Category: Cram Session
During finals week, I have to give a presentation in Spanish. The presentation has to be 3-5 minutes. Doe anybody have any tips on how I can make this easier>
Well did they give you a format that is used for presentations? I can help you if
you want
The best advice I can give for a presentation what ever language they're in is to be comfortable with the material you're presenting. If you prepare yourself well and manage to give yourself the feeling that you know about the material and could probably talk about it than you probably can. I think the worst thing you can do while doing a presentation is to read it from a page, even though it usually helps a lot to have notes to refer to when you need it. When you're presenting in a language that's not your first language you of course need to familiarize yourself with the vocabulary you are going to be using but that's something you have to do anyway even if it's easier in your first language.
Read it in your own language and do a great talk.
The only requirements for this presentation are, the presentation must be between 3-5 minutes long and in Spanish.
Take a topic that you are familiar with, and present it. No point presenting in spainish about the spain politics for example, or talking about Spain, when you haven't been there etc. Pick a topic that you are not afraid to talk about, and you know you can talk about in Spanish, and go with it. 3/5 minutes presentation is really, not that long at all. 30/45 seconds on introduction, 2/2.5 minutes on presentation, and another 30/45 seconds on questions and answers time.
To the last poster, thanks for the advice.