Some Tips for a Good Presentation

Engage the audience
Use non-verbal cues, such as making eye contact. Ask the audience questions throughout your presentation.  Questions have added incentive to pay attention to you if they know you may call on them.

Don't read from the screen

You should know the material and tell it directly to the audience in a clear and confident way. 

Apply the KISS principle to your presentation 
Keep it simple, sweetie. Don't distract your audience with slides that contain too much writing, or are too busy with graphs, charts, and other visuals.

Personalize your presentation
Use stories and examples and don’t be afraid to use humour. Humanize it.

Rehearse
Don't simply memorize. Rehearsing the material allows confidence. Practice makes perfect.

Smile
Relax and smile. Practise smiling while you talk.

  

Expect the unexpected

"The better prepared you are, the more able you are to handle when things go wrong and go with the flow."

                                                                Adapted from  7 Big Mistakes to Avoid in Your Next Presentation. grammarly.com

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A presentation in English. Tips

A presentation in English. Tips

How to Make Good Slides for your Presentation

This is a summary of the article 10 tips on how to make slides that communicate your idea, from TED’s in-house expert (Posted by: TED Staff July 15, 2014)

The big picture...
1. Think about your slides last. 
Building your slides should be the tail end of developing your presentation.The slides are just something you layer over it to enhance the listener experience.It’s far more effective when the slides are for the audience to give them a visual experience that adds to the words.
2. Create a consistent look and feel. 
Use the same or related typography, colors and imagery across all your slides. 
3. Think about topic transitions. 
You don’t want each slide to look exactly the same. Create one style for the slides that are the meat of what I’m saying, and then another style for the transitions between topics. 
4.With text, less is almost always more. 
One thing to avoid—slides with a lot of text, especially if it’s a repeat of what you’re saying out loud. If you can’t avoid having text-y slides, try to progressively reveal text (like unveiling bullet points one by one) as you need it.
5. Use photos that enhance meaning. 
Use simple, punchy photos in presentations, because they help what you’re saying resonate in your audience’s mind without pulling their attention from your spoken words. Your photo could be a metaphor or something more literal, but it should be clear why the audience is looking at it, and why it’s paired with what you’re saying.
Tactical tips…
1. Go easy on the effects and transitions.  
If you must use them, use the most subtle ones, and keep it consistent. 
2. Use masking to direct attention in images. 
Follow the technique here
3. Try panning large images.
Rather than scaling the image to an illegible size, or cropping it, you can pan it vertically as you talk about it. In Keynote, this is done with a Move effect, which you can apply from an object’s action panel.
4. For video, don’t use autoplay.
Instead, set the video to click to play. That way you have more predictable control over the video start time, and even select a poster frame to show before starting. 
5. Reproduce simple charts and graphs.
Make it easy on the eyes. You could redraw it to have control over colors, typography, and more. .

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Presentations: Language

Language

If you want your audience to understand your message, your language must be simple and clear.

Use short words and short sentences.

Do not use jargon, unless you are certain that your audience understands it.

In general, talk about concrete facts rather than abstract ideas.

Use active verbs instead of passive verbs. Active verbs are much easier to understand.

Presentations: Conclusion

Presentations: Body

Presentations: Introduction

Tips for your oral presentations