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POWERPOINT: BE VISUAL

Slides or visual aids are precious help to enrich a presentation but they should not be a substitute

THE ADVANTAGES OF VISUAL AIDS
To attract the attention of the auditorium and to focus your message.
To visualize your ideas, your arguments and….your schemes.
MAKE YOUR

WELL PREPARED SLIDES SLIDES SYNTHETIC,
Easy to understand from afar, well spaced and elegant. ATTRACTIVE AND
Just one message per visual aid: One idea after another.
Strong title: an active verb, a motivation, or an image. LIVELY
A few key words, not sentences: it’s oral not written
Few fgures, only those that will be commented on.
Some diagrams. Diagrams have immediate impact and are easy to remember.

BE LIVELY: Never word for word
A visual aid shouldn’t be your prompt card…have a separate sheet prepared:
Essential points to underline + 1 outstanding example (3 or 4 key words)

For each slide Overhead projector Props

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Leave a pause so that the public Focus it and prepare before and Remote control: mandatory and
has time to understand it. Use N touch (French keyboards) Rod or pointer: Rarely useful,
only turn it on at the last moment
Stand near the screen, turned to- or B touch (English keyboards) to often disagreeable. Lay it down
wards the group, and speak from after using.
the side. have a dark screen
Go through the essential using
2 or 3 key words, give a lively
example,Then announce the next
slide.

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