This document provides tips for making effective oral presentations. It recommends using slides as minimal cues rather than reading scripts, making eye contact with the audience to show confidence and interest, practicing multiple times with others to refine timing and delivery, modeling techniques from strong presenters while maintaining an authentic style, and relaxing by smiling and seeing it as a casual conversation.

1. Tips for Making Oral
Presentations

2. Introduction
 Do you feel sick hearing “oral presentation”?
 You are not alone…
 most people fear public presentations more than
DEATH!
 The following tips will
make it easier

3. Don’t Write Out Your
Presentation Word for Word
 slides are not cue cards
– don’t read from them
 contain minimal
information
 in large type, easy to
read and understand
 short and to the point

4. Make Eye Contact
 look at audience
 show confidence in topic
 eye contact shows you are
interested in your subject
and audience
 keeps you from reading
your presentation

5. Practice…More than Once!
 Ask others to listen to you
practice
 Talk to your mirror or record
your presentation
 time your talk to make sure
it meets time guidelines

6. Model Your Presentation
 Model your presentation
based on best presenter
you know – a teacher,
parent, friend
 Use their techniques to
keep class engaged/
interested
 Model their voice
inflections, enthusiasm,
while still being yourself!

7. Breathe and Smile
 Relax
 Pretend it’s a
conversation with
friends
 Your classmates are
just as nervous as
you!