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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

Pros and cons

This is a way to present both sides of a story. There are two ways you can do a pros-and-cons oral. You can do it completely fairly, and try to present both (or all if there are more than two) sides of the issue. Or you can appear to present both sides of the story but, in reality, slickly manoeuvre the audience into agreeing with the side that you support. This can be done with appropriate use of language and some subtle bias. During this sort of oral, I prefer to alternate arguments from each side, rather than presenting all of one side’s arguments and then all of the other side’s in two big chunks. This way, you get more variety and keep the presentation lively.

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