COMMUNICATION SKILLS 2

Course Description

The main goal of this course is to improve your communication skills in spoken English, and to improve your presentation skills. The course promotes the ability to present a message to an audience in a clear, confident, and interesting way. It is a practical course which includes ‘real world’ tasks and situations with cooperation, teamwork and communication with other course participants and the instructor. There is a strong focus on developing excellent verbal and non-verbal communication together with good practice in research skills for delivering effective presentations. Key elements include (1) Applied Skills and Practice, (2) developing, choosing, and Adapting Source Materials to suit your audience, (3) Designing Visual Aids (PowerPoint) to make presentations clearer and more interesting and (4) preparing Outlines and Notes to Plan and Organise your Presentations. There are 8 units and 2 Projects/Presentations which include assessment and feedback. Project 1 is based on a Team Presentation and Project 2 is based on an Individual Presentation.