Presentation skills, 27 maart 2025

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• havo
• Leerjaar 4

WELCOME VH4F 

27-03-2025

What are we going to do?

1. Start with CNN10 & choose a book (10-12 min.)

2. Have a look at the oral exam & how to prepare for it (20-30 min.)

3. Think about the topic & look up information (15 min.)

Steps to making your presentation

1) Outline the Content: 
    Plan the structure, including introduction, main points, and conclusion, ensuring a logical flow.
2) Gather Information: 
     Research and collect data, statistics, or stories that support your key points.
3) Create Visuals: 
     Use slides and images to enhance your message.
4) Design the Presentation: 
     Select a clean design template, organize text, and ensure consistency in fonts and colors.
5) Practice: 
     Rehearse your presentation to build confidence and refine your delivery.
6) Prepare for Questions: 
     Anticipate possible questions from the audience and prepare responses.

Powerpoint

Your Powerpoint presentation should at least contain the following slides:

- a title slide including what you are presenting about, (and probably a photo/picture)

- a contents page including what you are going to talk about during your presentation

- a couple of slides containing information about the topic/subtopics

- a slide containing the question whether there are any questions

- a final slide with some sort of conclusion

Powerpoint (2)

Powerpoints should be in (correct) English.

You may only use bulletpoints in your slides.

How to give a good presenation

In this lesson you will find tips and useful words and phrases to prepare for your Speaking test: a presentation.

Welcoming your audience

Welcome to my presentation, today … I am … from … and …

Welcome, my name is … and I am a student of …

Good morning/afternoon, everybody, welcome to … my name is … and …

 It’s good to see you all here.

How do you start a presentation and how do you introduce the topic

• Today I am going to talk about...

• Today we’re going to talk about …

• My presentation is divided into four main sections.

• Firstly, secondly, thirdly, finally …

• I’m going to … take a look at… [or] talk about… [or] examine … [or] demonstrate …

• I’d like to talk about / I’d like to present to you today is …

• This morning/afternoon I’ll tell you something about the background … [or] give you some facts and figures …

Keep your audience interested

• Ok … indeed … right … sure …

• I’d now like to move on to …

• I’d like to turn to …

• As I mentioned before, we …

• That’s all I have to say about …

• Now I’d like to look at …

• So, let’s move to …

• This leads me to my next point …

• [pause for a few seconds, this will alert your audience too]

Explaining pictures

• This picture shows you …

• Take a look at this …

• If you look at this, you will see …

• I’d like you to look at this …

• As you can see in this picture ...

• This clearly shows …

• From this, we can understand how / why …

Summarising

• That brings me to the end of my presentation. I’ve talked about …

• Well, that’s about it for now. We’ve covered …

• So, that was my presentation. In brief, I …

• To summarize, I …

• Right, that’s all I wanted to say about …

The qualities of a good presentation

Effective visual aids

Opt for clear and visually appealing slides, engaging images 

Make sure they are relevant to the topic

Engaging delivery

Try to present in an enthusiastic manner.

Maintain eye contact, vary in your tone of voice to keep your audience interested. 

Strong conclusion

In your conclusion explain why you chose this topic and why you find it so interesting