Task 2 P2

Engaging with your audience is essential when giving a presentation, and involving them will help the audience remember the given presentation. For example you could ask a few questions throughout the presentation and ask certain members of the audience to see if they know the answer to any questions you ask, or create a small questionnaire for the audience to complete. Otherwise you just go through the presentation and leave it at the end without anything ‘fun’ throughout the whole presentation, and it wouldn't be remembered.

Altering your voice is vital when you’re approaching different age groups, but it’s also essential that you speak clearly and keep an even tone and volume so that the audience can understand what you’re saying. For example, It would be more essential to speak loudly, clearly and the tone of voice is quite upbeat to a group of year 4’s so that they can be more interested in what you’re telling them. Whereas if you used the same tone of voice to a group of college students they wouldn’t appreciate the way you’d be talking to them and they wouldn’t take in much information, and if you didn’t apply any of these bullet points then most of the audience would most likely be bored of the presentation within minutes.

Body language is the way you present yourself and communicate without having to speaking and expressing your feelings through body movements and hand gestures. If you’re giving a serious presentation, It’s better if your body posture is straight and you have an open body language so that people would be more comfortable asking questions.

Positive language can be very useful when presenting a formal and informal presentation. Formal language is better to use in presentation with older age groups whereas a more informal language while doing a presentation appeals more with younger groups.

When you’re writing to somebody you should always consider who your audience is. For example if you were texting a friend you would often use slang to say what they want quicker so that they don’t use much effort. Whereas if you were typing for business people then you would use a wider range of vocabulary to interest the person you’re getting through to. And if you were writing to an audience of kids then you could use simple words.

Summarising is an important way of ending your presentation. It’s an effective way of reviewing the whole of the presentation with the information sticking into the audiences head.