Year 7 - Presenting to an audience

True or false: Presentation software is the best tool to use for designing posters

• True

• False

Answer explanation

You can use presentation software to design a poster but desktop publishing software (like Canva) is the best tool for this. Presentation software is for creating presentations.

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Presentation

True or false: When designing presentations, it is important to use as many colours as possible

• True

• False

Answer explanation

The colours that you choose can help define your style and show your professionalism. It is important to choose one accent colour and one or two complementary colours.

Tip: The Adobe website has a great tool to help you pick colour schemes.

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Presentation

True or false: Fonts should be used sparingly in your slides.

Sparingly means in a restricted or infrequent manner; in small quantities.

• True

• False

Answer explanation

Sicking to one or two fonts keeps your presentation clear and simple to read. Using bold and font sizes allows you to adapt your headings. Lots of font styles make your presentation confusing to read.

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Presentation

True or false: Each slide needs to be filled with information to ensure that you don’t miss out anything important.

• True

• False

Answer explanation

Slides should make use of empty space and should only contain key bits of information. This is usually in the form of bullet points, lists, or short paragraphs. Lists should also be kept short.

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Presentation

True or false: It is a good idea to use a single, relevant, large image to convey a message on your slide.

• True
• False

Answer explanation

This is good practice.

A single image can say a lot more than a big chunk of text because it can speak to the audience on an emotional level.

One single picture and a question or statement works well.

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Presentation

True or false: Animations should be added to each object on the screen.

• True

• False

Answer explanation

This can waste time and distract the audience from the message.

Animations have their place, but they should be used sparingly.

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Presentation

True or false: Most people create presentations that have different colours and fonts on every slide.

• True
• False
• I don't know
• I prefer not to answer

Answer explanation

It is important to have a design theme for your presentation.

You don’t need to use a built-in template, but you should keep each slide consistent.

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Presentation

True or false: Creating a presentation for a large audience is exactly the same as creating one for someone to watch on their own.

• True
• False

Answer explanation

This is FALSE.

If you are going to be speaking alongside the presentation then you can hide a lot of the detail, because you will be saying it as you present.

If the audience is just one person reading your presentation on their computer, then they will need more detail on the screen.

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Presentation

True or false: When emphasising words, you should use bold, italic, and underline at the same time.

• True
• False

Answer explanation

This is FALSE

This makes it very difficult to read the text on the screen.

It is recommended that you just use either bold or underline.

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Presentation