Get Noticed, Get Good Marks, Get Yourself a Good Presentation with Microsoft PowerPoint

ESL students always miss this one out; a good presentation that contributes to good marks needs Microsoft PowerPoint helps. It always does not only with Learning ESL but also especially Teaching of ESL.

Recently I realized that ESL students take things too easy which can cause a big difference in their marks between what they got and what they should get at the end of a presentation. A good presentation is just another presentation without the aid of any visuals but a presentation will be a better or best presentation once students know how to utilize visuals related to their presentations and know how to use Microsoft PowerPoint. 

In example, a student that is doing a presentation on a process on a DIY project (do it yourself) should put something in the slides for example related verbs to the process or maybe some pictures on how the processes are developing and most probably some tips and tricks. This will help the audience to understand the whole process and not to get bored with the presentation too easy. And after all we are human and human tend to love visuals and colours more if to compare to only the sound of a presenter's voice and only some gestures through out the presentation.

Using the PowerPoint is one thing but really know how to use it is another thing. Most students didn't realize that they are packing too much sentences in the slides which can cause disaster. In this case students will read their slides instead of presenting and of course will affect their marks. Another thing is the choice of backgrounds and the selection of font, font size and colours. Students made a lot of mistakes related to this where they tend to use fancy fonts which may look very not professional, the size of the font which is too small and is hard to be recognized or read and also the colours of the fonts that seem to blend with the background or theme of the PowerPoint that cause difficulties for the audience to read them.