning with other people.

Well done.