Presentation skills – tips from kids

Show your pupils this short, entertaining video to give them some great tips about using gestures when presenting:

Schooled by Kids: Presentation Skills, Part 2

Give them an opportunity to practise – for example, a 30 second presentation to a partner on something they feel strongly about. Can they incorporate all four gestures successfully?

Challenge them to think of some additional useful gestures. What gestures have they seen other people using? Why did they use them?

 
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