Audience for the presentation: understand the requirement

1. Specification focus. Students must give their presentations to an audience, which must always include the teacher. The size and composition of the audience should be determined by the teacher, in discussion with the student. However, where the audience is the teacher only, the presentation and dialogue should be designed in such a way that it could have a potentially wider audience than just one person (for example, it replicates a television interview).
2. What success looks like. A successful response makes purposeful choices, supports them with relevant evidence or crafted detail, and explains how those choices meet the task.

Audience for the presentation: practical method

1. Set a clear purpose. Choose a manageable focus and decide what the audience should understand, feel or consider by the end.
2. Organise for listeners. Use a purposeful opening, signposted main points and a concise conclusion. Make relationships between ideas explicit.
3. Control spoken delivery. Use pace, pause, emphasis and Standard English appropriately. Notes should support eye contact rather than become a script.
4. Handle interaction. Listen fully, answer questions directly and elaborate with evidence or examples. Clarify a question when necessary.

Audience for the presentation: apply and improve

1. Worked application. If a listener questions the evidence, acknowledge the concern, answer it with a relevant example and explain how it affects the original claim. This shows listening as well as prepared speaking.
2. Improve through diagnosis. Name the precise weakness, such as unsupported inference, thin analysis, weak organisation or inaccurate expression, then revise that feature and compare the result.