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  1. Student presentations

    Students identify key stages of the example presentation - greeting, introduction, main points in order of importance, conclusion. Focus on linking and signalling words ('Next…', 'Now I'd like you to look at…', etc.). Students underline these in the transcript/place them in the correct order.

  2. ESL Presentation Topics: 12 Mini Presentations

    ESL Presentation Topics: 12 Mini Presentations. ESL presentation topics for intermediate and upper intermediate students. Great as a warm-up or a speaking lesson. You can use the slideshow and share your screen on Zoom or other app when teaching online. Just click on the full screen option in the top right corner of the slideshow.

  3. Presentation Projects Ideas ESL/EFL Students

    Plus, it's fun to hear what students have to say. Here are my top presentation projects for ESL/EFL students. Basic speech (not recommended!) Presentation, then discussion time. Poster presentation. Making a movie. PowerPoint presentation. Impromptu presentation. Teaching the class how to do something.

  4. Oral presentation

    Use short, simple sentences to express your ideas clearly. Pause from time to time and don't speak too quickly. This allows the listener to understand your ideas. Include a short pause after each idea. Speak clearly and at the right volume. Have your notes ready in case you forget anything. Practise your presentation.

  5. 20 Presentation Tips for Your ESL Students

    Overcome your nerves. Establish audience rapport. Be aware of your body language. Understand cultural differences. Maintain interest by varying the speed, volume and pitch of your voice. Deal with listeners' questions politely. Respond to your audience positively. These tips are condensed from Presentations in English.

  6. Presentation Ideas for ESL Students

    2) Demonstrate rude behavior. Bring a student to the front of the class for a role play. Ask the student to tell you a story about their childhood. As they speak to you, yawn, look around, play on your smart phone, sigh, give every sign that you don't really care. When the student finishes, ask the speaker how he felt about your behavior.

  7. ESL Presentation Rubric

    ESL Presentation Rubric. In-class presentations are a great way to encourage a number of English communicative skills in a realistic task that provides students not only help with their English skills but prepares them in a broader way for future education and work situations. Grading these presentations can be tricky, as there are many ...

  8. Presentation Skills Lesson Plans

    Business. In this lesson about business presentations in English, students discuss presentation structures in depth, watch a video with tips on giving presentations, and learn useful words and phrases related to the topic. The lesson is the first of the three-part series of lessons about delivering presentations. Unlimited Plan Show.

  9. Teaching Presentation Skills to EFL Students

    The 3X3X3 Model. I like to summarise the essentials of what I teach in my presentations classes this way: 1) There are 3 parts to your presentation: Introduction-Body- Conclusion. 2) There should be three main points to the body of your presentation: "Smoking is bad for you because…". It's addictive.

  10. English Speaking Practice Through Presentations

    Asking students to give presentations has the following advantages: it gives the presenting student a good opportunity to practise unaided speaking. it gives the other students good listening practice. it increases the presenting student's confidence when using English. it can be good practice for the real situation for those students who may ...

  11. Taking the Floor: Oral Presentations in EFL Classrooms

    presentations in the EFL classroom. This article emphasizes the. theoretical and practical aspects addressed in the aforementioned. literature and discusses important (and new) insights and ...

  12. Presentation, Practice, and Production in the EFL Class

    Presentation means that, before we expect students to use language or structure, we present it to them. This is true in an ESL class in an English-speaking society, where students are surrounded by the language. It is all the more true in an EFL class where English language input for students is probably much less.

  13. Presentations: ESL/EFL Lesson Plan and Worksheet

    Students briefly discuss their own experiences of presentations before identifying types of diagrams often used in presentations and their functions. They listen to a business presentation and identify and practise a range of functional language for structuring presentations. The lesson includes vocabulary development and a presentation ...

  14. King

    Oral presentation is an effective communicative activity that has been widely adopted by EFL conversation teachers to promote oral proficiency. However, when oral presentations are assigned in class, the teacher will get either complete silence or grumbles from students who find the idea of oral presentations frustrating and intimidating.

  15. Teaching Effective Presentation Skills to ESL / EFL Students

    This article discusses some practical techniques that ESL/EFL teachers can use in teaching effective academic. presentation skills. It is suggested that macro organization, micro organization ...

  16. Conversation Class Lesson Plan: A Step-by-Step Guide for ...

    After one time around the class, add a theme. If your theme is kitchen utensils, you'd start with "spoon," the first student would continue with "napkin" and so on. 2. ESL Conversation Presentation Activity. The presentation stage is where your lesson really begins. Visual aids are the best form of mental stimulation for most students ...

  17. PDF Poster Presentations in Young Adults' EFL Classes

    the procedure of poster design and presentation following a task-based language teaching approach in an English-as-a-foreign-language class at an educational center in Vietnam. It will also examine the successes and challenges of applying poster presentations in EFL classrooms. Informal interviews with the students indicated that poster

  18. The Impact of Class Presentation on EFL Learners ...

    The impact of oral presentation on fluency and accuracy of Iranian EFL learners' speaking. Journal of Applied Linguistics and Language Research, 2(5), 114-123. Recommended publications

  19. PDF EFL students' perceptions of oral presentations: Implications for

    In this study, we investigated preparatory class students' perceptions of oral presentations and their functions in EFL learning and teaching in connection with language ability, speech anxiety, and language learning motivation. Our participants were 29 adult EFL students in two intact classes attending a mandatory English

  20. (PDF) The Impact of Class Presentation on EFL Learners' Speaking

    Keywords: Class presentation, speaking skill, EFL learners, speaking activities International Journal of Foreign Language Teaching and Research, 9 (39), 2021 Islamic Azad University of Najafabad 58 Toghroli & Afraz, Vol. 9, Issue 39, 2021, pp. 47-66 Introduction Speaking is a productive necessary skill to communicate effectively in any language ...

  21. Preparing EFL Learners for Oral Presentations

    The communicative approach to English teaching has been very popular in many EFL college conversation classes. Having students give oral presentations in front of the class is one of learner-centered activities that has been widely included in teachers 'lesson plans to improve students' oral proficiency. However, students' oral presentation problems sometimes defeat the purpose of developing ...

  22. Oral Interaction in the EFL Classroom: The Effects of Instructional

    Typically, explicit presentation of language forms is combined with activities such as dialogue repetition and filling in blanks. Ellis labels such activities as 'exercises.' Exercises engage learners in producing correct linguistic forms (i.e., those studied in class) but lack a clear communicative goal to be achieved.

  23. [PDF] The Impact of Class Presentation on EFL Learners' Speaking

    Considering the great importance of speaking to EFL learners, teachers have tried to use different teaching techniques to help learners master this skill. One of these techniques is learner-based language teaching. The goal of this study was to investigate the effect of using selected class presentation on the speaking development of EFL learners. To this purpose, a mixed-methods research was ...