ORAL PRESENTATION
METHOD
CONTENTS
 1.
How To Make A Plan
 2. Questions to keep in mind during the
preparation of your Oral
 3. Advices for your oral presentation
 4. Advice on Group-working (Word
document)
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How to make a plan
I – How to make a plan:
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1/ The Introduction can include things as
background information, the reason for doing the
experiment, and your Hypothesis.
 2/ The Materials and Methods should include
your experimental design, where you describe the
samples you’re testing and controls you’ve
incorporated into the experiment. In addition, you
can do a very brief overview of the major
procedures you performed. Be sure and consider
your audience:
- All the groups did a basic enzyme laboratory, so
there is “no need to repeat the standard
protocols”
- Includes procedures that are different from the
standard protocol, and be sure to present enough of
your protocol so that everyone is clear as to exactly
what you did.
 3/ The Results should be a clear and concise
display and explanation of your data. Your data
should be distilled down to the important facts, and
not necessarily every piece of data you collected.
- However, don’t make the mistake of showing a
figure and saying:
“ This is what we got”
- And then sitting saying nothing else. Walk us
trough the figure.
 4/ Finally, the Discussion will be your
interpretation of your results, such things as if the
data support your hypotheses.
Do you have reason to believe your data?
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Never forget to put in appendix the references of
your data, where did you find them: web sites,
books, and magazines….
 What would you do next time to investigate the
problem further?
 “Each person in your group must speak during
the presentation. The use of visual aids is very
important, we suggest you to print very small
figures and then use the digital projection (Power
Point) system.
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Questions to keep in
mind during the
preparation of your oral
II – In preparing your oral, you may
find it helpful to keep the following
questions in mind:
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1/ Do you clearly state the question you are trying
to answer?
 2/ Is it clear what you did to try and answer your
question?
 3/ Do you explain your results, especially
inconsistent or unexpected results?
 4/ Do you convey why you did the different
conditions in you experiment?
 5/ Did you explain what your data mean?
Can you answer questions from number 1
to 5?
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THE MORE IMPORTANT THING IS HOW
CLEARLY
YOU
PRESENT
YOUR
MATERIALS, WHETHER YOU DISPLAY
UNDERSTANDING OF WHAT YOU DID
AND WHY YOU DID IT, AND IF YOUR
DATA SUPPORT YOUR CONCLUSION.
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But the important thing is to become comfortable
talking in front of a group and to have fun with
your presentation.
3/
Advices for your oral
presentation
Practical hints for giving a
presentation
 General
points
- Timekeeping is vital and is the
responsibility of the presenters.
- Rehearse your seminar; it is very easy to
misjudge timing unless you have had a full
scale rehearsal.
- Think about the most appropriate format for
your presentation.For example: a debate, a
conversation, a shared ‘lecture’.
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Maintaining interest
- Avoid simply reading out an essay. You may well rely
on a script but remember one task is to maintain the
interest of the audience. Your own experience will tell
you that listening to someone reading for eight
minutes is not very exciting.
- Vary the tone of your voice.
- Avoid speaking too quickly.
- Maintain eye contact with people in all parts of the
room.
- Smile.
- Be mobile if not too nervous; if stationary do not
slouch or lean on the wall or table.
- Avoid doing things which distract the audience, e.g.
chewing gum or playing with something.
 Finally
- It is inevitable that you will be
nervous but remember that everyone
will be involved. Try to approach
presentations as a team. You will
obviously support your partner but
also support others whilst they are
giving their presentations: listen and
signal that you are listening; do some
preparatory reading so that you know
what is going on and can join in the
discussion.
Ten ‘Dos’ and ‘Don’ts’
for a student preparing
a presentation
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Lots of background research. Even if the information is
not used in the presentation, it is useful to have as much
knowledge as possible for the discussion and audience
questions.
Be organized - prepare in plenty of time.
Structure your presentation.
Focus on the question set.
Obtain material from a wide range of sources.
Practice your presentation. This helps take away some of
the embarrassment when it is for real, and enables you to
check the timing.
Use note cards.
Speak clearly.
Have eye contact with your audience.
Use clear OHPs (word processed, large font size, use of
bullet points etc.).
DON’T:
9.
Leave research and preparation until the last
minute.
Rely on one source of data.
Make it up.
Just hope that it will come together on the day
without preparation and practice.
Have no notes to rely on if you get stuck.
Worry too much - its not as bad as it seems.
Mumble.
Read from a script.
Rush the presentation by speaking too fast.
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Go over the time allotted for the presentation.
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