Giving a Presentation

Before you give a presentation. It is important to know your audience. Knowing who they are, their familiarity with the topic, and their purposss in attending your preparatiion, will help you organize your thoughtd appropriately. After that, you can di these steps of preparatiion. 

1. Analyze your audience. 

2. Select a topic. 

3. Decide the purpose of presentation. 

4. Prepare the body of the presentation. 

5. Prepare the introduction and conclusion. 

There are three parts of presentation as follows:

Introduction:

You tell what you intend to do and how you intend to do it. 

Main Body:

You state your points: information and argument. 

Conclusion:

You summarize and invite questions. 

When your content of your preparatiion is ready, you can do the presentation. Here are some stages of presentation and the expression used. 

Greeting:

Good morning) afternoon/evening, everyone. Welcome to my presentation. 

Introduction:

Today, I am going to talk about... 

The topic of my presentation is... 

As you can sss on tge screen, our topic today is... 

I'm planning to tell you about... 

Outline:

I'm going to divide my presentation into ... 

I would like to begin with... Then, ... There will be time for question and answer session at the end.

In my presentation, I'll focus on (three major issues) . 

The presentation is structured as follows.... 

Presentation the topic (sequencing):

First of all/firstly...

Secondly, ... 

Then,... 

Next,... 

Following this, ... 

Finally/lastly...

Summarizing:

To sum up, ... 

In conclusion, ... 

In short, ... 

In sumarry, ... 

As I pointed out earlier. 

I'd like to recap the main points. 

We're coming to the end of the presentation. We have discussed... 

Inviting:

Any questions? 

Please feel free to ask me questions. 

If you have any questions. 

I'll be happy to take any questions now. 

When giving a presentation, we sometimes use visuals. Here are expressions to refer to visuals. 

You will notice on this chart... 

Looking at the slide, we can see... 

Have a look at this picture,... 

During the presentation, you want to make sure that the audience are listening. After you check their understanding, and then you move on. So, you can use the following expressions. 

Is it clear? 

Do you follow that? 

Let's look ar the next slide. 

Now, let's move on to... 

Let's turn to the topic of...