PRESENTATIONS

General Tips

- Posture/voice

- Visual impact

- Involvement with audience (rapport)

- Objective of presentation

- Structure: Introduction/Body/Conclusion

- Rehearse! Practice!

- Use visual resources, but keep it simple (if you use images, explore them)

- Slide with objective and agenda (what is going to happen, who is going to talk
about what)

- Questions at the end / interruptions

Language

Starting

Greet the audience

Let me introduce myself...

The objective of this presentation is to present...

Ive divided this presentation into 3 parts...

Signalling

Firstly, Secondly, Then, After that... (sequencing)

To summarize...Thats what I wanted to say... (ending a section)

Lets now look at... (opening a new section)

In addition to this (to add a new point)

Let me now return to (going back)

Highlighting and emphasizing

Focusing Id like to emphasize...stress... Its critical...

What What we cant do is... What Id liek to do is...

Repetition This is a very, very difficult...

To be honest...Frankly speaking...

Analysing lets look at it more closely

Dramatic lgge A total/absolute disaster

Contrast actually/in fact/as a matter of fact

Engaging your audience

Rhetorical questions How can we explain this?

Offer clarification Is that clear?

Rapport We need to...we dont...

Interesting facts Did you know that...?

Interesting examples - For example...

Acknowledge I realize you all know...

Diplomacy I tend to think that.../It seems to me that... It may be...

Closing

Ok. That brings me to the end of my presentation...

To sum up/To summarize/In brief...

Thank you for being here/Thank you for your attention

Heres my email/phone number

I hope its been useful.

Id be glad to answer any questions