Presentation – Week 1

Getting started with Presentation skills

Purpose of the course
Course outline
◦ The importance of a good presentation
◦ The preparation for a presentation
 Plan
 Preparation of audio-visual aids
◦ The presentation skills
◦ A presentation layout
◦ Communicating with the audience
◦ Evaluate the effectiveness of a presentation
◦ Practice presentation
Assessment
 Midterm: Individual/group presentation
 Final: 6-min individual presentation

Students need to prepare their files on the

laptop, CD, or USB before they are called to
the examination room.
Assessment Criteria
Assessment Criteria
Assessment Criteria
Reasons for giving a demonstration
(choose your topic)
 • If you need to communicate time-critical information to a large
group of people
 • If you need to persuade an audience to make a choice, change
their mind, take a set of actions or pass on information to others,
and you need to do it in person
 • If the audience is interested, concerned or needs to hear what
you are going to say
 • If you need to teach skills or give information cost effectively to
more than three or four people at once
 • If you have a clear set of objectives for the presentation
 • If attending the presentation will act as a bonding exercise for the
people involved
 • If you have the time, energy and commitment to make the
presentation
Benefits of a successful presentation
Why do people listen to presentation?
• Make money or save money
• Save time or effort
• Make them comfortable
• Improve their health
• Save them pain
• Make them popular, famous
• Attract the opposite sex
• Help them to take advantage of
opportunities
• Help them to be unique
• Help them to protect their reputation
• Help them to gain control
• Keep them safe
• Gain them praise
• Conserve their possessions
• Increase their enjoyment
• Satisfy their curiosity
•Protect their family/business
•Make them stylish
•Satisfy their appetites
•Allow them to copy others
•Give them beautiful things
•Give them good ideas
•Give them an expert vocabulary
•Help them to take advantage of
opportunities
•Help them to choose between
options
•Confirm their expertise
•Solve problems for them
•Amuse them
•Give them an inside view
•Confirm their decisions
•Open new markets for them
•Help them to avoid criticism
•Help them to avoid trouble
3 stages of memorization
 spoken  black and white
words
 pictures
 photographs  sounds
 actions Medium-  smells
 rhyme term
 Texture  feelings
 music
 places
 written words
Short-term  feelings
 tastes
 colors

Call for action Long-term

How to become a good presenter
 1. LEAVE NOTHING TO CHANCE
 2. KNOW EXACTLY HOW TO START

 3. GET STRAIGHT TO THE POINT

 4. TALK TO YOUR AUDIENCE  10. BE YOURSELF

 5. KNOW WHAT WORKS  11. TAKE YOUR TIME
 6. BE CONCISE  12. DON'T MAKE A SPECIAL EFFORT TO
 7. SPEAK NATURALLY BE FUNNY
 8. KNOW YOUR AUDIENCE  13. LET YOUR VISUALS SPEAK FOR

 9. TREAT YOUR AUDIENCE THEMSELVES

 14. NEVER COMPETE WITH YOUR
AS EQUALS
VISUALS
 15. DEVELOP YOUR OWN STYLE

 16. ENJOY THE EXPERIENCE

 17. WELCOME QUESTIONS FROM YOUR

AUDIENCE
 18. FINISH STRONGLY
Getting started
The three messages in the speech
Introduction
SIX HELPERS
 Who
 What
 Why
 Where
 When
 How
Introduction
Effective openings
 Problems
 Amazing facts
 Stories
Effective Openings

 Involve listeners
Outline
 So, I’ll start off by…
 And then I’ll go on to talk about…
 Finally, I will summarize/propose a

solution/make a suggestion…

 First, …
 Second,/ next,
 I’ll wrap up my talk with a suggestion on… at

the end of my talk

Conclusion
 Wrap up all the key points in the body
 Present your final slide with power, polish,

professionalism, and with a positive tone.

Practice in pair
You are working as a teacher in one of the reputed schools in
the neighborhood and your target audience is the local group of
principals.
You have introduced a new course which has caused ripples in

the academic world. Your purpose of communicating with the

principals of schools is to give them details of the new module.
Your purpose is to inform and convince them to introduce the

course in their respective schools.

The presentation, to be a value add, has to be a combination of

information and persuasion—information

on the course and persuasion that the course be introduced for
the benefit and growth of your students.