what are good ways to start an oral presentation?

Question

how should i or what are some of the things that i could say to start my one minute long oral presentation. i'm doing it on this poem:

'Sonnet 30'

Love is not all: It is not meat nor drink
Nor slumber nor a roof against the rain,
Nor yet a floating spar to men that sink
and rise and sink and rise and sink again.
Love cannot fill the thickened lung with breath
Nor clean the blood, nor set the fractured bone;
Yet many a man is making friends with death
even as I speak, for lack of love alone.
It well may be that in a difficult hour,
pinned down by need and moaning for release
or nagged by want past resolution's power,
I might be driven to sell your love for peace,
Or trade the memory of this night for food.
It may well be. I do not think I would.

-- Edna St. Vincent Millay

Answer 1

Begin talking....

Answer 2

Great poem! You didn't say anything about your audience. Visuals can be fun, esp. if your audience is a group of students who aren't always interested in poetry. A big plastic hamburger might be just the bit of lightheartedness you need to get your audience to sit up and pay attention. You could then begin by asking, what is more important in life, love or food? Can we live without either? Edna St. Vincent Millay concedes that love is "not meat or drink," but says she would not "trade the memory of this night for food."

Good luck with this! Have fun.

Answer 3

the concern has to grow to be extra restricted because the time is short. commence with a question. Act as if you're counting responses. end is a summary of your 5 significant factors and your address it. Make a chart of the details. Or, write an agree/disagree communicate handbook to extra contain the kind and take in a unmarried minute. Memorize the intro and end. purely communicate over with an index card to bear in mind the 5 significant factors.

Answer 4

I think I would pause for effect. A really long pause. This will make sure
that everyone is listening. Then I would read the poem. It is powerful and
sure to make everyone think. Then I would conduct the rest of the presentation. Good Luck. you picked a good one.

Answer 5

You should introduce yourself and briefly introduce your subject matter. Visuals help as long as they are not distracting. I prefer using a power point presentation. That way you can give a copy to your teacher or professor and the class so they do not have to take notes while you are talking.

Answer 6

Smile.

Great poem- it should be easy to present.