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    How To Write And Deliver Talks
    How To Write And Deliver Talks
    How To Write And Deliver Talks
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    How To Write And Deliver Talks

    By Lewis Lansford

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    As ELT professionals, we may well be called upon to give talks at conferences, something which is way outside the comfort zone for many of us. In this practical eBook, experienced author and seasoned speaker Lewis Lansford has addressed the issues around preparing and delivering talks and webinars. He encourages the reader to think about the audience and their expectations. He then unpacks the process of writing a talk, going into considerable detail about the structure of the talk, the look of the slides, and some very useful technical tips for embedding audio and video. He then moves on to the nerve-racking business of delivering the talk. As well as flagging up pitfalls to avoid, Lewis also includes personal reflections and hard-learned lessons from some seasoned ELT practitioners to help us find our own voice and deliver the best talk we can. For anyone thinking about giving a talk in any context, this eBook is a must-read.
    This eBook forms part of the ELT Teacher 2 Writer training course.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherELT
    Release dateFeb 15, 2016
    ISBN9781311005625
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      How To Write And Deliver Talks - Lewis Lansford

      HOW TO WRITE

      AND DELIVER TALKS

      Lewis Lansford

      TRAINING COURSE FOR ELT WRITERS

      SMASHWORDS EDITION

      License Notes

      This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This ebook may not be resold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please return to Smashwords.com and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

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      How To Write And Deliver Talks

      By Lewis Lansford

      © 2016 ELT Teacher 2 Writer at Smashwords

      www.eltteacher2writer.co.uk

      Contents

      About The Author

      Aims

      The Role Of Talks In The World Of ELT

      Preparing A Talk

      Delivering A Talk

      Delivering A Webinar

      Improving Your Game

      Glossary

      Commentaries On Tasks

      Bibliography

      About The Author

      Photo courtesy of Cecile Lansford

      In the mid-1990s, while working as a senior editor for an international ELT publisher in Hong Kong, I was asked on short notice to deliver a talk at a conference in Thailand in place of our team’s marketing manager, who couldn’t make it for some reason. He gave me his notes and his slides and assured me that everything would be fine. I read through it, thought it more or less made sense, and told myself it would be like teaching, which I’d done a lot of. I wasn’t entirely comfortable with the fact that the talk was really just a thinly veiled sales pitch for a specific primary course, but I assumed the audience would expect that sort of thing, and also assured myself that I would be regarded as an expert, because I was from a top publisher.

      When I started the talk, I became intensely aware that the words and ideas weren’t my own, and that I didn’t have any conviction about them. And despite having an MA in TESOL, I had no ready knowledge of primary teaching. It was soon clear to the audience that I was just flogging a book, and obvious to me that they had a lot more practical knowledge about the topic that I did. While it couldn’t be described as a complete failure – I delivered the whole thing and answered a couple of questions at the end – I felt somewhat embarrassed about it, and vowed never to present under those circumstances again.

      I didn’t give another conference talk for another ten years or so. After I’d made the move from editorial work to writing full time, I mentioned to one of my publishers that I wanted to start promoting

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