HOW TO MAKE A GOOD PRESENTATION



HOW TO MAKE A GOOD PRESENTATION

Follow these steps to get the best mark you can on a presentation:

1) RESEARCH YOUR TOPIC THOROUGHLY. A presentation without content is a waste of your time and everyone else’s.

2) Organize your information is much the same way you do an essay: you should have an introduction, a body, and a conclusion.

➢ THE INTRODUCTION: Your introduction should not be more than 15% of your presentation. Describe the importance/relevance of your topic. Tell the audience what you will be talking about. Do not worry about making your introduction perfect until you have finished preparing the body of your presentation.

➢ THE BODY: It should be logically organized. One idea should flow into the next. It should be clear for the audience when you are moving on to a new point. If there is more than one person involved in the presentation, give some thought as to what order each person should speak.

➢ THE CONCLUSION: Your conclusion should do two things: tell the audience you are ending your presentation, and to reinforce the audience’s understanding of your topic. You can begin your conclusion by saying “In closing,” or “Let me end by saying,” or “In conclusion”. You should also generally reiterate the most important points of your presentation in your conclusion so that the audience walks away knowing what is most important.

3) Make an outline of the most important ideas of your presentation, and then write out what you want to say in your presentation.

4) REHEARSE IT. Make sure you know how to pronounce all the words, and exactly how long it takes you to give the presentation. It is not acceptable to go much over the time limit, and for some teachers, it's not acceptable at all. By taking up more time, you may impact another group's potential to finish their presentation or interfere with the teacher's planning for the next class.

HOW TO DELIVER YOUR PRESENTATION WELL

Follow these steps to get the best mark you can:

1) Rehearse.

2) Scan your audience from left to right and do not look at any one person longer than another.

3) Don’t worry about nervousness. Most nervousness is not visible to your audience.

4) Do not read your speech. You may have notes in front of you but you should speak naturally.

5) Speak slowly and clearly. Pause between sentences and especially between main points.

6) Do not wave around your arms or your notes. Leave your notes on a podium, desk, or in your hands in front of you.

7) Never turn your back to your audience.

8) Never use your cell phone.

POWER POINT:

➢ Use a font size and style that is easy to see from a distance.

➢ Colour adds interest when used well: some colours are too similar to see them apart (i.e. orange and red, black and blue) and there should not be too many colours that overwhelm the audience.

➢ The major parts of PowerPoint slides are text, images, and sounds.

• TEXT: Each slide should have a title. If your teacher wants text beyond a title, point form should be used and full sentences should not, unless you are providing a direct quote that inspires interest and helps the audience understand your topic better. Otherwise, only the main ideas should be written down. Be sure to edit for capitalization, punctuation, spelling, and where necessary, grammar errors.

• IMAGES: All images should have the purpose of making your ideas in your presentation more clear to the audience and to increase interest. Any image you use should be clear from a distance. This means it should be big enough and the detail should be seen from the back row.

• SOUNDS: Any sound that is used should be used only if it makes your message more clear. They should be loud enough to hear at the back but not so loud that it drowns out the speaker. Sounds used as an example of something you are saying should be introduced. Sounds should be incorporated into the presentation and not just put at the end. They should also have an appropriate length. Consider the length of your presentation when deciding how long your sound should be.

➢ Your slides should be simple and easy to look at, whether it's a graph, image, or text.

➢ Balance what you have on each slide visually by using the space well, and the slides overall should be balanced in terms of content.

➢ Do not turn your back to the audience and read off the slide. Have notes in front of you so that you never turn your head.

➢ Your PowerPoint slides should not be your script. They should only be the main ideas of what you want to say in point form (if your teacher wants text).

➢ Have a group member change the slide as you speak. Give them your script and indicate on the script when you want them to change the slide so that the presentation runs smoothly.

➢ REHEARSE. It is the ONLY WAY to make sure the above is done well.

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