Illustrated Presentations

I am down do present a talk to my local history group. I have done presentations in the past but they had not been designed to fit into a specific time frame. The time allocated for talks is 45 minutes. I have read that the average adult can say approximately 183 words a minute. By my calculations, that works out at roughly 8000 words over 45 minutes.

Does anyone have any experience to know if that makes sense. Any help or advice would be appreciated

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Jacko1971 · 51-55, M

Questions are not permitted during the presentation. The whole allocation of time is available for the presentation.

I have written 90% of it which comes out about 3000 words. I thought there would be more. Once I have finished the draft copy I will have a read through. That will give me my timing.

I have a lot of slides. Probably too many. They are pretty much all single pictures of faces, paintings, buildings etc. There is nothing to complicated to get bogged down in.