Section: 5: Optimising your oral presentation | Scientific Communication in English : Neuroscience | Plateforme pédagogique de l'université de Bordeaux

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Topic outline

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5: Optimising your oral presentation
- OPTIMISING YOUR ORAL PRESENTATION
  The 3-hour session will be focused on getting ready to present your article.
  Make sure you all bring your laptop and the slides of your presentation even if it is still a work in progress.
  WHAT IS EFFECTIVE COMMUNICATION?
  Based on what we covered in class, write down all the effective communication strategies that you think apply to you.
  Download and fill in this Assessment criteria worksheet.
  Make sure you bring it with you and in the meantime, keep up the good work...
- Help with language...
- academic talk on psychedelic drugs (VIDEO) File
  
  164.9 MB Video file (MP4)
  
  Watch a post-doc scientist giving a talk and learn from the language he uses...
- language for giving a talk or a lecture (WORKSHEET) File
  
  25.8 KB Word 2007 document
  
  Watch the talk on psychedelic drugs and complete the table with useful language from the lecture...
- academic talk on psychedelic drugs (TRANSCRIPT) File
  
  40.8 KB PDF document
- language for giving a talk or a lecture (KEY) File
  
  218.5 KB PDF document
- Help structuring your presentation...
- 4DOUPEAP2 URL
  
  Effective presentations (2)
- 4DOUPEAP1 File
  
  12.7 MB Video file (MOV)
  
  Effective presentations (1)
- 4DOUPEAP3 URL
  
  Effective presentations (3)
- Getting ready to present OAP Script File
  
  55.4 KB PDF document
- LANGUAGE TASK: BOOST YOUR INTRODUCTION
  WHAT TO SAY?
  Watch a Ted Talk on neuroscience and focus on the introduction. Fill in this collaborative document with useful and re-usable expressions found in the Ted talk you chose.
  HOW TO SAY IT?
  Practice shadowing.
  Shadowing is a technique that can help you improve your pronunciation, rhythm, and intonation. To do so, you need to practice repeating parts of a sentence or a complete sentence right after the speaker as soon as possible.
  
  Steps
  1. Choose an audio material WITH a transcript: the TED TALK you chose.
  2. Listen to the 1st paragraph and follow the transcript.
  3. Listen to the audio again but STOP every 10 seconds and REPEAT what you just heard right after the speaker as soon as possible.
- TED TALK: Your body language can shape who you are...(QUIZ)
- TED TALK: Tracking ancient diseases using plaque (QUIZ)
- Hand gestures video File
  
  Watch Rebecca Saxe describing how gestures support communication.
- Hand gestures WORKSHEET File

July 2025

Topic outline

5: Optimising your oral presentation

Help with language...

Help structuring your presentation...