The document provides presentation tips and guidelines for students. It includes suggestions for choosing a topic, introducing yourself and the topic, presenting the main content through an outline and subtitles, using visual aids, engaging the audience with questions, concluding, and timing and assessment criteria. The tips cover greeting the audience, setting goals and objectives, maintaining structure and flow, using images and graphs, eye contact, and concluding by summarizing key points and thanking attendees.

1. Presentation Tips
B1-1
• By: Maia Kutateladze

2. Topic for Presentations
1. Family life
2. Men and women
3. Interview (job,
newspaper, place at
university, etc,
4. Fact or fiction
5. Film or book
6. Crime
7. Teenagers life
8. Technologies: old or
modern
9. Misunderstanding
10.Millionaires life
11.Dream job
12.Communication: old
or modern
13.Children: dealing with
their questions
14.Dealing with anger
15.The virtual revolution

3. Title of a presentation
Name Surname
1st year student
…… University

4. GREETING, INTRODUCING YOURSELF
• Good morning/afternoon…
• My name is… First of all, I’d like to thank you
for coming today…
• Let me introduce myself… my name is…

5. INTRODUCING THE TOPIC
• Today I am here to talk to you about…
• I’m going to talk to you about…
• What I am going to talk about today is…
• I would like to take this opportunity to talk to you about…
• I am delighted to be here today to tell you about…
• I want to make you a short presentation about…
• I’d like to give you a brief breakdown of…
• I’d like to say a few words/I’d like to talk to you today
about…
• Let me explain/describe briefly to you what I’m going to
talk about…
• Let me briefly take you through what I’ll be talking about
today…

6. Contents
• 1 (write a subtitle)
• 2 (write a subtitle)
• 3 (write a subtitle)
• 4 (write a subtitle)
• 5 (write a subtitle)
Introduce your points to
the audience,
or give just general
outlines,
or just say 1-2
sentences why you have
chosen the topic
EXPLANATION OF
GOALS
The purpose of this
presentation is…
My objective today is…

7. MAIN PART
• My talk/presentation is divided into “x” parts.
• I’ll start with…/First, I will talk about…/I’ll begin with…
• …then I will look at…
• …next…
• and finally…
• OK, let’s start by looking at…
• So, let’s start by…
• Right, let’s move on to the…
• Before going on I’d like to mention…
• OK finally I’d like to
• OK, that’s all I wanted to say about

8. Subtitle
• It is better to give subtitle to each slide.
• You start talking about your topic.

9. STARTING POINT
• Let me start with some general information on…
• Let me begin by explaining why/how…
• I’d like to give you some background information
about…
• Before I start, does anyone know…
• As you are all aware…
• I think everybody has heard about…, but hardly
anyone knows a lot about it.

10. QUESTIONS DURING THE
PRESENTATION
• Does anyone have any questions or comments?
• I am happy to answer your questions now.
• Please feel free to interrupt me if you have
questions.
• If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate
to ask.
• Please stop me if you have any questions.
• Do you have any questions before I move on?
• If there are no further questions at this point, I’d
like to…

11. • You should not put whole texts on the slides.
• You should present information with the help
of general sentences, bullet points or pictures.

12. GRAPHS AND IMAGES
• Let me use a graphic to explain this.
• I’d like to illustrate this point by showing you…
• Let the pictures speak for themselves.
• I think the graph perfectly shows how/that…
• If you look at this table/bar chart/flow
chart/line chart/graph, you can see that…

13. It is better to talk rather than read presentation

14. • You should maintain eye contact with the
audience
• ask some question to the audience in the
process of presentations, it will raise interest
of audience towards your presentation

15. Conclusion /summary
• Say what have you find new
• Your personal attitude
towards the issue
• Some recommendations

16. CONCLUSION
• To sum up…
• Let’s summarize briefly what we have looked at.
• Here is a quick recap of the main points….
• I’d like to recap the main points.
• Well, that’s about it for this part. We’ve covered…
• ’d like to conclude by…
• In conclusion, let me sum up my main points.
• Weighing the pros and cons, I come to the conclusion that…
• That brings me to the end of my presentation. Thank you
for listening/your attention.
• Thank you all for listening. It was a pleasure being here
today.
• Well, that’s it from me. Thanks very much.
• That brings me to the end of my presentation. Thanks for
your attention.

17. • Thank you for your attention
• Ready to answer questions
• I’ll gladly answer any of your questions at the
end.
• I’d be grateful if you could ask your questions.
The audience
should ask at
least two
questions

18. CLOSE YOUR TALK
• Right, let’s stop here. Thank you very much for your
attention.
• OK, let’s stop here. I’d like to finish by thanking you all
for your attention.
• If you have any questions, I’d be pleased to answer
them…
• And now, if anyone has any questions, I’ll be happy to
try to answer them.
• I’d be happy to answer any questions.
• I would welcome any comments and suggestions.
• Thank you for your attention.

19. Timing
• The time for the whole group is 3 hours – 1
lectures.
• Each student – 5-8 minutes
• 5 -6 minutes are for individual oral
presentation
• 2-3 minutes - for follow-up questions and a
discussion.

20. Assessment
• Individual presentation – 5 points (no benchmark)
• Contents
• Structure
• Language: syntax, grammar, vocabulary, pronunciation
• Delivery
• Visualisation

21. Content – points - 2, 1, 0
• Student is well prepared; presentation is in line with
the topic. Topic/problem is analysed assertively;
interesting facts and details are provided.
• Student is fairly prepared; presentation content is
mostly relevant to presentation topic. Student
attempts at analyzing topic/problem assertively; few
interesting facts and details are provided
• Student is not prepared; presentation content is totally
irrelevant or student doesn’t give any presentation at
all

22. Structure – points – 2, 1, 0
• Student delivers a presentation through
straightforward, logical and consistent format
• Student delivers a presentation. However, some
distortion of logical consistency is evident
• Student delivers a presentation which is neither
consistent nor logical or student doesn’t give any
presentation at all

23. Language – points – 2, 1, 0
• student’s speech delivery in English is mostly tangible
through appropriate use of lexical units, terms and
grammatical structures related to presentation topic.
Speech is connected without pauses impeding
communication
• student’s speech delivery in English is more or less
tangible. There is an attempt at connected speech
delivery. However, there are some pauses impeding
communication
• student’s speech is mostly incomprehensible or
student doesn’t give any presentation at all

24. Delivery – points – 2, 1, 0
• Student is able to provoke and sustain audience’s interest
which ends in discussion. Student establishes eye contact
with the audience, uses gestures, mimes and intonation
appropriately. Allocated time is thoroughly used.
• Student attempts at provoking and sustaining audience’s
interest. Student establishes eye-contact with the
audience. However, intonation is monotonous. Allocated
time is not thoroughly used or student does not manage to
complete the presentation within the time limit.
• Student does not manage to establish contact/ rapport
with the audience or student doesn’t give any presentation
at all.

25. Visualization – points – 2, 1, 0
• The use of visual aids/material is relevant to the
presentation topic. The information presented on the
slides/posters/board is essential and not redundant
• The use of visual aids/material is relevant to the
presentation topic. However, the information
presented on the slides/posters/board is redundant
• The use of visual aids/material is totally irrelevant to
the presentation topic or student doesn’t give any
presentation at all