How to Make a Presentation

Dear students,

In this module, you are going to give presentations in your portfolio hours and your first experience is on October 10, 2013. So, this blog post aims to help you with your presentations.

Before we move on, I would like to remind you that you can find all portfolio related files on SFL website. You can simply click on the following link to visit the A2 portfolio webpage: http://sfl.bou.edu.tr/?P_A2

GOOD and BAD EXAMPLES

So, let's get the ball rolling. First of all, please watch the video below. On the video you will see some DO's and DON'Ts while you are giving your presentation. These good and bad examples will help you for sure.

Source: Hussain Shafei - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S5c1susCPAE
Well, some questions when preparing for your presentation might be: 'How should I start my presentation?', 'What will I say?', 'Are there any specific phrases I can use?' and etc. So, please find below some useful phrases you can use while presenting. 
USEFUL PHRASES FOR PRESENTATIONS
Introduce yourself 

Good morning/afternoon Ladies and Gentlemen, my name is X from Y (name of company, country etc) ... 

Introduce the topic 

Today/This morning I'm going to talk about/I'd like to talk about ... 

The aim of my presentation is to … 

I'd like to tell you a little about ... 

List what the stages of your presentation are 

I've divided my presentation into X parts. 

First, I'd like to talk about ... 

Second, ... 

Then, (I'll move on to/consider/deal with/focus on) ... 

After that, ... 

Next, ... 

Introducing a new section

Let's move on to ... 

Moving on to ...

This leads to ... 

Let's turn to ... 

Finally ...

Moving backwards and forwards 

As I mentioned earlier, ... 

I'll be talking more about this later. 

I'll return to this point. 

Using visual information 

This slide/diagram/transparency shows ...

If you look at this graph it shows that … 

What is interesting here is ... 

I'd like to draw your attention to ... 

Replying to difficult questions (when you don't have an answer or don't want to answer a question) 

That's a good point. 

I'll come to that later if you don't mind. 

I'm afraid I don't have that information to hand. 

I'm afraid I'm not the right person to answer that. 

How long will you speak for and do you want to answer questions? 

I'm going to speak for about X minutes/hours/days. 

Please keep any questions until the end.

If you have any questions please feel free to interrupt. 

I'd be happy to answer any questions at the end. 

Summing up 

So, to summarise, … 

In conclusion, ... 

That concludes my talk. If you have any questions I'll do my best to answer them.

Source: http://www.lct-waidmayr.at/language_for_presentations.htm

Other sources you can read are listed below:

How to give a presentation?
-http://www.wikihow.com/Do-a-Presentation-in-Class

Useful presentation phrases
- http://tr.scribd.com/doc/7672859/Useful-Phrases-for-Presentations-
- http://speakspeak.com/resources/general-english-vocabulary/presentation-language-phrases
- http://www.englishclub.com/speaking/presentations-lang.htm

Hope this post helps you with your presentations.