Public Speaking_Week 3,4

Which are supporting materials in a presentation?

• Your notes

• The slides

• Statistics

• A book

What is an example of analogy?

• You're presenting about a modern diet. You compare it with the one of 50 years ago.

• You're telling a story about modern diets.

• You are presenting about figures about people's diets.

• You're defining the food pyramid.

------ is an account given by someone who is a recognized expert on a given topic.

• Expert testimony

• An entertaining anecdote

• Eyewitness testimony

• Analogy

Fill in the blank

Eyewitness testimony is an account given by an individual who has had ------ experience with something.

(a)  

Which one is an example of statistics? (2 correct answers)

• The unemployment rate has fallen 2.4% in the last three years.

• The average student debt is $35,000 at graduation.

• Unemployment rate has fallen slightly in the last three years.

• Last year, I was made redundant and become unemployed ever since.

Choose suitable phrases to introduce statistics (3 correct answers)

• As evident in some research,

• For example,

• Recent statistics reveal that

• From my perspective,

• According to a recent study into ...,

What type of narrative is this?

In 1879, Thomas Edison invented the lightbulb.

• informative

• personal

• entertaining

I vividly remember a story that happened to me a couple of years ago ... would be an opening of a(n) _______ story.

• informative

• personal

• entertaining

In a presentation, when you tell an anecdote that makes people laugh, it is defined as ______

• an entertaining story

• a sense of humor

• an informative story

• an analogy

You can make up things in the story without informing the audience.

• TRUE

• FALSE