Oral Presentation:

Skills You Need to Know

 Writing a Group Speech

 Creating a Presentation
 Practicing Physical Delivery
 Writing the Group Speech

As A Group:
1) Pick a Topic
2) Focus the Topic
3) Write a Thesis (CLAIM)
4) Create an Outline
 Outline
I INTRODUCTION

A. larger topic
B. focused topic
C. context
D. THESIS STATEMENT (claim)
 Outline
II BODY

A. 1st Body Point (Topic Sentence)

1) explanation
2) examples
3) research
B. 2nd Body Point (Topic Sentence)
1) explanation
2) examples
3) research

C. 3rd Body Point (Topic Sentence)

D. 4th Body Point (Topic Sentence)

 Outline
III Conclusion

A. Summary of topic and main points

B. End with larger topic

 Writing the Group Speech
Each Individual Group Member:

1) takes a Body Point

2) does research
3) creates an outline for that part
of the body
4) writes a draft incorporating research
(including oral documentation)
 Writing the Group Speech
As A Group:
1) Peer Edit each others Body drafts
a. each part should be
comparable length
b. check organization of content
c. check grammar and
punctuation
d. check citations
2) Create good transitions between
parts

3) Write the Introduction and

Conclusion
Preparing the Oral Presentation
 Individual Group Members:
1) read through your section of the speech until
you KNOW it
2) create notecards/Powerpoint
3) practice, practice, practice
4) then practice, practice, practice again
 As a Group:
1) split up Intro and Conclusion so each
member has a piece
2) practice speech in order over and over again
3) especially practice transitions from one
speaker to the other
 Preparing Physical Delivery
 BODY

1)Posture
a. Stand up and Balance weight on
feet.
b. Stand up straight, not rigid, but
comfortably straight.
2) Hands – Note Cards
a. Gestures need to be used for
emphasis.
b. Any kind of gratuitous gesturing
can be distracting and needs to be
practiced OUT of any presentation.
3) Eye Contact
a. The presenter’s eyes should be up
MOST OF THE TIME.
b. The speaker needs to practice using
an eye sweep, including everyone in
the audience.
 VOICE

 1) Projection
 a. It is important to project the voice out of the mouth so that
the audience can clearly hear the speaker.
 b. In order to do this the speaker needs to stand up straight,
open the chest cavity and breathe deeply.
 c. The more breath behind the sound, the further the projection.
 2) Pace
 a. When most people get nervous, they speed up vocal
delivery.
 b. Practice the presentation speaking slowly and deliberately.
 3) Pronunciation
 a. To be a credible speaker it is important to correctly
pronounce every word in a speech.
 b. If there is a technical, foreign, or unusual word that
the speaker chooses to use, it is important to get help to
pronounce the word correctly and then practice it over
and over until the pronunciation becomes natural.
 4) Vocal Variety
 a. Most speakers automatically fall into a verbal pattern
that can be absolutely deadly for the audience.
 b. The speaker needs to approach each sentence in the
speech as a separate expression.
 *What is the main point?
 *What word(s) does the speaker need to emphasize?
 *She the speaker slow odw? Speed up? Pause?
 5) Enunciation: a good exercise to work on
using the mouth and breath to enunciate is

 Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.

 A peck of pickled peppers did Peter Piper pick.
 If Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers,
 How many pickled peppers did Peter Piper pick?