EFFECTIVE COMMUNICATION ACTIVITY

What are you going to learn in this activity?

You will be able to train your communication skills by recording yourself in a video. You will
be able to attend two online lessons from the expert ​María Pedroviejo where she will
provide you with useful communication strategies and pieces of advice to put in practice both
in your personal and professional life.

INSTRUCTIONS
- In this task, you are required record a ​video​ in English* related to a topic of your choice
and write a specific ​document​ linked to the video.

- There are five topic video ​options​ you can choose for your recording. See the table below
with the instructions you need to follow for each topic option:

Topic video Objective Audience Modality Time Required document

Elevator pitch​: Get financing for Individual. Have a Your video and the
you are an your project Investors white background 1,5 min portfolio of your
entrepreneur idea/project

In pairs (two The video and two

gaians): one is documents: one from
the interviewer the interviewer and
Job interview Get the job Human and the other the 5 min another from the
resources candidate. In a candidate with the
office with two conclusions of the
chairs interview

Your Individual: your

Exposition of a workmates. It torso must
project in your must be appear, and the The video and the
Pechakucha internship remote (your presentation only 4 min presentation
company colleagues 30% of the time
are not
present)
 In pairs (two
gaians): a video The video and two
Raise awareness Radio of two of you, one documents: the
Radio Interview about a social listeners is the interviewer 5 min initiative of the guest
topic and the other the and the conclusion of
guest the interviewer.

Individual: your
Ted talk Inspire, motivate Public whole body must 4 min The video and the
appear all the presentation used.
time

*If you don’t feel comfortable with your English, we recommend that you choose a topic

video that has an in pairs modality.

- iMPORTANT REQUIREMENTS

-Your ​appearance on the video and the way you communicate as the ​tone of your voice

and your​ body language​ will be taken into account. They are other ways of communication!

- Your speech must have a good ​structure​ with an ​introduction​, ​body​ and ​conclusion​.

SUBMISSION DETAILS

- To upload the activity you need to post a comment at the bottom of this page, pasting the

link of your video​ with Vimeo or Youtube and the ​required document​ attached on ​PDF​.

Verify the video can be watched from other accounts other than yours. Select either “hidden

option” for Youtube or “private link” for Vimeo to ensure your privacy.
 -Name your document like this: MAR_20_Bruno López Pizza_M

- If you are doing the activity along with another Gaian, ​only one member of the team must

upload the activity mentioning your partner on the comment where you upload the activity.

i.e. @MAR_20_Bruno Tomá Pizza_M, so he/she can check everything is alright.

DEADLINE

The ​deadline to develop this task ends on 27th of April at 09:00 am. Make sure your video

can properly be seen by us and if it has a password, you provide it to us.

EXTRA RESOURCES

Here you can find ​extra resources​ that will help you to develop the activity:

- Elevator pitch: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elevator_pitch

- Job interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVAMb6Kui6A

- Pechakucha: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PechaKucha

- Radio interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kDm3fcAzTD0

- Ted talk: https://www.ted.com/

PIECES OF ADVICE TO RECORD VIDEOS

- If you are interested in how to make videos and presentations with Vimeo, you can
learn how to do it by clicking on this link: https://goo.gl/eJHh4G

- You can also go back to the ​Digital Competences Module​ because several advices
are given on page 2 and 3. Have a look at the image below that reminds you how to
access to that unit.

Enjoy your experience and let’s communicate!