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Oral assessment

Informative presentations

Persuasive speaking presentations

Topic or issue for your oral

Audience for your oral

Environment for your oral

Narrowing down your topic

Researching the topic

Setting up the orals structure

Persuasive oral structure

Statement and supporting evidence

Pros and cons

Problem and solution

The Monroe motivated sequence

Attention

Need

Satisfaction

Visualisation

Action

Informative oral structure

Chronological

Topical breakdown

Examples

Choosing a delivery mode

Rehearsing

Number your palm cards

Visual aids

Presentation props

Anticipate questions

Practice runs

Voice

Volume

Clarity

Speed

Pauses

Inflection

Umms Ahhs Errs Hmmms Y know Y get me

Variety

Swearing

Nonverbal communication

Eye contact

Facial expressions

Posture

Hair

Clothes

Hands and arms

Position

Movement

Need

Regarding need, you want to talk about a need that’s specific to the audience you’re talking to. If your presentation is about a failing elderly-care system and you’re talking to teenagers, they might not care since it’s going to be 60 years or so before they’re ‘elderly’. So phrase it in terms of something more significant to them - point out that in as little as 10 or 15 years they might have to support their own parents financially if the system fails. Their parents might even have to move back in with them!

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