Today’s activities:

 Review: content and requirements for

Speaking to Inform Presentation

 Review: dates and times your for

presentation.

 Continue outline: Sections 4-5

 Start to practice: Sections 1, 2, 3.

 Answer in Pairs

 How many sections should your presentation have?

Name all 5

 What do you present in each section?

 What are the 2 grammar topics that will be specifically

evaluated in this presentation?
Give examples
 What extra vocabulary will be evaluated?
 Structure of your presentation

1. Hook
Think of an interesting way to open your talk. A question, a curious fact, shocking information, a picture, etc. To break the ice with the audience.

2. Personal Introduction
Greet the audience formally, introduce yourself and provide some academic background you consider relevant.

3. Relevance/Importance of the concept in your field. Why did you choose it?
Tell the audience exactly what concept you will explain in your presentation. Do not define it yet. Explain at least 2 reasons why that concept is
of extreme relevance in your field and why personally find it important. Use formal connectors as needed.

4. Definition (this is the most important part of your presentation)

Provide a clear definition of the concept. Use many defining and nondefining clauses.
Provide more details, examples, any extra information you find necessary to help clarify its definition, its applications, etc.
Use non/defining clauses and formal connectors as you see ft.

5. Conclusion
Explicitly bring your talk to an end. Use transitions such as: In conclusion, to conclude, all in all, In brief, to sum up.
Do not use: So, that’s it. I finished. Ok, finally…
Thank the audience for their attention.
How to start your presentation
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aGEFtRwPhE4
Find video under week 3, Wednesday
Hooks:
● Shoking statistics, questions, pictures personal stories,
anecdotes.

● BUT…remember!

● They have to help you connect the topic of your

presentation.
 Sections Your Ideas
OLFACTORY MEMORY
Open
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Assignment: Speaking
experienced the unexpectedtotrip
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down memory and
lane start
after working
perceiving in sections
a certain smell on the
street? At a restaurant? At the office? Has that smell taken you to an exact moment in time from many
1 andago
1. Hook years 2. making
Save your progress.
you feel as though you were there again? Has that smell triggered feelings, emotions
and memories you thought you had forgotten about? Memory and its connection to our senses is a topic
that has intrigued psychologists, doctors and people in other fields for years.

2. Personal Good morning, everybody. My name is Pepito Perez. I am a Medicine major with a minor in Psychology. I
Intro am in 9th semester, and I am here today to hopefully help you understand why our brain is the most
interesting organ in our bodies! Our brain keeps amazing secrets, and today, we will reveal one of them: Our
Olfactory Memory.
Notice how importance is explained but no definition is given!
Olfactory Memory is an important concept in many fields though it is of extreme importance in the fields
3. Relevance
of psychology and medicine due to the fact that it can provide the answer to how patients with certain
In your field. emotional and even physical ailments are diagnosed and treated.
No definition yet Additionally, olfactory memory can provide doctors and patients with information that can help
understand minor and severe memory loss, and how sensory-stimulated treatments can revolutionize and
even change the course of psychological and medical treatments for Alzheimer’s and dementia. But first,
let’s try to understand what it is exactly.
 Practice!

Imagine you are Pepito Perez and this is the topic of your presentation.

● Practice reading each section as if you were giving this talk. Feel free to change ideas.

● Change your voice and prosody (intonation, rhythm, speed) to make it sound interesting and not like you
are reading.
 Practice!

● Go to Week 3, Wednesday: Practice Introductions (Padlet)

● Write your name and then click on the three-dot menu

● Then, click on: Voice recorder

● Click on the mic icon and practice.

● When you like your recording, save and publish.

● Have your parter listen to your recording and ask him/her to write a comment/recommendation. You can also rate your
partner’s recording with stars: 1-5 . There is an example in the padlet recorded by A.I.
 NEXT WEEK: You only come on the day you present.

● In order to compensate for the 2 days you don’t come, you will
take Quiz 1. Find it in Quizzes.

● Deadline: April 26th 11:59 pm

● This quiz will mark attendance for the 2 days.

● No extensions will be made to this assignment.

● Let’s confirm day and time!

● Bloque Neon: Presentation Schedule
 CONTINUE WORKING WITH YOUR OUTLINE
● Check your Activity report: I keep an excel with your progress oh homework and class
activities. See notebook icon on Bloquye Neon

What do we have so far?

● Listening Portfolio (30%) of your grade

1. Profile page with picture and short paragraph with personal information, your major and your
interests in your frield.
2. Activity 1: A min-map that explains the 3 concepts presented by the Clinical Psychologist.
A reflection about your opinion of the video and the activity.

General Class Activities:

1. Progress with outline sections 1,2, 3 (this was homework from last week)
2. Relative clause exercises in pairs or individually (pictures uploaded to Bloque Neon
yesterday)
3. Recording of today: Practice Introductions (not graded, just for practice in pairs.