1. Language skills

2. Business language skills Written reports, letters, essays, memos, notes... Spoken presentations, small talk, meetings, negotiations

3. Presentations (RB: 80 – 90, MK: 181 – 184) Why should we care? sales presentations talks at conferences lectures board meetings... & ORGANIZE YOUR TALK 4th Contest in Presentation Skills (early March 2016) http://www.efzg.unizg.hr/default.aspx?id=22256

4. Presentations (RB: 80 – 90, MK: 181 – 184) DISCUSS your personal experience: a)Giving a presentation b)Listening to a presentation

5. How to improve your presentations? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bt8YFCveNpY Watch and get ready to comment Coach’s comment? The most effective piece of advice given? Content vs. delivery

6. Presentations: -Preparation (content, structure, visuals) -Delivery

7. Top ten mistakes speakers make 1 Lack of preparation / Focus 2 Speaking too long 3 Not knowing the audience 4 Projecting the wrong image 5 Using visual aids ineffectively 6 Data Dump / Starting with detail 7 Using inappropriate humor 8 Speaking in a monotone 9 Speaker-centered / No relationship with the audience 10 Offering weak evidence http://www.americanpressinstitute.org/pages/resources/2004/11/top_ten_mistakes_speakers_make/

8. Top ten mistakes speakers make 1 Lack of preparation / Focus 2 Speaking too long 3 Not knowing the audience 4 Projecting the wrong image 5 Using visual aids ineffectively 6 Data Dump / Starting with detail 7 Using inappropriate humor 8 Speaking in a monotone 9 Speaker-centered / No relationship with the audience 10 Offering weak evidence http://www.americanpressinstitute.org/pages/resources/2004/11/top_ten_mistakes_speakers_make/

9. Top ten mistakes speakers make 1 Lack of preparation / Focus 2 Speaking too long 3 Not knowing the audience 4 Projecting the wrong image 5 Using visual aids ineffectively 6 Data Dump / Starting with detail 7 Using inappropriate humor 8 Speaking in a monotone 9 Speaker-centered / No relationship with the audience 10 Offering weak evidence http://www.americanpressinstitute.org/pages/resources/2004/11/top_ten_mistakes_speakers_make/

10. Preparation -purposeWHY? -audienceTO WHOM? -contentWHAT? -brainstorming, research -selection -grouping, sequencing, organisation -structure HOW?... tell your audience what you are going to say, say it, then tell the audience what you have said. - visuals -REHEARSING, rehearsing, rehearsing INTRO BODY CONCLUSION

11. Structure Introduction –welcome your audience –introduce your subject –outline your structure –give instructions about questions Body –the “real” presentation (structure, signalling, summarising) Conclusion –recap, conclude, end, handle questions Example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CxeppcxE2v8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CxeppcxE2v8