1. Presentation Skills

2. What are your concerns about preparing or giving a presentation?

3. How might these factors affect your presentation preparation?
Analyse the brief
How long?
Where?
When?
Audience
Ask students to work in twos or threes and discuss how these factors might affect a presentation.
Feed back.
Ensure that the discussion covers the following points.
How long – how much you can cover in given time? The longer the presentation the more interactive it should be.
Where – what equipment is available? Room layout – do you have the option to change it? Room size – will affect how fast you can speak and therefore how much you can cover in your presentation. People and carpet soak up sound thus demands slower speech.
When – after lunch? Don’t drink gallons of juice, this will not help if you are nervous. Last of a run of presentations? If so, probably needs to include more surprises, variation, interactivity.
Audience – how much do they know? If you are all studying the same topic you can pitch it at a higher level than if they know very little about the subject.
How might these factors affect your presentation preparation?

4. Structuring your presentation
Invite and answer questions
Greeting
Introduce yourself
Conclude talk
Summarise main points
Once they have got the content sorted, students then need to check the flow / structure of their presentation. For an academic presentation they should follow the ’10 O’clock news’ format as on screen.
Outline talk
Present main part divided
into Point 1, 2 and 3

5. Preparing a presentation - recap
Analyse the brief / task
Generate ideas and form content
Structure the information
Recap, what you’ve covered so far (just as they should in their presentation)
Which brings you to the bit about visual aids.
Prepare visual aids & prompt cards
Rehearse and fine tune

6.      Tips for the presenter Eye contact
lots of it, engage, interact 
Voice
projected, varied tone, comfortable pitch, pace 
Body language
open, affirmative, confident, stable, relaxed 
Appearance
covered, comfortable, cool, appropriate
Follow up the demonstrations with these points. They should be self explanatory, but may take five minutes to cover in detail. 
Verbalisms
language use, accents, pronunciation, habits

7. Last few tips be well prepared rehearse and time it feign confidence
smile
pauses are ok
be natural
remember it will all be over within minutes
Run through these key points