General Guidelines
These guidelines are mainly for the person speaking in front of the class but remember that, as an audience, we have to listen actively and parcipate as much as possible.
Come to class PREPARED!
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Read and follow the instructions in the guide notes for your oral presentaion. You should start preparing the presentation at least two weeks before the deadline following these steps:
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Start brainstorming your topic.
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Start researching and finding your information.
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Write an outline of your presentation. Remember your presentation time is limited.
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Start organising your material and write a rough draft.
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Plan and prepare any visual aids you want to use.
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Write the final version of your project.
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Rehearse at home. Practise your oral presentation in front of your family or friends. You will become more and more confident each time and you will be able to control the time limit.
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Have a good image. Come to school well dressed, as if you had an important social event to attend. DO YOUR BEST!
Have a good POSTURE!
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Look at the audience. Remember you are speaking, not reading so... MAKE EYE CONTACT!
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Stand tall and move around if you need. Be natural!
PROJECT yourself!
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You must speak loud enough so that everybody in the class can hear you.
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Remember to speak slowly and clearly. AVOID MUMBLING!
POLITE PARTICIPATION
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When we are part of the audience and not the speaker, we must listen carefully to our classmates. Everybody´s words are interesting. Remember that one day you will be the speaker and you will also like to be listened to.
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Be respectful and polite! so... No laughing or speaking is allowed. You will have your turn to speak and ask questions at the end of the oral presentation.
Structure of an Oral Presentation
Oral presentations should follow a clear structure. You should include:
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AN INTRODUCTION
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A BODY
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A CLEAR CONCLUSION
1. INTRODUCTION
The aim of your introduction is to get the attention of your audience.
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1. Greet the audience, introduce yourself and reveal your topic to the audience. If the topic is of general interest, explain why it is important for them to learn about. In your introduction you must clearly state the purpose of your presentation.
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2. Create an effective opening that will interest your audience: pose a question, tell a joke, show a shocking photo, give an amazing fact, or tell a short, interesting story.
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3. Give a brief outline of the major points you will cover in your presentation.
2. BODY
In the body of your presentation you should remember to:
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1. Present and explain your main points one by one. Take a moment to pause at the end of each point as this will give your audience time to absorb what you are saying and take any notes.
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2. Use phrases to make it clear that you are moving to a new point. Use transitions between points in your body section. That way, you create clear signals and “signposts” that will guide the audience through your presentation.
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3. CONCLUSION
The aim of the conclusion is to:
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1. Provide a clear summary of your main points.
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2. Indicate to your audience that your presentation has finished.
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3. Thank your audience and handle questions.
Language Help
1. INTRODUCTION
1.1
Greet the audience
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Welcome
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Hello everyone
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Good morning, everyone
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Good morning, ladies and gentlemen.
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Good morning fellow colleagues
Introduce yourself and the topic
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My name is.... and
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I'm going to talk about...
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This morning I'd like to explain...
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My purpose/objective/aim today is...
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What I want to do this morning/afternoon/today is...
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I'm here today to...
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The subject/topic/theme of my talk/presentation is ...
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My topic today is…
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My talk is concerned with...
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I plan to speak about...
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I have chosen to speak about this because...
1.2
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Have you ever heard of...?
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You may already know…
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I feel sure that some of you…
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Every day you encounter...
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Have you ever heard / seen X?
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You've probably seen countless times...
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You may have wondered..
Effective Opening
1.3
Brief Outline of the presentation
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I will focus on the following points...
First of all…then…
This will lead to…
And finally…
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In my presentation I will firstly speak about…secondly… and finally...
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This talk is divided into four main parts.
To start with/Firstly, I'd like to look at...
Then/Secondly, I'll be talking about...
Thirdly...
My fourth point will be about...
Finally, I'll be looking at..
2.2
2. BODY
2.1
Transitions between points
Introduce the first topic.
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Now let us look at the first aspect which is...
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First of all,…
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In the first place...
Making transitions to other topics.
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Let's now move on to/turn to...
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I now want to go on to...
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This leads/brings me to my next point, which is...
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I'd now like to move on to/turn to...
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So far we have looked at... Now I'd like to...
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That's all I would like to say about... (topic A) and now let us turn to...
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Now that we've seen... let us turn t
Other phrases which are useful in a presentation in order to be clear and concrete.
To give examples
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Let me give you an example...
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such as...
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for instance.../for example...
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A good example of this is.../can be found...
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Now let's take an example.
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To illustrate this…
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Let's see this through an example.
To summarise
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What I'm trying to say is...
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Let me just try and sum that up before we move on to...
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So far, I've presented...
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To summarize
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To sum up,
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Let me summarize by saying
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So that concludes my overview
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In conclusion
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Briefly said
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In short, What I've tried to show in this part...
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To recap what we've seen so far...
To mention aspects you had forgotten
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I might just mention...
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Incidentally...
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By the way...
To emphasize
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What is very significant is...
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What is important to remember...
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I'd like to emphasize the fact that...
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I’d like to stress/highlight/underline the importance of...
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What I tried to bring out...
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What we need to focus on...
To refer to what you have said previously
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As I have already said earlier...
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As we saw in part one...
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To repeat what I've said already…
To refer to what you will say
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We will see this a little later on.
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This will be the subject of part 3.
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We will go into more detail on that later.
To refer to what an expert says
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I quote the words of ...
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In the words of…
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According to... Here I'd like to quote…
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As Mr. X says in his book...
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There is a famous quotation that goes...
3. CONCLUSION
3.1
Summing up
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Summing up...
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To summarise...
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So, to sum up...
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To recap...
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Let me now sum up.
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I'd like to summarize/sum up
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At this stage I would like to run through/over the main points...
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So, as we have seen today....
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As I have tried to explain this morning ...
3.2
Conclusion
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Let me end by saying...
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I'd like to finish by emphasising...
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In conclusion I'd like to say...
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Finally, may I say...
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In conclusion I would like to say that...
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My final comments concern...
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I would like to finish by reminding everyone that...
3.3
Thank the audience
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Thank you for your attention/time.
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Thank you very much
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Thank you for listening.
Handling questions
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If you have any questions or comments, I'll be happy to answer them now.
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If there are any questions, I'll do my best to answer them.
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Are there any more questions?
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If there are any questions please feel free to ask.
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