Presentations: Death by Power Point

Aim: Provide students with guidelines on how to prepare a PowerPoint presentation: background colour, font types, insertion of objects and animations...


If you are using the textbook: English for Communications, use this video as an extension tasks in units:

Unit 2. Corporate Communication and Information Processes

Unit 3. Oral Communication

Unit 10. Communications Skills for Quality Customer Services

To carry out this activity you need the following materials:

1. Video: Death by Power Point . Video length 4: 25.s (see below)

2. Dynamic Presentations _Life after Death by PowerPoint_ Script and instructions

3. Dynamic Presentations_Life after Death by PowerPoint_ Students Handout

4. Dynamic Presentations_Life after Death by PowerPoint_ Photocopiable answer sheet for question B _key

Materials by Beatriz Papaseit Fernández and María Zabala Peña

Video Information:

Original video source: http://www.davidairey.com/how-not-to-use-powerpoint/

You can also download the video from the following site: Maria and Bea's site




More face to face? Do you want to show your students a video on how to exchange business cards? Go to this  task  HERE

Looking for a model of what to include in a Power Point presentation? Look at this task HERE