Start and end belong to one person. The middle may switch.
Three hellos and three different sentences at the start confuse the class. Greetings eat time. Speaker’s stopwatch holds for a team too: three minutes are not three intros. Storyteller taught a hook. Here one person says it. The same person often says the end too: a question and silence. The middle, proofs, a chart — there you switch. Write the name at intro and end into a comment on the title. Click Present (F5) as a dummy run only start and stop, so you hear one voice. Who can only read a slide does not say the intro. The ban on reading holds for the captain the same. A parent’s account. No emails on a slide. Today you cross out a second hello. You leave one sentence what it is about at the start. One. Not two. A parent holds the account. No emails on a slide. Today you cross out a second hello. You leave one sentence what it is about at the start. One. Not two.
Three people said hello and each a different sentence. The class had three starts. None. Sofie hook and end, Filip proofs. The teacher hit the sentence once. The role held the mouth and the screen. After practice they crossed out a second hello and a second sentence at the start. Time came back to proofs. A parent stopwatch on the intro: Sofie made thirty seconds. Filip did not say a second hello. They crossed out a second sentence at the start and moved it into the middle. Present (F5) only the first and last slide. One voice. The class would hear one start.
Two sentences what it is about at the start? Leave one. The second into the middle, or off.
One arc, more mouths in the middle
Into a comment on the title: intro and end = one name. At middle slides authors’ names. Click Present (F5) as a dummy run only the first and last slide. One voice. Two hellos? Cross them out. Stopwatch on the intro: thirty to forty seconds. The end with a question and silence. Thanks a second. One person. You do not switch at the door out and in at once. In PowerPoint the same notes at the first and last slide. Who says the intro must not read a paragraph from the slide. The class sees the sentence. The mouth adds a hook or a scene. Handing over the word is tomorrow. Today a ban on a double start and a double thanks as the only content. The end is a sentence or a question, not a list of names. Names next time with respect. A parent’s account. Who can only read a slide does not say the intro. The ban on reading holds for the captain the same. The end is a sentence or a question, not a list of names. Names next time with respect. Handing over the word is tomorrow. Today a ban on a double start.
Wrong: three hellos, three sentences, time gone, the teacher does not know what to write down.
Right: Sofie start and end, Filip proofs, one sentence heard once at the start and again at the end.
A captain who only reads the screen is not a captain of the mouth. Speaker holds for all. Count how many people say hello. One should stay. Measure the intro. Goal under forty seconds. Check that the end says the same name as the start. Update paper of roles. One hello. One sentence at the start. The end the same name. Intro under forty seconds.
Do not let the intro be said by someone who can only read a slide. The ban on reading holds even for who has the start. The mouth adds. The slide anchors.
Four things you will build in this course
The course has four small projects. You do not have to do them all at once. Today you add only this:
🎯 A hobby in 5 slides
Five slides about something you like doing. One sentence about what it is. No paragraphs from your notebook.
Hobby: one person says what the hobby is. The other a scene in the middle.
📚 A report
Eight slides for school: a start, three proofs, an end. The title on every slide is a sentence, not “Slide 3”.
Report: hook and end one person. Chapters may switch.
📊 Survey results
A chart from a table (not a screenshot from chat) and under it where the numbers come from.
Survey: the number may be said by who did the table. The start still one voice.
⚖️ A defence
You say one sentence, show proof, answer “and what if…”. If you do not know, you say I don’t know.
Defence: two different claims at the start are two defences. A teacher wants one.
Start and stop with one voice
You write a name. You say only the start and the end. Today you hold the middle.
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A comment on the title: intro and end = one name. At middle slides names. Update paper of roles.
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Present (F5). Say only the first slide and the last. Skip the others with the space bar. Do you hear one voice? Two hellos? Cross them out.
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Stopwatch on the intro. Over forty seconds shorten. The end: a question, silence, thanks a second. In PowerPoint the same.
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When there are two sentences what it is about at the start, delete one or move it into the middle.
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Saved on Drive. There is no email on a slide. Do not put a team recording on the network.
Cross out a second hello
A greeting is not content. Content is one sentence what it is about.
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Count how many people say hello. One should stay.
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Measure the intro. Goal under forty seconds.
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Check that the end says the same name as the start.
Now you 💪
- In a comment there is one name at intro and end.
- At the start there is one sentence what it is about, not two.
- The intro fits into forty seconds.
Done when: One person says start and end. The team has it written and tried out loud.
What to take from this lesson
- One voice at start and stop.
- The middle may switch.
- Two intros eat time.
- Who reads a slide does not say the intro.
- The end is a sentence or a question, not a second hello.
- Names in the examples (Sofie, Filip) are made up. Do not put your number, email or photo on a slide.
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