Effective Presentation Openings in English - Part 1

When you attend a presentation as a viewer you realize that it needs to catch your attention right from the start to make it interesting enough to carry on listening. So what we're going to look at is how to make your opening catchy.

One way to make your presentation catchy is to use a problem scenario (related to the topic) to get the audience engaged from the very first minute.

Here are some question examples that would get people participating:-

What would you do if you went to a meeting and discovered you had forgotten your notes / powerpoint presentation / laptop, etc?

How many people here this morning / afternoon / evening have had an unpleasant colleague at work? If so, how did you deal with him or her?

Suppose you had to present a product and when you had to give a demonstration, the product wouldn't work, what would you do?

Can you think of other similar examples that are relevant to your sector / speciality?
Feel free to leave them in the comments!!!