Start with an attention grabber! Ask a rhetorical question, share a story, a statistic, a headline or image related to your topic.
Maintain eye contact with your audience. Maintaining eye contact shows confidence and is much more engaging for your audience.
If you use notes, write them down in point form. Try not to look down at notes as much as possible. Remember, you are talking to your audience not reading!
Adapt to people's expressions. Do they look confused? Clarify your point and be open to questions. Do they look bored? Maybe you need to vary your tone.
Prepare an activity. Activities can be simple. For example, you could ask the class to spend 30 minutes talking to the person next to them about a question you pose, and ask students to report back on their discussion.
