LANGUAGE LEARNING AND FUN WITH POWERPOINT Presentation Software

Microsoft PowerPoint is not only a tool for giving presentations. Presenters would use it instead of the whiteboard to enrich their lectures, projects, and assignments.

Some benefits of Using PowerPoint Presentations

1 Presentations hold the audience attention through the use of video, graphics and music. Because people today are technologically advanced, tools that involve technology such as slide shows increase their interaction.

2 Slide show tools allow you to incorporate text, video, audio and photos from the Internet easily. Also they allow you to share the most recent information using media that engage students.

3 Microsoft PowerPoint is available to most educators today. It is preinstalled in most PCs.

The use of PowerPoint in classrooms supports: Reading Writing Speaking Listening skills

Reading Skills They are augmented by the presentation of “Text on the screen”. * Students may be asked to follow directions in the presentation.

Writing Skills students are asked to create their own presentations. These presentations : *Should be written in the target language. *Should reflect students’ own interests.

Speaking Skills To develop these skills “audio files” Can be embedded into PowerPoint presentations Also, students can create links to other slides or Web sites

e.g. They can narrate a story that they have created and show it as a PowerPoint presentation.

Listening Skills Students can use also “audio files”. e.g. listening to oral texts that have been recorded and placed within a presentation.