VIDEO PRESENTATION

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OUMH1303
ENGLISH FOR ORAL COMMUNICATION
JANUARY 2020 SEMESTER
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INSTRUCTION

1. Presentation must be delivered in English.

2. Each presentation is 10 - 15 minutes long.

3. Submit your video presentation to your FACE TO FACE TUTOR.

4. Submission date: 29th Mac 2020.

5. This video presentation accounts for 40% of the total marks for the course.

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 TASK FOR VIDEO PRESENTATION

PURPOSE
Many speakers suffer from some degree of nervousness and anxiety before they
have to speak to an audience. There are many ways to alleviate this problem. One of
the ways is through using video presentation.
The purpose of this task are:
a. to train learners to conquer their fear of speaking in front of a live audience,
boost their self-confidence and project themselves better in diverse situations;
and
b. to develop the learners’ ability in applying specific skills and strategies that are
required in an oral presentation by equip them with value added skills such as
IT, creativity and innovation, etc.

TASK

This task is an individual assignment and the title of the video presentation is “Tips
on How to Improve Your Pronunciation”.

Pronunciation is not about acquiring a native English accent. The most important
aspect in learning pronunciation skills is the ability to speak clearly, so that the
listener easily understands you.

The followings are the areas that you need to consider in preparing the video:

a. Prepare a ten to fifteen minutes video presentation explaining the facts and
your views regarding the given title.
b. You can refer to various resources or use your personal observations,
experience, and knowledge for creating the content, but make sure that the
content of the video is appropriate to your targeted audience.
c. You need to decide who you are as a presenter, your targeted audience, the
surroundings, and other aspects to consider even though you are not going to
mention it verbally in the presentation (OR you can decide to mention this

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 aspect in your introduction of the video. In other words, you are free to be the
“director” and the “producer” of the video!).
d. You are encouraged to use creativity and innovation in producing the video by
catering both brain’s visual and auditory systems, body language, facial
expressions, imagery and music, etc.
e. Visual aids are compulsory.

Refer to the assignment rubrics as a guide to achieve cohesion and coherence.

[Total: 40 marks]

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RUBRICS TO ASSESS A VIDEO PRESENTATION
OUMH1303 ENGLISH FOR ORAL COMMUNICATION / JANUARY 2020
Excellent
CL
QN Criteria Weight
O s
4 3
3 Content 2 Covers the topic in depth
with details and examples.
The knowledge of the
topic is excellent.
The structure of the
content is very inviting to
the viewers.
3 Originality & 2 The video shows great
Creativity originality. The ideas are
creative and witty.
3 Attraction of the 2 A lot (more than four) of
Video different shots, camera
angles, sound effects, and
an adequate use of
zooming providing variety
in the video.
The structure and details
of the video are placed in
a logical order and the
way they are presented
effectively keeps the
interest of the viewer.
Good
Includes basic
knowledge of the topic.
The content is good and
inviting to the viewers.
The video shows
originality with the use of
new ideas and of
shrewdness.
Several (more than
three) different shots,
camera angles, sound
effects and an adequate
use of zooming providing
variety in the video.
There are clear attempts
to link details in the video
but in one or two parts,
the details appear
incoherent.
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ATTACHMENT
Unsatisfactory
Fair Poor Or Max
No response Mark
2 1 0
Includes essential The content includes No content. 8
information about the minor details and it has
topic, but contain few several mistakes in the
mistakes in the facts. facts. The content is
The content is not inviting to the
particularly not really viewer.
inviting to the viewer.
The video uses ideas The video is created Plagiarised video 8
from other people by using other people and no
quoting them, but there ideas without quoting originality.
is little evidence of them. There is a strong
original ideas. evidence of plagiarism.
Few (more than two) Little effort has been No effort has 8
different shots, camera made to provide been made to
angles, sound effects variety to the video. make the video
and/or an adequate use interesting.
of zooming providing The structure and
variety in the video. organization of ideas in No attraction at
the video is not smooth all and/or the
There are attempts to link and/or might contains content is
details in the video but some mistakes in the confusing.
the structure and facts that affected
organisation of the video general understanding
lacks direction that of the viewer.
affected viewer’s
comprehension.
 3 Clarity of the 2 The overall quality of the Most of the quality of the The quality of the video is The quality of the The quality of the 8
Video video and the focus were video and the focus were not very good but the video is acceptable but video and the
excellent and assist good. overall focus was the overall focus was overall focus
viewer’s comprehension. acceptable. not good or quite bad. were very poor
The ending part is and not
The ending part of the recognizable, but does There is no clear ending There is no clear acceptable.
video is recognizable and not effectively close the or the ending part is ending part. The video
gives very clear and video. unexpected/ not just ends.
meaningful closure to the interesting.
video.

3 Use of 2 No errors in grammar, Minimal errors in Some errors in grammar, A lot of errors in Too many major 8
Language punctuation or spelling grammar, punctuation or punctuation or spelling grammar, punctuation errors and very
that distracts the viewer spelling that does not that affects viewer’s or spelling that affects poor grammar,
from the content. The affect viewer’s understanding. viewer’s punctuation or
choices of words are very understanding. Some of the words used comprehension. The spelling.
appropriate and suitable The choices of words are are not appropriate and choices of words are Language used
for the video and targeted mostly appropriate and not suitable for the video very poor and not is not suitable for
audience. suitable for the video and and targeted audience. appropriate the video the video and
targeted audience. and targeted audience. targeted
audience.

Total 10 40
*QN = Question Number