Oral Presentations

Audience: Who is going to listen to you? 

Organization: What are the main topics or categories of your presentation?

Time: How much time do you have? What is the pace that you have to have?

Body posture: How are you going to move around? Are you enthusiastic enough about your topic? Are you smiling? Which gestures will you use to emphasize your points?

Eye contact: Are you looking in the eyes of your audience?

Volume: Are you speaking loud enough?

Presentation: 

• • Who are you? 

  • Why are you there?

Introduction:

• • Catch your audience's attention: give an amazing fact, make a question or tell a short story. 

  • Reveal your topic: say what you are going to talk about and talk about the importance of the topic.

  • Give an outline of the main points of your presentation: explain the main aspects of your topic.

Main body:

• • Explain your points and be clear.

  • Provide enough evidence and examples.

  • Use transitions, linkers and connectors (see useful sentences below).

  • Explain ideas, stories and analogies to make difficult aspects clear and to provide enough repetition to be understood.

Conclusion:

• • Signal your conclusion with a transition or a connector.

  • Summarize your point.

  • Ask for questions.

  • Thank your audience.