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First I’d say that the key to being a successful public speaker is to put yourself
in the position of the audience. When a presentation fails it’s often because the person
speaking is thinking too much about him or herself, not about the audience.
My main tips about the presentation itself would be: first, don’t make your
presentation too long. And keep to the agreed time: if it is supposed to be 20 minutes,
make sure it doesn’t go on for half an hour. Secondly, don’t have more than four or
five main points. People can’t usually remember more than that anyway, so make
four or five your maximum.
Thirdly, try to only use your normal vocabulary, words which come naturally
to you; don’t experiment with new words – you’ll probably mispronounce them. And
finally, write your notes out in very big writing so you can see each page or
paragraph at a glance.
Well, it’s impossible to completely overcome nerves when you are speaking in
public, but you can learn to cope with their effects.
Remember the audience want you to succeed. They haven’t come to see you
fail.
As far as telling jokes is concerned. I’d say definitely use funny anecdotes from
your personal experience, stories, and things like that. But be careful, for example,
about making jokes about other people or other nationalities. That can be offensive.
Moving on to the most important moment in a presentation, I’d say the beginning is
the most important. If you start badly the audience may go to sleep, or even leave, so
try to start your presentation strongly with your main point, the main message you
want to get across, and then give specific examples.
Exercise 4. Nearly all speakers plan their presentation carefully. Here are three ways
of preparing a presentation.
1. Practice the presentation beforehand and then deliver it without notes.
2. Give the presentation from notes.
3. Write the presentation in full and read it.
I. What are the pros and cons of each approach?
II. Would you prepare a presentation in one of these ways? If not, describe how you
would do it.
Exercise 5. Compare the following presentations, discuss
a) what is wrong with the first one
b) in what ways the second one is better
Presentation 1.
Right. Good. Well, perhaps I’ll start, shall I? Can you hear me all right? Good.
Now … erm … probably the most important thing I’ve got to say is that … well, the
company’s results are looking pretty good this year. Have you all seen the graph of
sales figures? No? Well, I’ve got one here. There you are. Can you see this all right at
the back? No? Well, you’ll have to take my word for it, then. Results are good. Yes.
Very good, actually. But, anyway, I’ll tell you a bit more about that in a minute.
Now, where was I? Um … let’s start with what’s happening at the moment. Would
that be a good idea?
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