The document is a lecture outline on presentation skills by Zafar Ullah, covering definitions, steps, and tips for effective presentations. It emphasizes the importance of planning, preparation, and practice, while also addressing audience engagement and handling questions. Key recommendations include maintaining a professional appearance, using visuals wisely, and ensuring clarity and structure to avoid common pitfalls that make presentations ineffective.

1. Presentation Skill
Lecture No. 23
Zafar Ullah, lecturer in English zafarullah76@gmail.com

2. Outline
• Definition
• Steps in presentation
• Appearance
• Your presentation
• Dealing with questions
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3. Why to Learn Presentation
• Professional life
• New projects
• New developments in your domain
• Present research papers/ projects
• Job interview
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4. Presentation Skills Definition
• Ideas, concepts or issues talked about or
spoken to a group or audience/ job/ demo
for teaching, marketing

5. 1. Plan
2. Prepare
3. Practice
4. Present
Steps in Giving Presentation

6. • Who is your audience?
• Why are they there?
• What is your goal?
• How long will it be?
• Where will it take place?
• When? Soon or later
• How? Digital, online, face to face
1.Planning . Raise Questions

7. Start your Outline
• No Powerpoint
• Film with no script
• Pencil & Paper
• Order your thoughts
• Key points

8. Introduction
Main theme
Summary/
Conclusions
Sound, clear Structure of Presentation
Get Attention
2-3 minutes
Content
15 minutes
Key message
3 minutes

9. 2.Preparation: Speaker’s 3 Friends
1. Personal Notes
2. Visuals
3. Handouts

10. – Too much text
– Too small to read
– a crutch for the presenter
– Clip Art and boring Slide templates
– Over dazzling animations
– PowerPoint should be a supporting aid –
– Avoid too many bullets as well –

11. 10/ 20/ 30 Rule
“should have ten slides,
Presentation time is no more than twenty
minutes,
and contain no font smaller than thirty
points.” Guy Kawaski
Use colour coding to emphasize

12. Integrate High Quality Images
Use images to
support your point
Use a consistent
theme

13. 3. Practice (room, tech) Practice
makes a man perfect.

14. Appearance
• Pleasing personality
• Formal dress code with tie for boys
• Formal dress according to organization
• Not showy
• Not wedding dress, no jeans
• Neat and clean but not over makeup
• No old nail polish
• Appearance of decent and sober person
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15. Pronunciation
• Pronunciation
• Rise and fall
• Clear voice
• audible
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16. • Lack of experience
• Lack of preparation
• Lack of enthusiasm
• Negative self-talk
Feeling Nervous?

17. Dealing with Nervousness
• Be prepared
– Plan and rehearse
• Deep breathing!
– Sit close to the stage
• Engage with your audience
– Makes you feel more relaxed
– Create interest in audience

18. • Be over-prepared
• Focus on your goal
• Rehearse and practice
• Know your subject
• Use relaxation techniques
• Make audience comfortable
• Be positive +++
• Avoid stressors
Becoming Confident

19. 4. Presentation.
The most powerful visual aid
• words
• voice
• body language

20. Take a strong start. Use Hooker, Joke,
Fact, Story

21. Show your passion

22. Smile but not mechanically

23. Dealing with Questions of Audience
TRACT technique
1. Thank the questioner
2. Repeat the question
3. Answer the question
4. Check with the questioner if they are
satisfied
5. Thank them again

24. What makes a talk poor? Avoid
• Little/no eye contact
– No engagement with the audience
• Mumbling
– Often because not engaging with audience
• Reading from a paper
– Too fast, monotone
• Little/no structure
– Lack of clarity
• Too much information
• Bad visual aids

25. Your Presentation
• Get a list of best selling books
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_best-selling_books
• https://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/2012/aug/09/best
-selling-books-all-time-fifty-shades-grey-compare
• Download the books: https://b-
ok.asia/?regionChanged=&redirect=20880996
• The best thing is to read any book completely and write its
summary.
• Last and lower level option: You can take book summary from
internet.
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26. Cont…
• Make ppt slide with best visuals. Just write
hints/ headings
• 5 minutes Presentation in the class.
• Ted talk style presentation
• It carries 10 marks.
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27. Thanks
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28. Question Answers
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