Oral presentation guidelines. How can we prepare effective presentations in english

Outline
Three components for presenting and teaching
Message: What to keep in mind
Audience: What to keep in mind
Speaker: What does she/he need to do?
Mode and multimodality
Steps of a presentation
“Rules of thumb”
Tactics to design slices

1. Three components for presenting and teaching:
Message
Audience
Speaker

2. Message: What to keep in mind
Topic: Research, purpose, focus.
Motivation: How to capture attention.
Structure: Organisation, audience involvement.

3. Audience: What to keep in mind
Background
Numbers
Expectations
How to involve

4. Speaker: What does she/he need to do?
Know audience
Prepare message
Positive thinking
Dress for success!

5. Mode and multimodality: Define
Mode: Way we represent and communicate meaning.
Different modes: Spoken, written, images, body language.
Multimodality: Using/combining modes.
Mode orchestration: Speaker.

6. Steps of a presentation:
Slide with title: Beginning and end.
Greet and introduce yourself.
Connect with the audience.
Capture attention and hold it.
Have clear objectives.

Enumerate points to be covered.
Cover the points!
Summarise.
Ask questions.
End: Lead to further thought.
Thank for attention.

7. “Rules of thumb”:
Speak naturally
Concise and clear
Logical order
Connect your points: Discourse markers
Stress key words: Tone and intonation

8. Tactics to design slices:
Colour scheme
Font size: 28+
Quantity of words and lines: 5 and 5-7
Reveal only what you refer to

Balance image and written text
Special effects: Caution
Quantity of slides: 3 minutes/slide
Time to digest
Highlight key words

How to design slices, an example:
1.Name, the title of presentation, date and institutional logo.(1 slide)
2.Outline: presentation structure, the main points. Highlight key words (1 slide)
3.Presentation of main body of the talk (2 minutes x slide)
4.Summary and conclusion: points stated (1 slide)
5.Closing remarks (1 slide)