This a short presentation that covers several techniques in delivering a good presentation or a lecture. It is equally useful for both students and teachers.

1. TECHNIQUES TO DELIVER A
PRESENTATION
IRSHAD HUSSAIN
Government College University Faisalabad
COMMUNICATION SKILLS

2. Language
Use of relevant language
Use of appropriate and formal language
Avoidance of jargon
Use of proper vocabulary and diction
Topic relevant terms

3. Mood and Personality
 Be suitably paced
 Be comfortable
 Don’t deliver too quickly
 Don’t deliver too slow
 Judge your audience in order to maintain the tone

4. Visual Aids
Use clear pictures or/videos or other models
Use signposts
Don’t place them on the center of the stage
They help the audience understand the point easily
They help the presenter to deliver the topic clearly
Pause at transitional points
Explain the chunks of information

5. Emphasis
 Emphasize key points
verbally,
non-verbally
vocally
Repetitions of important points

6. Fluency
 Be fluent verbally
 Avoid repeating certain words to make fluency i.e. ‘you
know’
 Avoid using fillers i.e. ‘ummms’, áhhhs’
 Avoid using the same body gestures, movements
 Pauses should not sound unnecessary

7. Content
 Try to be concrete in delivering you content
 Don’t be too word
 Be precise and clear
 Don’t in indefinite

8. Rhetoric
Be dynamic
Be rhetoric
Be enthusiastic about your lecture
Be varied
Encourage if anyone from the audience asks
questions

9. Examples
 Give appropriate example
 Link the previous knowledge of the audience to the present
topic
 Make familiar the new topic to the audience
 Ask questions to the audience to related their knowledge to
the topic being introduced

10. Rehearsal
 Prepare you topic well
 Learn the key points by heart
 Rehearse in-front of a mirror to correct you body gestures
 Practise aloud to make your pitch of voice to be clear

11. Thank you