Lesson 1 How to make an academic presentation in English-A
Try to make your audience focus on your slide INSTEAD OF yourself. You should write the information you want to express in detail on the slide, so the audience can fully understand your ideas even if THEY missed your speech.
You can replace the English words which you think it is hard to pronounce using separate, short, and easy to read WORDS. You can capitalIZE the letters THAT need to be emphasized. This is a good way to improve your pronOunciations.
Try to compare your data with different sources in the same time or space scale. So your audience can understand THAT your data is big or small compared with others.
Try to explain each item on your slide sequentially. If you want to omit some, please remove them at first. The hard concepts withOUT explanationS will make THE audience feel strange.
Try to give precise annotations [an-no-TA-shions] for the references on your slide, so your audience can track them.
After finishing your slides, try to check spelling errors and grammar, SUCH AS plural forms of nounS, tenseS and the third person singular. Because you are facing some students, you should try to make your presentation perfect.
To be continued.
Lesson 2 How to make an academic presentation in English -B
After corrections on the texts, the most important thing is to practice and practice by the due day. You can read your slides aloud. And list all the words which you think it is hard to pronounce. You can go to the electronic [i-lek-TRO-nik] dictionary and copy their pronunciations into your notebook.
When you think you are familiar with the stuff of your slide. You can demonstrate it by yourself, and record your voice to your computer. You can replay the recorded voice, and listen to it carefully. Locate where you were not fluent and made stops, so that you can make more practices on these sections.
You also need to prepare a questions tank to prevent you from beating by the audience on the presentation field, which may make you embarrassed [im-BA-rost] and nervous.
Lastly, if you have an English Speaking friend or just some enthusiastic [in-THU-zi-AS-tic] guy who prefers to listen to your presentation, you can make a pre-demonstration in front of them. You can get good suggestions from them.
That‘s all, I hope the 10 tips above be helpful for any young scholars who are suffering from an English academic presentation.
Thanks!
