Techniques for Oral Presentation
In your university work, you will be expected to give oral presentations, in the form of reports or simply in the form of (1) . There are several things you can do to make your oral presentations clear and easy to understand.
The essential point to realize is that speech and writing are different. The first principle to keep in mind when you’re planning to speak in public is that you have to help the (2) .
In an oral report, the rate of delivery has to be slower. One of the best ways to help your audience is simply to (3) Beyond the simple (4) , there are ways of organizing your presentation that can help the listener recognize and understand your main points. The organization of your talk should allow enough (5) for the listener to think both before and after each new idea.
The purpose of the time before the new information is to give the audience a chance to understand the (6) clearly. The purpose of the time after the new information allows listeners to fit the idea into their (7) knowledge of the subject. Thinking time gives the listener a chance to make sure the idea was understood before going on to the next new idea.
There are three common ways to give the listener time for thinking after a point of new information. One way is simply to (8) A second method is to use (9) . A third way to give the listener time to think is to use (10) .
In summary, then, we know that oral language should deliver information at a slower rate than you can use in written language. New information should be presented more gradually. Thinking time should be provided both before and after each important new item. There are three most common ways to allow this thinking time.
I hope that these suggestions will help make your oral presentation a great success.