How to Make a Good Presentation

How to Make a Good Presentation

DO

• Give yourself enough time to plan, edit and rewrite.
• Give yourself enough time to practise, practise and practise.
• Limit the amount of information you give. A report is a much better place to give a lot of information.
• Make sure your script is easy to use. Index cards are better than using notebooks or sheets of paper.
• Remember to look at as many people in your audience as possible.
• Remember to speak clearly and not too fast.
• Pause (five to ten seconds) after showing a visual aid.
• Give the audience time to read before you start speaking again.
• Keep to the time. Many people become impatient with presentations that go on too long.

How to Make a Good Presentation

DON'T

• Look at the ceiling, the floor or out the window.
• Play with pointers, pens or keys.
• Wave your paper or cards around when gesturing.

Expressions to be used while making a presentation

How to address

• Good morning, ladies and gentlemen!
• Dear friends!
• Dear classmates!

How to start off the presentation

• Today I’m going to talk about …
• The topic of my (our) presentation today is ...
• If you have any questions during my presentation, don't hesitate to ask me;
• I would like to talk about ...
• I am going to talk about ...

Expressions to be used while making a presentation

How to refer to a drawing|photo

• As you can see in this photo…
• In my first slide I’d like to show you…
• If you look at the screen you can see…
• On the right is …
• Here is the …
• The slide shows…

Expressions to be used while making a presentation

How to finish the presentation

• In conclusion let me ...
• To sum up…
• Before I (we) end ...
• Thank you for your kind attention (for listening).
• I (we)'ll be happy to answer all your questions.
• That’s all. Thank you.

Connecting words:

• Consequently…
• Therefore ...
• However ...
• Because of ...
• Although ...
• In addition ...
• Since ...
• Also ...
• Because ....
• ... but ...
• ... and ...

• For example ...
• For instance …
• Firstly/Secondly/ Thirdly…
• First ... Next ...
• Then ...
• After that ...
• Finally ... .