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This document briefly describes how to write and
deliver a formal oral presentation on an
academic or professional subject. It should be useful
for anyone who wants to know how to speak in
public.
Note: by formal presentation, I dont necessarily mean a Shakespeare monologue or a scientific treatise
on robot-assisted microsurgery. Giving an oral presentation on any subjectyour favorite book, current
events, a family storycan be formal and technical whenever its primary purpose is to communicate
complex information.
The content is the most obvious component of any oral presentation after all, if you are talking, you had
better have something worthwhile to say. But a presentation is only as effective as its delivery.
Part 1: Planning the Content
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Determine your goals.

Prepare your material.
Study a model.
Arrange with your strongest points first.
Practice, practice, practice.
Part 2: Delivering the Content

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6. Make eye contact with your audience.

7. Engage actively with the audience.
8. A slide show is not a speech.
9. Watch the time!
10. Take questions in the middle, not the end?
Part 1: Planning the Content

1) Determine Your Goals as a Speaker
Why are you delivering this oral presentation?
Be honest with yourself. If your answer is for a grade or my boss told me, your audience will certainly
figure it out soon enough. What do you want to accomplish?
If this is a class assignment, look very carefully at the assignment instructions. If your instructor wants
you to analyze, dont fill time summarizing. If youll be evaluated according to how much evidence you
present, dont fill time sharing your personal opinion.
If this is a work assignment, what is at stake, and what resources are available? Are you assessing work
you did over the past year or proposing a project for next year? Are you justifying a decision you made,
or giving background information to assist a decision-maker? Who gave this presentation last time, how
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well was it received, and whats different now? (Who would know?)
How can your audience help you meet your goals?
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How can your audience help you meet your goals?

A good speaker keeps in mind the needs of the audience. Who is your audience? What does your
audience want?
Your most important auditor may be your professor or your boss, but that person will measure your
performance at least in part according to how the rest of the audience responds.
Why are the other people in the room there? They may only be there because they are on the list of
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speakers for the day, but they want to do a good job (or get a good grade). How can you latch on their
goals, in order to help you demonstrate the value of your speech?
How can you use your knowledge of what they care about to help you meet your goal? (Again, who
would know the information you need?)
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2) Prepare your material

Plan.
Good speakers usually aim to look like they are speaking effortlessly, tossing off words as they come to mind.
What you dont see is the preparation that paved the way for the polished performance. Its all an act! You can
do it too, if you plan ahead.
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Once you know what your goal is, and you know what your audience wants, you can start strategizing. There is
no single strategy that will guarantee success. How you plan depends on many variables.
How many minutes long is your speech? About how many words do you speak per minute?
Will your audience be lost if you use jargon? Will they feel talked down to if you spend time defining terms they
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already know?
Do you expect that your audience will disagree with you? (If so, you might need to give more examples and
more evidence and spend more time addressing reasonable objections in order to sound convincing, which may
mean talking a little faster.)
Do you expect your audience already agrees with the position you will take? (If so, they may check out if your
speech simply rehashes arguments they already accept without question. What can you say to an audience
that already agrees with you? Why would you listen to a speaker who is restating things you already accept as
the truth?)
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Graphics, inspirational quotations, and anecdotes are all well-respected methods of maintaining audience
interest. However, images of Dilbert and The Far Side, fancy computer transitions between slides, and
vaudeville tricks get old pretty quickly (see Don McMillans hilarious Death by Powerpoint), and they eat up
time that you could use more effectively.
Dont think about delivering a speech. Most inexperienced speakers who approach a
professional oral presentation this way end up cutting themselves off from their audience.
Whether your goal is to convince your audience to accept your position on a complex topic, to provide as
much useful information as you can to the decision-maker who needs to know it, or something else, keep
that goal in mind first. How will the words you say help you and your audience to reach some mutual goal?
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Instead, think about talking to people.TV talk show hosts dont think about talking to millions of
people at once they think of talking directly to one individual person who wants to be part of a
conversation. Make your audience feel welcome.
Remember that your audience wants your conclusions. Many, many speakers spend too much
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time on background, which forces them to rush through their final statements.
Rehearse your explanations of charts and diagrams, your demonstrations of software, or your
visits to web pages just as thoroughly as your introductory and concluding statements. When you
wing it, you will tend to eat up too much time.
Know the venue. Find out how to shut off the lights, to lower the screen, to focus the overhead
projector, etc.
Prepare for disasters. The network may crash, your monitor may start to flicker, or you may drop
your notes. These things happen. Prepare a low-tech backup overhead projections or paper
handouts, a discussion question to engage the audience, whatever.
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3) Study a Model
The internet is of course full of examples of good speeches, but the YouTube users who vote on videos may not
have much in common with the audience who will hear your oral presentation.
Do you have access to speeches that your discourse community values? Your instructor or supervisor may not
have ready access to video recordings from last years class or last quarters budget meeting, but you can pay
attention to the speaking techniques deployed by people with authority in your field.
For instance, I have a colleague who never says, This is taking too long, and Im watching the clock, so lets
get on with it already. Instead, this person says, Im conscious of everyones time, so shall we move on to the
next item?
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Bear in mind that

if you have been assigned to deliver a speech that defends a position on a topic (such as, whether
Huckleberry Finn should be taught in middle school)
but your instructor usually refrains from stating any one answer is the best (preferring instead to present
several viewpoints and letting the students decide for themselves)
then your instructors open-ended lecture (intended to spark a discussion) is not a good model of a
position statement (intended to showcase your ability to latch onto a specific solution).
While this handout aims to provide general tips, you should ignore any general tip that contradicts something
specific you learn about the goals, context, or genre of the specific speech you are preparing.
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1. Tell them what youre going to tell them.

2. Tell them.
3. Tell them what you told them.
When we read, we can go back and reread passages we skimmed over the first time, and we can skip ahead
when were bored. In a live oral presentation, the audience cant re-read or skip ahead. If the audience doesnt
know why they are listening to your anecdote about winning the spelling bee, or why they should care what
version of the software was installed on the computer that you used to crunch your numbers, their attention will
wander and it will be hard to get it back.
When we listen, we gratefully cling to orientation phrases that help us understand what the whole shape of a
speech is, where we are within the overall structure, and when we are transitioning from one section to another.
Your specific occasion for delivering a speech may involve specific contextual details that dont mesh with the
general advice Im providing here.
Introduction: "I am Pinky J. Witzowitz from the U.S. Department of Bureaucracy, and I
have been asked to speak for 20 minutes on 'The Government's Plan for Preventing
Situation X in America's Heartland.'"
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"Situation X is the worst thing that can happen to you and your family." [Startling
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"It happened once to a family in Dubuque, and they were never heard from again."
claim; follow up by citing the source of this quote, or giving evidence that supports it.]
[Anecdote; follow up with details.]
"I am here today to tell you how to prevent this terrible tragedy from striking
you." [Demonstrates relevance; move directly to your road map]
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Main Content: Put up a slide with topics to cover, a specific problem to solve, or a series of questions
to answer. Promise that your talk will address the material on that slide. You might even return to that
slide each time you start a new subsection, with the current place in the talk highlighted.
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Main Content Example B:
Situation X in Americas Heartland
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Questions/Comments from the Audience? Even though most people save the question period until
the end, they lose the opportunity to modify their conclusion to address the interests of the audience.
Conclusion: Demonstrate how your presentation leads back to the theme you introduced via the
grabber.
Recap: Our earnest Situation X speaker might give microencapsulated answers to all the questions
on the main road map: "We have learned that Situation X is a blah blah blah; that we
should all care about it because yada, yada, yada..."
Wrap it up: After reminding the audience how all these factors fit together, the speaker might
say, "Now that you understand how the U.S. Department of Bureaucracy helps you keep
Situation X out of your life, please take one of our pamphlets home to your family
and put it by the telephone where you can get it in an emergency; your family will
thank you."
Invite Questions: If there is time, and if you havent already done so.
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4) Arrange with Your Strongest Points First

Your speech is not a mystery story.
I regularly watch speakers ad-lib or chatter too much during the introduction, and just when they think its
time to get to the good stuff, they realize they are almost out of time, and they have to rush through the
material they had saved for the end.
In rare cases such as when you are facing a hostile audience, you might want to start out by
emphasizing where you agree with your audience, and then carefully working your way towards your
most divisive, most daring claims.
But usually, you should make your strongest points first. (While an online handout is not the same thing
as a speech, I tried to follow this principle by at least listing all 10 of my oral presentation tips at the top
of the page, before I went into details about any one tip.)
Introductions and background sections are boring.
Dont waste everyones time by giving us an entire lab report, or by dropping the names of all the authors
youve consulted, or by reading word-for-word what youve written on the slide.
A 15-minute speech that devotes 12 minutes to establishing that the speaker has prepared adequately
(describing experimental procedures or summarizing background readings) but only 3 minutes presenting
and analyzing original results of all this effort has missed the point.
Get to the point.
An oral presentation is not a timed essay test, in which you get points for spewing out as many details
as possible. Most people in your audience probably wont care how much your rats weighted, or what
brand oscilloscope you used, or what version of MATLAB is running on your computer.
Use the question period wisely.
When have lots of dry details, but youre not sure your audience will care about them, you can always
say I can give more details if you like, but heres the main point. If anybody really wants to know all the
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details, let them raise their hand and ask you.

If the question is actually important to your talk, youll probably be able to answer right away.
If you cant answer right away, or you dont want to take the time, just promise youll follow up via email, and then go right back to your presentation. Most audience members will probably have been
annoyed by the interruption. They will be delighted that you didnt take the questioners bait.
Give a Take-Home Message
What is the one thing you want your audience to remember? Many speakers close their talks with
a slide bearing a Take-Home Message.
Comedian Don Novellos character Fr. Guido Sarducci pitches the Five Minute University, which was
supposed to teach you everything that the average college graduate remembers, five years after
graduating. The entire economics course was supply and demand. If you can boil your whole
presentation down into one clear take-home message, your audience will have an easier time
remembering your point. (And if they remember it, they are more likely to be influenced by it.)
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5) Practice, Practice, Practice.

Set a timer, and deliver your speech to a willing co-worker or family member, your pet fish, or the bathroom
mirror.
My students are often surprised at how hard it is to fill up 3 minutes for an informal practice speech early in the
term, and how hard it is to fit everything they want to say into a 10-minute formal speech later in the term.
Once you have the right amount of content, make a video recording of yourself practicing. If you plan to show a
video clip, or ad-lib an explanation of a diagram, or load a website, or pass out paper handouts, or saw an
assistant in half, actually do it while the camera is rolling, so that you know exactly how much time it takes.
Time it out.
Script out a powerful introduction and conclusion.
Know how long each section of your speech should take.
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Decide in advance:
which example or anecdote you will cut if you are running long?
what additional example you can introduce if you need to fill time?
If you know your conclusion takes you 90 seconds to deliver, make sure to start your conclusion when you
have at least 90 seconds left.
At several key points during your speech, maybe while you are playing a video or while the audience is taking
in a complex image, glance at the clock and check to see are you on track?
If you notice youre starting Section 3 60 seconds later than you had intended, try to make up for time by
rushing through your second example in section 3 and cutting the third example in section 4, so that you still
have the full 90 seconds at the end to deliver that powerful conclusion.
Technological Considerations
Do you know how to connect your computer to the overhead projector? (If you dont know, who does?)
What will you do if you cant get your computer connected to the projector? (Back in 2003, when I
applied for my current job at Seton Hill University, I was asked to give a teaching demonstration. I
couldnt get my laptop to work with the overhead projector, but I had posted the most important links on
my blog, and I had brought along a printout of my speech, just in case. My preparations have paid off,
because I got the job.)
In the room where you will be speaking, will you be using a microphone, or relying on your
unamplified voice?
Will you be able to walk around with the microphone perhaps to gesture at details in the slides or
is the mic attached to a stand? (Do you need to borrow a laser pointer, or get a volunteer to advance
slides for you?)
Part 2: Delivering the Content

6) Make Eye Contact With Your Audience.
Go ahead and write your whole speech out so you can read
robotically if you blank out, but you should practice your speech
so you know it well enough that you can glance up from your notes
and look at your audience as you speak.
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Dont hide behind the computer monitor when you

run your PowerPoint presentation.
Dont stare down into your notes, either; your
audience isnt down there.
Position your visual aids or keyboard so that you dont
turn your back to your audience.
I once sat through a four-hour training

session, during which this was all I could
see of the instructor.
7) Engage with the audience.

Pay attention to the audience, and they will pay attention to you.
Dont try to recite from memory.
If you spend your energy worrying about what youre supposed to say next, you wont be able to pay attention
to whether the audience can hear you, or whether the overhead projections are focused.
Preparation:
Set up before the audience files into their seats. If you have scheduled a presentation for a class, dont sit in
your seat like a lump while your professor calls the roll and hands out papers. Few things are more boring than
watching a presenter log into the computer, fiddle with the video data projector, hunt around for the light
switches, etc.
Introduction:
As the audience files into their seats, have a title card displayed on the screen or at least write your name
and the title of your talk on a blackboard. In a formal setting, usually a moderator will usually introduce you, so
you wont need to repeat everything the moderator says. Avoid canned introductions like Principal Burch,
members of the faculty, and fellow students, we are gathered here today
Hashtag:
If its likely that many people in your audience use the same social media network, consider encouraging them
to post their thoughts there. When you introduce yourself, give your social media handle and suggest a
hashtag.
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Handouts:
Consider distributing handouts that present the basic facts (names, dates, timelines) and your main points.
You can keep the conclusion just slightly mysterious, if you dont want to give everything away immediately,
but the idea is to free the audience from the feeling that they have to write everything down themselves. (Note:
Simply printing up all the overhead slides wastes a lot of paper.)
Grabber:
Grab the attention of your audience with a startling fact or claim, an inspiring quotation, or a revealing
anecdote. This is not the time to try out your nightclub act; the grabber is not just comic relief, it also helps
you set up the problem that you are going to address. If the audience will be diverse and general, you can use
the grabber as a metaphor, helping the audience see why the topic is so important to you, and how it might
be important to them, too. If your audience shares your technical specialty, and thus needs no special
introduction to the topic, feel free simply to state your purpose without much to-do; but bear in mind that even
technical audiences dont want to be bored.
Road Map:
Once you have established the problem or the main point of your talk, let the audience know how you are going
to get to a solution. You might put up a series of questions on a slide, then as your talk progresses, proceed
to answer each one. You might break each question down into a series of smaller questions, and answer each
one of these in turn. Each time you finish a subsection, return to the road map, to help your audience keep
track of where you have been and where you are going.
Conclusion:
To give your presentation closure, return to the grabber, and extend it, modify it, or otherwise use it to help
drive home your main point. Recap your main points, and demonstrate how they all fit together into a thought
that the audience members can take with them.
8) A Slide Show Is Not a Speech

Dont read word-for-word with your nose buried in a stack of papers.
If you bother to show up to hear a person speak, how do you feel when the speaker mumbles through page
after page of written text? Do you feel you should have just asked for a copy of the paper in the mail?
When you present, make every effort to include your audience; after all, they are the reason you are speaking
in the first place.
If you do feel that you must write out your speech word-for-word, you should be familiar enough with it that you
dont need to look at the paper all the time. (And hold the page up when you glance at it, rather than bending
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down to look at it.)

Use uncluttered slides to aid your spoken words.
Your slides should present an abbreviated version
of the content (not just the bare framework) of your
talk.
If you begin with a slide that lists a series of topics or
questions, your audience will expect the rest of your
talk to work through that list in more detail (just as
this web page began with a list of tips, then followed
up with details about each tip.)
If each page throws up more lists, your talk will seem
random.
Larry Lessig (an ethicist, open-source culture
activist, and politician) has developed a very sparse PowerPoint style that assists his spoken voice. His
slides sometimes contain just a single word, and he times the slides so that the written words (and
occasional images) emphasize the spoken words. (See: Lessig Presentation style.)
Vague and pointless slides are alienating.

A slide that simply presents the bare structure of
your talk is pointless.
Rather than a slide labeled Introduction, ask a
question that does the introduces.
Rather than a slide labeled Case Study 1, give a
startling fact from the case study.
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Cluttered and wordy slides can be overwhelming.

People can read faster than you can speak, so dont
bore the audience by reading a slide full of text wordfor-word.
By the time you get to the end of the slide, we
will already probably be liking cat pictures on
Instagram.
Spinning and bouncing text impresses nobody (and fools nobody).

The people in your audience probably see dozens of slide shows every month. They want to
evaluate your ideas.
Proving that you can select a cool transition from a drop-down list is not going to earn you any
points or win you a contract.
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9) Watch the time!

To help pace yourself, at the top of each page of your notes, write down what time it should be; as you turn
each page, you can glance at the clock and see whether you are on track.
(The first time I gave this advice to a technical writing class, I mimed the action of looking at the clock and
noticed that I was running ten minutes behind, eating into time that I had promised to a student for an in-class
testing session. That was a rather humbling experience!)
See the preparation section above. If you have already practiced your speech and timed out the various
sections, youll know whether you are running long. If you are, dont talk faster cut something that you
already marked out as optional.
Decide in advance which examples, which anecdotes, which subsections you can drop, without damaging the
whole presentation.
I was at a conference in 1998 where the first speaker talked for 40 minutes double her allotted time. (Why
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the moderator allowed this is a mystery to me.)

None of the other speakers on the panel felt like cutting their talks to compensate.
The result was that the last scheduled speaker who had paid for an international plane ticket and a
week in a hotel did not get to speak at all.
10) Take questions in the middle, not at the end?

The benefits include:
If you spark a good Q & A session, your audience will remember and appreciate it.
If nobody has any questions, you can just fill up the space with more of your own material. That
would be much harder to do if you have already wrapped up your talk and had nothing left to say.
If you really know your material, you can adjust your conclusion to address the questions raised by
the audience. Even if someone in the audience steals a little of your thunder by bringing up points you
were saving for your big finish, you will appear smart for having predicted that audience response. At the
same time, someone in your audience will feel smart for having anticipated what you were going to say.
Dennis G. Jerz , 01/27/2009 07:24:28
Oct, 1999 first written
03 Dec, 2000 posted here
03 June 2003 tweaked and updated
30 Oct 2011 updated and added video links
31 May 2016 major update; separated into preparation and presentation sections.
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Princess Calabar
7 Dec 2011
This really helped me prepare my oral presentationthanks very much!!!!

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Lincoln
11 Feb 2012
thank you for the great tip, but my problem is actually that I have a presentation on All
About Me and I have to keep the audience engaged like by making a guessing game or
something. If anyone has any other ideas please help!!
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Dennis G. Jerz
12 Feb 2012
This may help: http://jerz.setonhill.edu/writing/creative1/showing/

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samuel
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it was quite helpful

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Jerome
18 Jan 2013
i love this helpful tips of oral presentation.. hope to visit this again or i just make a hard
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Really helpful! Thank you

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11 Dec 2013
Nice tips.i think it will help me. but its too lengthy,it takes so much of time to read.
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Laaviska (Sudha)
15 Dec 2013
Yeah! I found it quite impressive. I hope itz gonna be helpful for me to develop my speech
techniques.
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arleen
30 Jan 2014
really well writen loved how you added steps so its easy to follow clear easily can be
understaned and really helps us and gives us tips that we should actually think about and
use at times
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vishi
17 Mar 2014
I have to do a presentation about Importance of learning English. There are 6 people in

my group including myself. The presentation has to be exactly 8 minutes. We cant use
PowerPoint. Can you give us any unique, memorable and creative idea?
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Dennis G. Jerz
17 Mar 2014
What are some lessons or life experiences that you find unique and memorable? Id
probably do a play, with a character who gets into trouble because he/she doesnt know
English, and then has a chance to correct those problems by demonstrating how learning
English can fix the problems.
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michael
31 Mar 2014
Hello mr.Dennis,I go straight to it.how can I become the most sought after Master of
Ceremony(M.C.)/tv show presenter extra-ordinaire in my country before going
international?any useful tips?
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Dennis G. Jerz
31 Mar 2014
Sorry, that question is not something I cover on this page.

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18 Mar 2014
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13 May 2014
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Fahida
30 Jan 2015
wow!!this are really helpfull stuff..but im just not confident enough to stand infront of all
those people..wish i could do it without them looking at me
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Jacquelyn
10 months ago
blind fold them! just jokingIm getting ready to do mine and Im having the same problem
as you.
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thembelihle
21 Apr 2015
that is such good information and i believe im going to pass my speeches.

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22 Apr 2015
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Eboney
4 May 2015
i have a question i am supposed to give a speech but it has to have a power point or a
drama thing the only problem is that i cant have a power point because it wont work into
my speech and neither will a drama thing what should i do?
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Dennis G. Jerz
4 May 2015
I suggest you talk to whoever set up the requirement for a slideshow/drama component.
Maybe there is some flexibility, or maybe youll find a way to work that component into
your speech.
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Thanks so much will follow your instruction tomorrow where I will be having presentation
with 180 Head masters about suplimetary feeding on their hunger striken ares
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Dennis G. Jerz
1 month ago
Good luck!
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elma Williams
1 week ago
Yeah ,thanks and good luck to all of you from a powerful Jamaican girl
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