Presentation Tactics for Students, Lecturers and Educators.

The success of a presentation depends on preparation. In this lesson you will see the specific steps that lead to you becoming the most interesting person in the room.

A big assumption that a lot of presenters make is that they believe the audience thinks in the same way as they do (if a presenter ever considers the audience at all!). In this lesson we look at the inevitable perception gap between you and the audience and how to deal with it.

Now that you know about the perception gap between the presenter and the audience, it is time to research your audience. In this lesson we look at how to build an audience profile so that you can adapt your content to their perspective.

The Big Idea represents a vision that could inspire your audience. It is this component that motivates your audience and makes your presentation more memorable. This lesson introduces some ideas on how you can include the Big Idea into a presentation.

First impressions count! And then, at the end, the audience needs to remember what they can get from your talk. Therefore it is really good if you start and end strongly. This lesson reminds you how to start and end effectively.

In this lecture we look at the technical factors that affect pronunciation. By looking at these, you will understand how to speak in an engaging way. This lesson also covers the tactic of making a script of some, or all, of your talk and marking it up so that you improve your delivery. Please note that this lesson applies to the pronunciation of English, not other languages.

Practice makes progress. Practice makes perfect. If you practice your talk, you will have a much higher chance of success. In this lesson we look at some tips for practice.

Your audience want to know what they can get from attending and listening to your presentation. This message can be delivered through the CTA - The Call To Action. Follow this lesson to get some ideas on how to identify and express your CTA.

This lecture introduces the lessons in this section.

Story is a hot topic in presentation tactics, so let's start here! This lesson discusses the concept of story and shows a few examples of how it can be used. Watch this lecture and then get more details in the next lecture.

Build your story using these components. When you understand the parts of a story, it becomes much easier to create them for your presentations. This lecture outlines the important components of a story.

The numbered list is a good, reliable way to organise content. This lecture looks at how to use this framework.

In this lecture there is a useful tip on how to make sure your audience knows where they are in a presentation.

The three point system works really well and is a popular way to organise content. In this lesson we get a good understanding of how the three point system works.

The Chronology framework describes content organised along a timeline. This lecture looks at how to use the chronology framework.

Since it is very common to use contrasts in the body of a presentation, this lecture looks at how to organise this type of content.

Diagrams and infographics are used a lot in presentations, but we need to consider how we organise these types of visual assets. This lecture emphasises the importance of breaking down the individual parts of an infographic or diagram.

This lecture starts by looking ow to use visual assets with your content.

Get Graphic Now! This lecture covers some tactics of graphic design that you can quickly and easily use to make your slides look great. Don't miss this one!

Most presenters need to show data as part of their content. This lecture looks at how you can display data well.

This video demonstrates the easy way to make predesigned slides work better for you.

This is the first in a series of lectures about how to make comparisons in English.

This is the second lecture in the series on how to make comparisons. Note that the slides of this lecture are available in the previous lecture.

This is the third lecture in the series on how to make comparisons. Note that the slides of this lecture are available to download from lecture #24

This is the fourth lecture in the series on how to make comparisons. Note that the slides of this lecture are available to download from lecture #24

This lesson looks at how to use 'while' or 'whilst' in your sentences. Note that the slides for this lecture are downloadable as part of lecture #24

This lecture covers useful language for situations such as giving examples, referring to points and others

Learn how to use language that identifies reason - result relationships.

As well as reason result, we also have cause and effect. Learn how to signal this relationship in this lecture.

In this lecture we look at how to point out parts of a diagram.

As students, lecturers and educators, you might well need to be tentative with your conclusions. This lecture shows you how to do it.

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