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Please switch-off your cell phone 

By
Ian Williams
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What are your expectations from this presentation?

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Why visuals are essential

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What should we do
for an effective
ESL PowerPoint
lesson?
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Ø The Weather

Ø If we are teaching language relating to the

weather, we might ask our students simple
questions like:
Ø What’s the weather like today?
Ø What was it like when you were on holiday?

Ø Do you like the rain?

Ø But … is this more effective …?
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What's the
weather like today?
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weather
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Ø Instead of asking questions about the temperature …

Ø - is it hot today? -
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Ø isn’t it more effective and memorable to do this? …

Ø
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It's hot.

hot
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sun

It's sunny.
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It's cold.

cold
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snow

It's snowing.
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It's windy.

wind
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It's rainy.

rain
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It's stormy.

storm
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It's cloudy.

cloud
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Ø Is there a way of using these visual presentation

techniques as a means of differentiation in the classroom?
Ø Interactive presentations give students
who are less able a chance to articulate
answers and to describe what they see.
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Ø What about asking for increasingly complex

sentences about the weather from your students?
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cloud

Clouds keep temperatures down.

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Ø Want to stimulate discussion?

Ø Why not add a film?

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Ø Similarly, you can present effective lessons on time …

Øor on just about any subject you wish …

Ø Like introductions
-

Ø Or graphs
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Choose aa font
Ø Choose whichis is
font which easy
easy to read
to read like Arial

Ø Bulleted items should have minimum 20 points size

Ø Titles should be minimum of 28 points size

Ø Use Template

Ø Use complementary colours

Ø Overall – Keep It Short and Simple -

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Prepare

Prepare
and

Prepare

“If you fail to prepare, you are prepared to fail.” -

And don’t be afraid to add humour.

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Ø Mentor’s feedback is worth 10 practices

Ø Find a mentor who can give constructive feedback

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Thank you very much

Diolch yn fawr

Shokran