ACS Oral Presentations
Topic 1: Engaging Hooks and Introductions
Grabbing Your Audience's Attention: Engaging Hooks and Introductions
This topic is broken up into three (3) parts:
- Digital Module: Engaging Hooks
- This module gives you the building blocks to start your presentation strong, and grab your audience’s attention right from the start
- Digital Module: Introducing Your Presentation
- This module will teach you how to structure and develop your introduction so that your presentation starts in the best possible way.
- Workshop and Submission
- Come along and practice the skills you’ve learnt in the two previous digital modules, and apply those skills to a live example that you can submit for feedback by our expert teachers
Topic 2: Structuring Ideas and Signposting
Making It Easy To Follow: Structuring Ideas and Signposting
This topic is broken up into three (3) parts:
- Digital Module: Clear Topic Transitions
- This module teaches you how to let your audience know when you are moving from one topic to another clearly, so they can understand and follow your presentation more easily.
- Digital Module: Signposting
- This module will teach you how to use signposting language effectively so that your audience knows the structure of your talk and can follow the presentation more easily.
- Workshop and Submission
- Come along and practice the skills you’ve learnt in the two previous digital modules, and apply those skills to a live example that you can submit for feedback by our expert teachers.
Topic 3: Voice Techniques - Stress and Pausing
Speaking with Impact: Voice Techniques - Stress and Pausing
This topic is broken up into three (3) parts:
- Digital Module: Stress and Pausing
- This module teaches you how to use stress for impact, and how pausing can be used to draw your audience’s attention to key information in your presentation.
- Digital Module: Using Intonation
- This module will teach you how to use intonation effectively and make your presentation sound more interesting and engaging.
- Workshop and Submission
- Come along and practice the skills you’ve learnt in the two previous digital modules, and apply those skills to a live example that you can submit for feedback by our expert teachers.
Topic 4: Summarising Effectively and Creating Emphasis
Finishing Strong: Summarising Effectively and Creating Emphasis
This topic is broken up into three (3) parts:
- Digital Module: Summarising Effectively
- This module supports you to wrap up your presentation and clearly summarise your main points.
- Digital Module: Creating Emphasis
- This module will teach you how leave your audience with some clear take away information from your presentation that you want them to remember.
- Workshop and Submission
- Come along and practice the skills you’ve learnt in the two previous digital modules, and apply those skills to a live example that you can submit for feedback by our expert teachers