English Presentation Skills

There might be few people who like presentations. However, presentations are necessary when we work for companies, and in fact, we will have a chance to do presentations at least in a few years. Therefore, we should learn how to succeed in presentations and master it. In this week, we learned the important points and skills of English presentations.

First, we learned the some important points of the power point’s slides. This time, I categorized them into two points which we have to be careful about when we make slides for presentations. The first point is that we should try to make slides as simple as possible and easy to look. To be concrete, we should not write too much information, should choose white backgrounds, choose font that is easy to read and make key words or key phrases stand out by changing their colors. The second point is to use figures such as tables and charts. They help audience understand the content easily. In addition to this, if it is useful to use animations and pictures, we should use them. In short, if we can make good slides, they will help us succeed in presentations.

Next, we analyzed the good and bad performances skills by watching "Ted Talks" in which there are a lot of important points that we can use for our presentation. This time, I introduced five points from. They are that a speaker should look around the audience and should not look down, should make eye contact with them, should have good posture, should gesture, and should use easy words and say key words clearly and slowly. Besides them, the most important point is to have confidence.

Finally, I am not good at presentations, but I will do my best by using these skills that we learned in this class with my friends. Also, I wish that we all can grow up gradually through this seminar.

Miho Nomura