Oral presentation ideas?

Question

i have to do an oral presentation on the stuff I learned about the gold rush. What is the best way to do it?

Answer 1

That depends on your personal strengths and weaknesses when it comes to memorization and cues. Reading a thoroughly-written paper is never a good oral presentation. What is generally recommended, for school and professional presentations, is using notecards with key words on it which will remind you of the subjects you need to talk about. This works well for me, because I can speak intelligently and at length with a single word before me. You could also write out the report, memorize it, and write key words or sentences on your notecards so that you remember the correct order and everything. Powerpoint presentations can take the place of notecards. You would have the screen up so everyone could see it and your cues would be right there. Practice, practice, practice. The better you know your material, the better you will be. You can develop a "schpiel" that is worded in such a way that it keeps your audience's attention. Also remember: people love somebody who can make them laugh. Have fun with it! Maybe do a play about the gold rush that contains all the information, or do a journal entry from someone on a wagon train. The possibilities are endless!

Answer 2

When you've gathered and organized what you intend to say, start thinking of things that will liven up the presentation, such as visual aids or relavent props.

1. Find a cheap road map of California (I'm assuming you intend to speak on the California gold rush of 1849) road map. You can get these at most gas stations and even grocery stores. Outline, or otherwise mark the main areas where you subject takes place. Put this map up, behind you before you speak. Refer to the map whenever it is appropriate.

2. Find some images, online or in books of gold miners and the equipment used at the time. Either have a print shop blow these images up to a large size and post them on the wall, or make a few sets of copies to pass around while your presentation is made.

3. Dress up in period costume of the era. "Be" a 49er gold miner. Do the presentation in "first person," as if you were recounting you own memories of events.

4. Dress up a doll or large action figure in period costume.

5. If possible, locate some actual or replical mining tools, such as gold pans or picks.

Have fun and good luck!

Answer 3

Here, use this if you like. • It's actually very simple. Since about the late 1940s people in the west have had access to domestic washing machines, some of the more profligate use tumble driers. Imagine the trillions of tons of fresh water used by these machines and compare it to the amount that would have been used by laundering using two stones or a washboard. Nobody changed their clothes every day as we do now. The wet washing is dried either by hanging out or the tumble drier. Trillion and Trillions of tons of fresh water is thus released into the atmosphere every week, it must fall as rain somewhere. Excess moisture also (as any student of hurricanes knows) changes the way winds blow and air currents circulate around the globe. • The more the wind blows, the warmer it becomes. That's the enemy. There's your problem, Mum doing the weekly wash! QED. Source(s): Been thinking about this for years since I found out that hurricanes start as a zephyr off Africa and pick up energy and hence ferocity as they pass over water

Answer 4

Read the materials.
Develop an outline which covers all the important points.
Convert each line on the outline to a note card and expand the idea into proper english.
Read the presentation to yourself. Edit & make sure you've met the time requirements.
Read it again to a classmate to get more familiar with it and to get his feedback.
Then when your presentation is due, you'll be confident & ready.

Answer 5

Exactly what Funchy said - that is an excellent answer! I want to add that you should make sure your presentation also has the following:

Introduction (tell the audience what you're going to tell them)
Body of your report (Give them the info)
Conclusion (Re-state briefly what you told them)

Don't ramble, have good eye contact and remember everyone else is just as nervous as you are - the trick is not to look nervous!

Good luck!!! Hope you get an A!!!

Answer 6

To the above (not homeless man), add props. Go the a $1 store and get a kid shovel and pan. Paint a rock gold. That kind of thing.

Answer 7

do it in story format, take a fictional charecter and have him 'live' through the major events of the gold rush.

Answer 8

Make sure you have some visuals (something you can pass around, charts, posters). Those make it more interesting, because people aren't just listening to you talk.

Answer 9

Find a crazy old homeless man and dress him up like a miner, to be extra realistic, make sure he's drunk out of his mind too!

Answer 10

I LOVE Power Point, you can get so creative.