Giving a presentation ʺThere is no such thing as presentation talent, it is called Presentation Skills“ David JP Phillips

The duration of the presentation 8-10 minutes + answering the questions The questions asked will be taken account of and the students asking questions will have an opportunity to earn more points. Send your presentation at least 3 days before presenting it in front of the class via e-mail : eha.mangel@tlu.ee

Students who fail to appear on the appointed date to give their presentation will: 1) have to provide a doctor’s certificate if they were ill 2) lose 20 points in their final mark

Before making the presentation the student should introduce some challenging words and terms (at least 30) to understand the presentation. E.g. Gobbledygook speech or writing that is complicated and difficult to understand Googol A googol is the large number 10100. In decimal notation, it is written as the digit 1 followed by one hundred 0s:.

Introduction Who? Introduce yourself. Why? Give the audience the purpose of your presentation. What? Outline a roadmap (the main points you are about to present) using a technique called ‘sequencing’: firstly, secondly, thirdly. How? Let your audience know the length of the presentation and when they can ask questions etc.

Jump start techniques WIIFM – What’s in it for me? Tell the audience what benefits they will gain from listening to your presentation and use the word ‘you’ when you do this. E.g. ‘The benefit for you is that you will have a better product that will do a better job.’

Question and answer Ask something and then go on to answer it yourself. E.g. We often talk about creativity and promoting a culture of creativity. But what do we mean exactly? I’m sure each of you would give a different answer. So, I am here today to answer this question...

Quotations Find something original or exciting in newspapers, magazines, books or on the Internet. Make it clear that you are using somebody else’s words. E.g. In today’s newspaper our CEO stated ‘The Internet is the aggressive revolutionary army of our age. It will kill our children’ and I am going to show you why we need to ...

Expert testimony or historical evidence/Shocking statement or startling statistics Give objective evidence or facts from an authoritative source. E.g. I’m holding the latest government health report in my hands. It states that the chance of getting some cancers has risen from one in twelve to one in nine in the last few years. The report goes on to link this to household products ... Today, I’m going to exmine what this means ...

Enrolment questions Question the audience directly and get them to respond to you by answering ‘yes’ or ‘no’ or by raising hands. E.g. How many of you have pitched for new business and failed to get it? How many of you hate giving presentations? Raise your hands. Thanks, well this afternoon we’ll be exporing ...

Main Content KISS (keep it short & simple) ʺTalk low, talk slow, and don’t talk too much“ John Wayne Signposts Use to create ‘verbal paragraphs’ that structure and shape the main content and link one point to the next.

When you want to make your next point, you ‘move on’. Moving on to the next point. I’d like to move on to the next point if there are no further questions When you want to change to a completely different topic, you ‘turn to’. I’d like to turn to something completely different. Let’s turn now to our plans for next year.

When you want to give more details about a topic you ‘expand’ or ‘elaborate’. I’d like to expand more on this problem we have had in Chicago. Would you like me to expand a little more on that or have you understood enough? I don’t want to elaborate any more on that as I’m short of time. When you want to talk about something which is off the topic of your presentation, you ‘digress’. I’d like to digress here for a moment and just say a word of thanks to Bob for organizing this meeting. Digressing for a moment, I’d like to say a few words about our problems in Chicago.

When you want to refer back to an earlier point, you ‘go back’. Going back to something I said earlier, the situation in Chicago is serious. I’d like to go back to something Jenny said in her presentation. To just give the outline of a point, you ’summarize’. If I could just summarize a few points from John’s report. I don’t have a lot of time left so I’m going to summarize the next few points.

To repeat the main points of what you have said, you ‘recap’. I’d like to quickly recap the main points of my presentation. Recapping quickly on what was said before lunch,…… For your final remarks, you ‘conclude’. I’d like to conclude by leaving you with this thought …… If I may conclude by quoting Karl Marx …….  

Finishing Signal Pause briefly to let your audience know you are ready to finish Summary Reflection of your ‘What?’ in the introduction Conclusion Reflection of your ‘Why?’. Let your audience know what you want them to do or think after the presentation Closing remarks Thank your audience, ask for questions, pass round handouts etc.

Finish with a bang technique A big cardboard box on the table, which is smashed with a hammer and thrown into the rubbish bin at the end - to think ‘outside the box’

Doing something different. Giving a talk about creativity the presenter played some music and got everyone involved. ‘I’ll never forget it because it was different.’

Ending with a quote and delivering it with real power and conviction

Evaluating criteria (max.20 points) 1 ORGANISATION (4p.) logical, clear-structured, use of signposts 2 DELIVERY (4p.) fluency, eye-contact, loudness, intonation 3 LANGUAGE (4p.) grammar, register, vocabulary, pronunciation 4 CONTENT (4p.) Interesting topic, timing 5 VISUALS (2p.) 6 ABILITY TO ANSWER QUESTIONS (2p.)

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