Year 10 - English
ORAL PRESENTATION – TIPS
1. Make sure you respect the time allowance given – 5-8 minutes.
2. MAKE EFFECTIVE NOTE CARDS. Research about your subject and make a page or
two of notes. Next, reduce these notes to headings or keywords which you may refer
to during your talk.
3. KEEP EYE CONTACT. Speak to your audience directly. Don’t read aloud from a
prepared text. Look at your audience, not only at the teacher. Talk to your audience,
not to the screen.
4. If you have any pictures, maps, diagrams, etc., which might add to the interest of
the talk, use them.
5. POWERPOINT TIPS. Write only keywords or short phrases on slides, not complete
sentences.
6. Try to sound interested in your talk. Take particular care at the beginning (HAVE A
STRONG OPENER) and ending of your talk (MEMORABLE CLOSER). Don’t let your talk
just ‘fizzle out'.
7. If you can make your audience laugh or smile near the beginning of your talk, it will
relax them and, more importantly, it will relax you.
8. Why not practice for this activity with your friends/family?