Oral Presentation #2

Objectives of this lesson

• Create an engaging hook for your presentation
• Present it to the class (we'll see how we go with time)

What is a hook?

A hook is at the very start of your presentation and its sole aim is to grab the audience's attention.

A weak hook with no bait will not get any bites and you won't be able to reel your audience in.

If you want to captivate your audience and maintain their attention on your presentation, you need a strong hook. 

Like this (sort of):

There are many ways to hook your audience.

In the following powerpoint, they focus on 8 particular strategies.

Go through the following slides and watch the YouTube video examples of each technique.

Set Your Hook from Gavin McMahon | fassforward Consulting Group

Not all of these "hook" examples may have caught your attention. 
To make your hook effective you need to keep your audience in mind. 
What do you think would interest them?

Now you can get started.

Decide on which approach you will use. 
Note: You can integrate more than one together 

• Story (make the audience FEEL)
• Video/graphic (if it's a video make sure it's not too long. approx 30 secs and you need to accompany it with a talk)
• Belief statement
• Intriguing structure
• Humor (make us LOL)
• Rhetorical question (questions that make a point)
• Provocative statement 
• Shock/surprise :O

Plan it out and when your ready make a slide(s) to go along with it. 

We'll see how we go with time and try to get you to present this lesson. 

EAP1G

EAP4B

After each person presents, after you've graded them on the Google Form give them a scorecard on the scale of 1-10 in the comment section.
1 being *yawn* and 10 being "OMG cannot wait until holidays are over, so I can watch their presentation"