ENGLISH LANGUAGE FOCUS SUMMER SCHOOL
MASARYK    JULY 2019
Speaking Skills:
know your audience
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ACTIVITY 1
One-word story
Record: 12 minutes
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IN THESE WORKSHOPS
❏What do we mean by English Speaking Skills?
❏The audience
❏Formal language, appropriate language
❏Let’s put it into practice.
❏Presentations
❏What can you take from these sessions?
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WHAT DO WE MEAN BY ENGLISH SPEAKING SKILLS (1)
●Communication
●Accuracy?
●Vocabulary and style
●Grammar
●Fluency and coherence
●Who is your audience?
●Appropriate to the (academic / non-academic setting) setting
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ACTIVITY 2
What’s In The Box
1)A group of 5 year old children
2)A police briefing
3)A TV news report
4)A student seminar
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WHAT DO WE MEAN BY ENGLISH SPEAKING SKILLS (2)
●Issues for second-language speakers
●The fear factor
●Accuracy, grammar, fluency, coherence, style
●Lack of “out of the box”  vocabulary
●FLI
●Experience of Global (Academic) English
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WHAT DO WE MEAN BY ENGLISH SPEAKING SKILLS (3)
●Issues for native speakers of English (the “native-speaker problem”)
●Complacency
●Unawareness of an appropriate style
●Unawareness of others
●Poor grasp of the local FLI (can’t understand other’s English)
●Experience of Global (Academic) English
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ACTIVITY 4
Masarykia  Amnesty
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SMALL GROUPS
•Use your discussion phrases
•You are advocates for particular prisoners
•What case can you make for each of your “candidates”
•Make notes
•Prepare an opening statement for the plenary
•Remember your audience
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ACTIVITY 3
FOR THE NEXT SPEAKING SKILLS WORKSHOP
3 minute presentations
(or mini-lessons)
Key issue:
Who’s the audience?
(you’re going to get some peer feedback)

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PRESENTATIONS: HOW WE LOVE THEM!
•As you watch these two examples, think about what is good or bad with these presentations.
•https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y1qDNTG9lg0&t=8s
•https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sCTI5tcnEok
•So, over to you ……..
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Audio Visual Aids

USEFUL RESOURCES
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Audio Visual Aids
http://www.speakingaboutpresenting.com/delivery/presentation-handouts/
http://totalcommunicator.com/vol4_1/handouts.html
http://learnenglish.britishcouncil.org/en

WHAT ROLE HAS GLOBAL ENGLISH IN ACADEMIC SPEAKING?
●A form of English open to all
●Clear
●Appropriate
●Suitable for the required task
●Not British or American ………. GLOBAL
●A learnt (and taught) skill
●Allows the user to practise and develop what they already have
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EVALUATION
What can you take from these sessions?
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