1. How to prepare an oral presentation
Oral presentations typically involve three important steps:
1) planning, 2) practicing, and 3) presenting

2. Audience:
Focus your presentation on the audience.
Your presentation is not about how much you can say, but about how much your audience can understand.
Maintain eye contact. Only look at notes or slides very briefly.
Be aware of your body posture.
Be enthusiastic about your topic.
Slow down your speech. We naturally talk faster when we are nervous.

3. Introduction:
Create an effective opening that will interest your audience: pose a question, give an amazing fact, or tell a short, interesting story.
Reveal your topic to the audience and explain why it is important for them to learn about it.
Give a brief outline of the major points you will cover in your presentation.

4. Main Body:
Explain your points.
Give clear explanations.
Provide sufficient evidence to be convincing.
Use transitions between sections of your presentation:
Let’s begin …
To get started, let’s examine …
Let’s get started talking about …
Now that we’ve given an overview, let’s start with …
Use analogies and stories to explain complicated ideas and to build repetition.

5. Conclusion:
Signal your conclusion with a transition:
In short …
In summary …
In conclusion …
Summarize your points:
Let’s summarize the key lessons …
Let’s recap what we’ve covered today …

6. Practicing:
Practicing your presentation is essential.
Record your presentation and review it in order to know how you sound and appear to your audience.
Practice in front of peers and elicit feedback. Ask your peers to comment on your delivery and content.
Remember ‘practice makes perfect’

7. Presenting:
You will be marked on the following:
Grammar
Syntax
Fluency
Pronunciation
Vocabulary use (pre-taught vocab as well as new vocab)
Organisation of presentation
Timing

8. 1. Transition between Similar Ideas or Points
Likewise …
Similarly …
This is just like …
In a similar way …
We see the same thing if we consider …
2. Transition between Contrasting Ideas or Points
However …
Conversely …
On the contrary …
On the other side …
On the other hand …
If we flip that around …
Yet, we cannot ignore …
The opposing argument …
If we examine the opposite side, we see …
3. Transition to elaborate upon an idea
Also …
Moreover …
In addition …
Furthermore …
In other words …
Not only that, but …

9. 4. Transition to show Cause-Effect Relationship
Therefore …
As a result …
Consequently …
For that reason …
This is important because …
5. Transition to a Supporting Example
For instance …
For example …
As an example …
To illustrate this …
What’s an example of this? …
But does this happen in real life? Yes …