PREPARING THE ISE III TOPIC PRESENTATION

PREPARATION AND PLANNING:

4 min. presentation + 4 min. discussion

1. What is the aim (purpose, intention)?

2. Am I being discursive? Am I showing both sides of the argument, and allowing the
examiner later on to discuss my topic?

3. What are the main points I want to make?

INTRODUCTION

Give your handout to the examiner. You can keep a copy.

Give a title and introduce the subject

What exactly are you going to speak about? Situate the subject in time and place, in relation to
the audience and/or its importance. Give a rough idea or a working definition of the subject.

In my presentation, I intend to speak about...

The subject of my presentation is...
Over the next four minutes I am going to talk about …

You may also say the reasons why you chose that topic: I have chosen to speak about this
because....

Tell about your structure:

I have divided our presentation into (1, 2,3 …) parts.

In the first part I’ll give a few basic definitions.
In the next section I will explain…
In part three, I’ll show...
In the last part I would like/want to give a practical example…

BODY OF THE PRESENTATION (THE LONGEST PART OF YOUR PRESENTATION)

Make a transition between the introduction and the body.

Now let us turn to point one.

Let us now move on to the second part, which is, as I said earlier….

Quantity
How much information should you give? It’s enough to clearly develop your ideas.

Don’t forget to give examples.

Sequencing your ideas: Signposting (signalling) where you are.

If you mark clearly the points and structure of your talk as you speak, your audience will be
able to follow you better. It’s as if you were giving instructions to someone who is driving
through a road they don’t know (you must give indications).

List information (but avoid reading directly)

There are three aspects to be taken into account: one, two, and three.
A, B, C.
Now let us look at the first aspect, which is...
First of all,…
In the first place

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Link ideas, sections/making transitions

Indicate the end of one section and the beginning of the next.

That's all I would like to say about... (subject of part A) and now let us turn to ....
Now that we've seen... let us turn to…
I'll move on now to…
Turning now to…

To be clear and specific. Use examples, rephrasing, summaries etc.:

To give an example:
An example of this can be found...
To illustrate this…
Let's see this through an example.
Now let's take an example.
(give examples…), to mention but a few.
Namely, …. and …..

For example,
For instance,

To rephrase:
In other words
That is to say
What I mean to say is
My point is…

To summarise:
To summarise
To sum up,
In conclusion
In short,

To emphasise
The most important factor / aspect is…
What is really significant is...
What is important to remember...
I'd like to emphasise the fact that...
I’d like to stress the importance of...

To refer to what you have said previously:

As I have said before previously /…
To repeat what I've said already…

To refer to what you will say:

We will see this a little later on.
This will be the subject of part 3.
I will go into more detail on that later.
For now, enough for you to know that...

To refer to what an expert says:

According to...
In the words of…
Here I'd like to quote…
As Mr. X says in his book...
There is a famous quotation that goes...

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 To refer to common knowledge:

As you may know...
It is generally accepted that...
As you are probably aware,…

Rhetorical questions
What is a rhetorical question? A question that you ask without expecting it to be answered.
Why use such a question? In using such a question the speaker appears to be having a
dialogue with the listeners. It should also catch their attention.

Have you ever seen/heard/experienced...?

How can we explain this?
What does that mean?
What is the importance of…?
What are the consequences of…?

CONCLUSION

The end of a talk should never come as a surprise to an audience; it needs special
consideration.— YOU NEED TO REACH YOUR CONCLUSION!!

At the end you should briefly summarise your speech in a few lines to make sure the audience
has retained the main points. Then you should give some kind of conclusion. That is to say,
you should give a message that logically comes out of the ideas developed in your speech.

Some sentences to signpost (mark) the conclusion:

In conclusion I would like to say that...

To sum up, In my view
All things considered,
All in all,
By and large / Generally speaking, then,

I'd like to summarise/sum up

Above all when you conclude do not do it abruptly or as if surprised to get to the end of your
talk.

Thirdly, thank the audience (examiner) for listening to you / for their attention.

Finally, ask for questions and comments or invite a discussion.

Thank you very much for your attention.

I'd be happy to answer any questions you’d like to ask.

If there are any questions please feel free to ask.
If you have any questions, I’ll be more than happy to answer them.
If there are any suggestions or comments, I’d be delighted to discuss them with you.

GENERAL ADVICE
Rehearse your presentation - to yourself at first and then, if you want, in front of your friends.

Try to be clear, and use an appropriate tone of voice. The audience must hear you and
understand you.

If you feel that you’re not going to be able to finish your presentation because you’re running
out of time, try to skip some of the content in the middle—but say your conclusion.

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