Lecture Notes on Verbal Communication (Part 2 of 2)
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1. Guidelines and Tips on Oral Presentation

Steps for Preparing an Oral Presentation

  1. Clarify an anticipated audience and check its background
  2. Decide the time for an oral presentation
  3. Create an outline of the oral presentation
  4. Create slides for the oral presentation according to the outline
  5. Prepare a handout (ideally, a single sheet, possibly two-sided) given to the audience
  6. List expected questions and prepare answers to them
  7. Rehearse the oral presentation and Q&A while adjusting time distribution over segments of the oral presentation

Dos

Don'ts

For more comprehensive guidelines on oral presentation, refer to Do's and Don'ts of Giving an Oral Presentation and Presentation Skills.

2. Guidelines and Tips on How to Create Slides for Oral Presentation

Audio/Visual Equipment

Organization of a Talk

Slides (or Transparencies)

Example 2.1:

3. Exercises

  1. Refer to slides for my talk on electronic money and virtual currencies.
    Then, answer at least 5 of the following questions.

    1. Whom is the famous statement "Time is money" attributed to?
      (A) Thomas Edison     (B) Abraham Lincoln     (C) Benjamin Franklin     (D) Bonaparte Napoleon     (E) Leonardo da Vinci
    2. What is the name of the very first electronic money developed by Western Union in 1860?
      (A) Telegram Transaction     (B) Automatic Money Transaction     (C) Wired Money Transfer        (D) Remote Money Order     (E) Electronic Fund Transfer
    3. What is the proportion of electronic money to the total value of all transactions in USA?
      (A) 95%     (B) 90%     (C) 85%     (D) 80%     (E) 70%
    4. What is the virtual currency used in the virtual world "the Second Life"?
      (A) Krona     (B) Linden Dollar     (C) Bitcoin     (D) Second     (E) Viva Peso
    5. When the acronym "P2P" is used in the context of online payment, what does it stand for?
      (A) Point-to-Point     (B) Peer-to-Peer     (C) Payer-to-Payee     (D) Person-to-Person     (E) Peta-to-Pico
    6. Which online game did Richard Thurman earn money by gold farming?
      (A) Counter-Strike     (B) World of Warcraft     (C) Final Fantasy     (D) Lineage     (E) Ultima Online
    7. Which statement is FALSE on cryptocurrencies?
      (A) Cryptocurrencies encourage transactions bypassing banks.     (B) Cryptocurrencies offers inexpensive fees for processing transactions.     (C) Cryptocurrencies are suitable for micropayment.     (D) Cryptocurrencies provide a quick boost in sales of a retail store.     (E) Cryptocurrencies use cryptography for security.
    8. How many satoshi's are equivalent to 1 Bitcoin?
      (A) 1,000     (B) 1,000,000     (C) 10,000,000     (D) 100,000,000     (E) 1,000,000,000
    9. What is the largest Bitcoin exchange that filed for bankruptcy in Feb. 2014, caused huge losses of customers' bitcoins, and triggered a sharp drop of a Bitcoin value.
      (A) Mt. Gox     (B) Mt. Rainier     (C) BitEx     (D) World Bitcoins     (E) CryptEx
    10. Which is irrelevant to Bitcoins?
      (A) Blockchain     (B) Cogeneration     (C) Hash     (D) P2P Network     (E) Mining

  2. Assume that you need to show a demo of HCU's home page to foreign guests.
    Have practice of answering questions of the foreign guests (your group members in this role playing).

  3. Listen the talk "The Future of Driverless Cars" posted at YouTube
    and then come up with at least one question for each of the following types.
    1. Yes-No Question
    2. 5W1H Question
    3. Question Asking the Speaker's Opinion

  4. For your oral presentation in Assignment 4, create slides of a cover page and an outline.

  5. Assume that you will give a 5-minute talk to high school students about Hiroshima City University.
    An objective of the talk is to make the high school students get interested in applying for admission to Hiroshima City University next Spring.
    Prepare the talk with slides.