Lesson video

Hello, everyone.

It's Mr. Brown here with your English lesson, and I'm so excited because we are going to be delivering a presentation.

We are going to be presenting the non-chronological report on nocturnal animals that we've been writing, so presenting something a bit different.

I'm really excited to see how you get on.

Let's go for it.

The outcome for today's lesson is, I can present a non-chronological report on nocturnal animals.

And here are the key words, presenting, audience, volume, rehearsing.

Might be some new words that you haven't encountered before, so let's say those together.

First, I'll say the word and then you repeat.

Presenting.

Audience.

Volume.

Rehearsing.

Excellent work, well done.

These are words that you will encounter in today's lesson.

Here's the lesson outline for our lesson on delivering a presentation of a non-chronological report about nocturnal animals.

We will start by looking at preparing to present, and then we'll move on to presenting a non-chronological report.

Presenting.

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

Presenting is a way of sharing information or showing something you have written to other people.

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

So you might be presenting but you might also be listening to someone else present.

When you are presenting, you should remember that you are doing this for an audience.

You wouldn't be presenting for yourself.

You are presenting for the benefit of an audience.

Now, an audience is a group of people gathered together to listen to and watch a presentation, performance, or speech.

Your most important task when presenting is to make sure the audience can hear and understand you.

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

Let's first look at volume.

That's one of our key words.

Volume is how loud or quiet a sound is.

In the context of our lesson today, you speaking is the sound.

So you delivering your presentation and your speech, that's the sound that we are looking at.

It's important that when we present, we speak at an appropriate volume.

We must speak loudly enough so that the audience can hear but must not shout, but then at the same time, you shouldn't be too quiet either.

So it's a balance.

We're trying to get the balance between not being too loud and not being too quiet.

If you whisper, mumble, or mutter your words, your audience will not be able to hear your presentation.

For example, if I delivered that sentence as, if you whisper, mumble, or mutter your words, your audience not be able to hear you presentation.

That wouldn't be very good, would it? You need to make sure you're speaking loudly and clearly.

True or false? When we present to an audience, we should mutter and speak quietly.

Is that true or is that false? Pause the video and decide now.

Welcome back, everyone.

Let's see if you were right.

When we present to an audience, we should mutter and speak quietly, absolutely not.

We should not mutter and we should not speak quietly, so that is false.

Well done if you said false.

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

Let's focus now on eye contact.

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

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

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

Building that connection between you and the audience is really important.

It will help them to trust you and help them to know that everything that you are saying is accurate, factual.

If you're holding a piece of paper, it's important that you are looking up at the audience as you read.

You do not want to be just facing the piece of paper and reading like this, so they can't see your eyes.

You want to make sure you are looking up and making eye contact.

Eye contact involves looking directly into the, what? Let's check your understanding on this.

Eye contact involves looking directly into the eyes of the people in the audience, sky, ground? A, B, or C? Does eye contact involve looking directly into the eyes of the people in the audience? That's A.

B, sky, or C, ground.

Pause the video and decide for yourself now.

Welcome back, everyone.

Let's see if you got this correct.

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

Well done.

We do not want to be looking up to the sky or down to the ground, looking into the eyes of the people in the audience.

Well done if you said A.

Let's think about body language.

Body language refers to how we hold ourselves and parts of our body when we're presenting.

Body language helps others understand how you feel and what you're saying even if you don't say a word.

The way that you are presenting yourself and the way you are holding your body can still communicate with the audience even when you're not speaking.

Body language is very important because it helps us look confident, to look like we know what we are doing, we know what we're talking about, we are professional.

Strong body language includes all of these, standing with our feet shoulder-width apart.

So your feet flat on the ground, stand with shoulder-width apart, so not having your feet tightly pressed together, not too far apart.

Speaking with our chin up, so we are not speaking down like this.

We're speaking with our chin up.

We are loud and we are proud.

Standing with our shoulders back.

Let me make sure my shoulders are back.

Okay, chin up, shoulders back.

Good, we don't want to be all hunched over like this, yep.

When presenting, confident body language includes, which of these? A, speaking with our chin up, B, standing with our shoulders back, C, hunching our shoulders, which is like this, or D, standing with our feet shoulder-width apart.

Could be multiple correct answers here.

Pause the video and decide which answers you think are correct now.

Welcome back, everyone.

Let's see how you got on.

When presenting, confident body language includes speaking with our chin up, standing with our shoulders back, and standing with our feet shoulder-width apart.

Well done if you said A, B, and D.

Let's finally look at pace.

Pace refers to the speed at which we speak.

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

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

Speaking at the correct pace will give us more time to use an appropriate volume.

Speak with clear diction and make eye contact.

So the pace could hold the key for everything else.

Similarly to when we talked about volume, pace is a balancing act.

You do not want to speak too quick, but you do not want to speak too slow.

If you are unsure, getting someone to listen to you and give you feedback will help you to be able to work out what the right pace is.

Let's have a go to practise task.

I would like you to match the key aspects of successful presenting to their definitions.

We have volume, eye contact, body language, and pace, and your job is to decide which one is the speed at which we speak, which one is our posture, stance, and gestures which help convey meaning and emotions, which one is how quiet or loud a sound is, and which one is looking audience members in the eye.

Pause the video and match these successful presenting tips to their definitions.

Over to you.

Welcome back, everyone.

Did you manage to match the key aspects of successful presenting to their definitions? Let's find out.

So we know that volume is how quiet or loud a sound is, and when we're presenting, the sound is you, you speaking.

Eye contact, looking audience members in the eye.

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

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

Well done if you manage to match all of those correctly.

Let's move on to presenting a non-chronological report.

Rehearsing, that was one of our key words, wasn't it? Rehearsing is when you practise something before you perform in order to get better at it.

So the rehearsal process is about improving.

If you make a mistake when you're rehearsing, you can learn from this to make your performance even better.

Mistakes during rehearsals are brilliant.

They will help us to learn to then not make that mistake when it's the real thing.

When you rehearse, try to think about these things like you would when you're performing in front of an audience, volume, eye contact, body language, and pace.

When we're rehearsing, it's a chance for us to really think about those things to get them right so that when we can do the real thing, the real presentation, we've practised already, we've rehearsed, and it all comes naturally.

We are now very familiar with the aspects of effective presenting.

One more time, volume, eye contact, body language, pace.

In fact, let's say them all together, volume, eye contact, body language, pace.

However, we can prepare ourselves by rehearsing before we deliver our presentation to the audience.

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

Now, some subject-specific vocabulary might be tricky to say.

There might be words we don't use often.

They might not be decodable, so we can't use our phonic knowledge.

It's important to practise saying these types of words before we present them to others.

Some words, some subject-specific vocabulary can be very tricky to say.

They can be longer words and words we don't use often, so practising them, practising getting our lips around those words will make such a difference when it comes to presenting.

Here, we can see our non-chronological reports in its entirety, everything from the title to the introduction, section one and section two.

This report will be filled with subject-specific vocabulary that we might need to practise.

Let's have a look at the introduction, and you can see there's words like adaptations and habitat.

These are not words that I would expect you to be using in the playground, so you will need to practise them.

Let's have a practise.

I'll say the word and you repeat it back to me.

Adaptations.

Good.

Next one, habitat.

Very good.

Let's have a look at the brilliant bats section, and we've got some really tricky subject-specific vocabulary.

Echolocation and leathery, let's practise those words.

Echolocation.

Good.

That's a huge word, and definitely a word that I don't think we use very often.

The next one, leathery.

Very nice.

Leathery and echolocation, good practising , good rehearsing.

Finally, let's look at the amazing hedgehogs section, and we have creatures and predators.

Let's practise those.

Creatures.

Very good.

Predators.

Brilliant, really, really nice.

I think you are doing a great job at rehearsing that subject-specific vocabulary.

Some of the adjectives in our report can be difficult to say.

Rehearse saying them out loud with a partner, and then think, have you pronounced them correctly? Let's have a look.

We have informative, fascinating, extraordinary, incredible.

These are all adjectives that you might be using in your report.

When you're presenting, you need to say these very clearly, you need to pronounce them correctly, informative, fascinating, extraordinary, incredible.

Have a go with a friend, seeing if you can say these correctly.

Over to you.

Pause the video and have a go now.

Welcome back.

Okay, let me just say them one more time, and you can give me a thumbs up if that was how you pronounced the word.

Informative.

Fascinating.

Extraordinary.

Incredible.

It's now time for me to have a go at practising presenting an introduction.

I am going to try and remember all of the things we've covered in the lesson so far.

I know I want to try and make good eye contact.

I know I want to make sure my shoulders are back, my body language is good.

I'm speaking at a nice volume, and my pace is not too fast and not too slow.

Okay, let's have a go.

Introduction.

Were you aware that there are animals that sleep during the day and are awake at night? Animals that do this are called nocturnal.

This informative report will teach you all about bats and hedgehogs, and their adaptations and habitat.

Read on to find out more about these fascinating creatures.

Okay, what did you think? I really tried to make sure that my pace was not too fast and that the key information, I pulled the key parts.

I went quite slow to make sure that those important words were received by the audience.

So I actually varied my pace a little bit.

My volume, I felt, was pretty good, hope you don't think I was too loud or too quiet, and I tried to make as much eye contact as I could.

Now, that was hard because I had to read what I was about to say, so you might have seen my eyes darts down and then back.

That's absolutely fine to do.

You will need to look at the piece of paper that you are reading from, but you just need to keep reading ahead as tiny bit, remembering what the rest of the sentence has and then delivering that to the audience.

So it's time for you to have a go.

I'd like you to practise presenting your introduction and ensure you use the tick list below, volume, eye contact, body language, pace.

These are the things to keep in mind when you are rehearsing, when you are practising.

So pause the video and have a rehearse, have a practise.

Take your time, take as long as you need.

Practise presenting your introduction now.

Welcome back, everyone.

I hope you found that really helpful.

I hope that the process of rehearsing has put you in a good position to be able to deliver a presentation of the whole report because that's what we're doing now.

I would like you to present the introduction and both sections of your non-chronological report to an audience.

Remember to speak at a volume that ensures all members of the audience can hear you, so everyone needs to hear what you're saying.

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

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

Over to you.

Pause the video and have a go now.

Welcome back, everyone.

Let's just take a moment to double check that you did all of these things.

Did you speak at a volume that ensured all members of the audience could hear you? Did you make eye contact with audience members in order to form connections with them? Did you use strong body language to convey the information confidently? And did you speak at a slow, clear pace? I want you to now take a moment to really think, did you do all of these things? If you didn't, it's absolutely fine.

You may want to have another go, or you remember for next time that this is an area you need to focus on because to do all four of these is really challenging, but it's a challenge I know that you are capable of achieving.

Let's summarise our learning from today's lesson.

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

Presentations are effective ways to share information.

Effective presenting involves using appropriate volume, making eye contact with the audience, and using strong body language when speaking.

Rehearsing is when you practise something before you perform in order to get better at it.

Excellent work.

I will see you again very soon.