Oral presentation�

• Definition
• Oral presentations also known as public speaking or simply presentations, consist of an individual or group verbally addressing an audience on a particular topic.
• The major steps in oral presentations are
• Planning, structuring, preparing and presenting.

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Planning

Purpose- what is important about your topic?

What are the important events or focus of your presentation?

Audience- To whom are you presenting? what does your audience expect to gain from listening to you?

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Structure

An oral presentation needs an introduction, body and conclusion.

Introduction

Give a brief and relevant anecdote or provocative question to engage your audience or introduce your topic with an engaging sentence or statement.

Body- stay on topic and include all the data and relevant information for presentation.

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Conclusion

• End presentation with a clear concluding statement or a question for the audience to ponder.

Body language

• Remember to smile.
• Maintain eye contact
• Use hand gestures
• Move naturally

Useful phrases for presentation

• Good morning/afternoon everyone and welcome to my presentation.
• As you can see on the screen , our topic today is..
• In my presentation I will focus on three major issues.
• First of all I ‘d like to give you an overview of…
• Next I’ll focus on ….and then we’ll
• Finally, I’d like to address the problem of…..

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