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Presenting in Class

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What you'll be able to do
  • Plan a presentation around one clear message and three main points.
  • Open strong, stay organized, and close with something memorable.
  • Make slides that help your talk instead of replacing it.
  • Plan your timing and rehearse with feedback.
  • Use your voice, eyes and body to connect with the class.
  • Handle nerves, questions and group presentations.
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One message, three points

In simple words

If you tell a friend about your weekend, you don't list every minute. You pick the best parts. A presentation is the same: one big idea, and a few great reasons or stories that support it.

Key facts
  • Write your one-sentence message first: what should the class remember tomorrow? Example: "Our city should add more bike lanes because they're safer, cheaper and better for the air."
  • Choose three main points to support it. Three is easy for you to remember and easy for listeners to follow.
  • Know your audience (your classmates and teacher) and your rubric: time limit, required content, whether slides are needed, and how marks are given.
  • Every fact you present needs a source, just like in an essay (see course 13.11). Put sources on your last slide or wherever your teacher asks.
Example (public figure, factual)

When Steve Jobs introduced the first iPhone at Macworld San Francisco on January 9, 2007, Apple presented it as three products in one: a mobile phone, a widescreen iPod and an internet communications device. One idea, three parts, easy to remember. (Mentioned as an example only; Apple is not affiliated with this course.)

Step by step
  1. Read your assignment and your rubric. Write down the time limit and whether slides are needed.
  2. Write one sentence a classmate should remember tomorrow, such as Our city should add more bike lanes because they are safer, cheaper and better for the air.
  3. Write three supporting points under it on an index card.
  4. Find a source for each fact and write it on the card.
  5. Check your message against the audience: your classmates and teacher.
  6. Check: the card has one message, three points and sources, and you have not made a slide yet.
Watch on YouTube
How to do a presentation in classHow to do Anything · YouTube · youtube.com

Videos by other creators on YouTube, for reference. They are not made by or affiliated with The Future Market.

LESSON 01One message, three points
LESSON 01 / ANIMATED LESSON / AI VOICE00:00 / 01:00
Read the video script
[Host] "Before you open PowerPoint, write one sentence: what should the class remember tomorrow?"
[Text on screen: One message. Three points.] "Then pick three points that prove it."
[Screen: Apple's 2007 iPhone press release headline] "In 2007, Apple introduced the iPhone as three products in one. One idea, three parts."
[Host] "Three points are easy for you to remember and easy for them to follow."
Try it now

For your next presentation, write your one-sentence message and three supporting points on an index card before you make a single slide.

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I'm learning "Presenting in Class" on The Future Market. Lesson 1: "One message, three points".

What the lesson teaches:
- Write your one-sentence message first: what should the class remember tomorrow? Example: "Our city should add more bike lanes because they're safer, cheaper and better for the air."
- Choose three main points to support it. Three is easy for you to remember and easy for listeners to follow.
- Know your audience (your classmates and teacher) and your rubric: time limit, required content, whether slides are needed, and how marks are given.
- Every fact you present needs a source, just like in an essay (see course 13.11). Put sources on your last slide or wherever your teacher asks.

The exercise I'm working on:
For your next presentation, write your one-sentence message and three supporting points on an index card before you make a single slide.

I'm stuck. Please:
1. Explain the main idea in plain, simple words with one everyday example.
2. Walk me through the exercise one small step at a time. Ask me what I've done so far before giving the next step.
3. Don't just give me the final answer. Help me do it myself, and check my work when I share it.
I'm a parent helping my child (about 8 years old) with a lesson called "One message, three points" from the course "Presenting in Class".

Here's what the lesson says:
If you tell a friend about your weekend, you don't list every minute. You pick the best parts. A presentation is the same: one big idea, and a few great reasons or stories that support it.

The activity:
For your next presentation, write your one-sentence message and three supporting points on an index card before you make a single slide.

Please explain this so an 8-year-old understands: short sentences, a fun everyday example, and no hard words.
Then give me 3 simple questions I can ask my child to check they understood, and a way to do the activity together, one tiny step at a time.
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My notes
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Structure: open, middle, close

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Slides that help, not hurt

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Timing and rehearsal

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Voice, eyes and body

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06

Nerves, questions and group presentations

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Final project

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Quiz

  1. What should you write before making any slides?

  2. What three parts make up a strong opening?

  3. Why shouldn't slides be full of text?

  4. What speaking rate does Microsoft say most audiences find easiest to follow?

  5. About how many words is a 3-minute talk?

  6. What is a better choice than saying "um"?

  7. Where is Speaker Coach in PowerPoint for Windows?

  8. How did Apple present the first iPhone in January 2007?

  9. What should you do when you don't know the answer to a question?

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Final exam

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Certificate

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