ENGLISH FOR TEACHERS 11

PDED 0021/DED 0321

ORAL PRESENTATION SKILLS

Mr. Msellem M. Ali

 Individual Assignment
15 MARKS
Deadline Next Saturday

 Prepare a sample of your Oral Presentation

about any topic of your specialization covering
all aspects of Introduction of Oral
presentation.
 Record a 4-6 minutes video clip using smart
phone
 Collect your clips in group of not less than 5
members and Submit them to course lecturer
in USB with the name and registration number
of each of the recorded persons.
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Important things to consider in your
presentation which might affect your scores

• Do not look like reading but rather speaking

• Sound and view of the presenter are well
cached
• Avoid noise existing around and light
disturbance
• Be confident and face camera as your
audiences
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Oral Presentation/Public speaking

What is it?

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Oral presentation
• Oral presentation or public speaking is a
specific form of communication i.e. the art of
speaking in a structured manner on a particular
topic in front of a group for a specific purpose
at a specific time and place.
• The ability to do such a presentation is not a
natural one but rather a skill that must be
learned and developed.
• A good oral presentation is well structured;
structure makes it easier for the listener to
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STRUCTURE OF AN ORAL PRESENTATION

• A typical presentation has three parts: the

beginning, the middle and the end, also
called the introduction, body and conclusion.
In the beginning you say what you are going
to say. In the body you say what you want to
say and in the conclusion you say what you
have said. This is the golden rule for an
effective presentation.

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1. THE BEGINNING OR THE INTRODUCTION

• The beginning of a presentation is the most

important part.
• It serves to get the audience’s attention and
give a good idea of what is to follow.
• It prepares the audience for what it is going
to hear and what it should get out of listening
to the speech.

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1.1 Get the audience's attention and signal
the beginning
• Right. Well. OK.
• Good. Fine. Great.

 Shall we start?
 Let’s begin.
 Can we start?

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1.2 Greet audience
• It is important to greet the audience by saying
something like:
 Hello ladies and gentlemen.
 Good morning members of the jury.
 Good afternoon esteemed guests
 Good evening members of the board
Fellow students Fellow
colleagues,

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1.3 Introduce yourself, (name, position, and
institution/company)
• The purpose of introducing yourself is to
identify yourself for the audience but also to
establish expertise on or experience of the
subject thus providing credibility and
allowing the audience to see where you are
coming from.

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• Good afternoon ladies and gentlemen, let me
introduce myself.
• Good morning everyone, I'd like to start by
introducing myself.
• My name is...

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• Good morning, my name is Yussuf Ameir. I am
a student at State University of Zanzibar
…………………………………………. ……………..
………………………………………………………. and I
would like to talk to you today about some of
my findings in a study I did on…

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• Sometimes, especially when invited to speak,
the host introduces the guest, by giving the
same information as above and then the
floor to the guest speaker.
 I am very pleased and proud to introduce …
who is…. He/she is known for… Now I'll hand
over the floor over to today's speaker.

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1.4 Give title and introduce subject

• What exactly are you going to speak about?

Give the title.
• The title should be specific to effectively
communicate the topic of the presentation to
the audience.
• Give a rough idea or a working definition of
the subject: i.e. in a few words what the topic
of the speech is.

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• I plan to speak about...
• Today I'm going to talk about...
• The subject of my presentation is...
• The theme of my talk is...
• I've been asked to give you an overview of...

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1.5 Give your objectives (purposes, aims,
goals)
• A speech should have two purposes: a
general purpose and a specific one. The
general purpose of an informative speech is
to have the audience understand and
remember a certain amount of information:
the current situation or how to do something
or how something is done.

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What I would like to do today is ….to explain
 to illustrate...
 to give you the essential background
information on...
 to outline...
 to have a look at...
 to present…
 …….to summarize…

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1.6 Announce your outline (also called the
agenda)
• You want to keep the outline short and
simple; two or three main points are usually
enough. The headings of the outline should
be of the same grammatical form.
• Depending on the context or specific cultural
environment, the outline may or may not
appear on a slide.

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• I have broken my speech down/up into X
parts.
• I have divided my presentation (up) into Y
parts.
• In the first part I will give a few basic
definitions.
• In the next section I will explain
• In part three, I am going to show...
• In the last part I would like/want to give a
practical example

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1. 7 Questions and comments from the
audience
• It is a very good idea to inform the audience during the
introduction of your policy on asking questions. It is up to
you to decide when and whether you will accept
questions.
 I'd ask you to save your questions for the end.
 There will be plenty of time at the end of my speech for a
discussion.
 You may interrupt me at any moment to ask questions or
make comments.
 Please stop me if you don't understand anything I say but
could you keep any specific questions until after I've
finished.
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1.8 Make a transition between the
introduction and the body
• Let the audience know that you have finished
the introduction by making a transition to the
body11.
 Now let us turn to point one.
 Let us now move on to the second part, which
is, as I said earlier….

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2 THE MIDDLE OR THE BODY
• 2.1 Content
• What and how much information should you
include in your speech? All your information
should support your purpose. In most cases you
will have to limit the content, as time is
precious!
• 2.2 Quantity
• How much information should you give? Enough
to clearly develop your ideas. Illustrate your
ideas through convincing, concrete examples.
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• 2.3 Sequencing the content
• There are many ways of organizing content:
logical; chronological order; cause/effect;
problem/solution; from general to specific;
from known to unknown; from accepted to
controversial. Whatever sequencing you
choose, the headings should be all of the
same grammatical form.

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• 2.4 Keeping the audience's attention
• The beginning and the end of a talk are what
listeners will pay most attention to and
hopefully remember. You therefore need to
make an effort to keep the audience's
attention throughout the middle of the
speech.

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3. THE END OR CONCLUSION
• The end of a presentation should summarize
key information presented and may include
some kind of final call to action, or opening
to other (related) issues.
• It should never come as a surprise to an
audience or be abrupt.

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• The end or the conclusion of a presentation
should include: a brief reminder of what you
tried to show in your speech and how you
tried to do so, a short conclusion, thanks to
the audience for listening, and an invitation
to ask questions, make comments or open a
discussion.

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• To signpost the end of your talk you may say.
 I'd like to summarize/sum up
 At this stage I would like to run through/over
the main points...
 So, as we have seen today....
 As I have tried to explain

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• Then you should give some kind of
conclusion, i.e. you should give a message
that logically comes out of the ideas
developed in your speech. It may have been
the specific aim given in the introduction.
• Other possibilities include: a commentary,
the lessons learned, some recommendations,
or the next steps. You could also make a call
to action; the audience should have to do
something.
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The last important thing:
• Thank the audience for being there.
 Thank you very much for your time/attention.

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Other things to consider
• Use the given time appropriately
• Effective use of gestures and body language
• Facial expression
• Smartness
• Passion of what you are doing
• Have enough knowledge of what you present
• Good handling and responding of the asked
questions
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