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1. Interactive and Engaging
PowerPoints for Instruction
Language Acquisition
Department
Did the PPT
capture your
attention? How?

2. Discuss with
the person
next to you. 
What makes it “Engaging”?
Definition
Attractive, pleasing.
• To occupy the attention or
efforts of a person or
persons.

3. What makes it “Interactive”?
• Allowing or relating to
continuous two way
transfer of information
between a user and the
central point of
communication
system—PPT.
• Provide real-time
feedback
Discuss with
the person next
to you. 

4. The Key to Interactive and Engaging PPT
Appropriate Background and Color Design
 Fonts / SmartArt / Chart
 Picture (Google)
Usage of Animations & Slide Transitions
 Entrance
 Emphasis
 Exit
Incorporation of Videos and Sounds
 YouTube (http://www.clipconverter.cc/)

5. “Games”

6. What makes it “a Game”?
Discuss with
the person next
to you. 
• A competitive activity involving skill,
chance, or endurance on the part of two or
more persons who play according to a set of
rules, usually for their own amusement or for
that of spectators.

7. 比手画脚
• Charades
• One representative will act out a vocabulary
assigned by the teacher
• The fastest team that writes down the
vocabulary gets the point.

8. • Teacher will assign a
person to come up and
draw a vocabulary , a
phrase, or a sentence.
• Rest of the class will guess
by writing on the
whiteboard in Characters.
• Everyone on the team has
to have the correct answer
in order to receive the
point.
• Extra Credit 
他在画什么?

9. 第一部分
 Individually
 Spot and Write down 10 Vocabulary
 First 3 students win extra credit
第二部分
 In Teams
 Each team take turn to share a vocabulary
he/she found along with the definition:
“中文 Chinese”
 Last team standing win extra credit
Word Search II

10. Word Search
感 动 生 然 间 息 次
情 谢 病 不 时 休 上
保 险 了 要 赶 快 痒
安 冒 乱 懒 人 线 越
检 查 身 体 健 康 来
说 再 过 敏 药 店 越

11. 14 13 12
8 9 10 11
7 6 5 4
31 2

12. • In Teams – you begin with
10 points.
• Teacher will present or
assign questions.
• Whoever answers the
question correctly gets a
chance to deduct another
team’s points.
• The team with the most
points in the end gets extra
credit. 
星球大战
原力觉醒

13. 一 二 三 四 五
六 -1 -1 -3
七
-2 -2
Full
recovery -1
八 -5
零 -4
-2
九
+2 +2 -3
-4
-2
十 -3 -3 -1
+4
西斯大帝
零
偷 Steal

14. Effective
Presentation
Designs

15. #1 Don’t Use a Built-In Theme

16. #2 Use Quality Photography
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17. #2 Use Quality Photography
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keyword
What size is
this bird?

18. #3 Solid Colors Rock
Which
background is
better?

19. #4 Typography Speaks Volumes
Free Fonts
Online!

20. The Trick to Using Fun Fonts

21. #5 Watch Your Readability

22. How to Fix This?
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23. #5 Watch Your Readability
紫 黄
黄紫

24. #6 Animation