Cue card

How it is used

Used during speeches, introductions and rehearsals. Put brief prompts on it rather than a dense script that encourages reading instead of addressing the audience.

Example sentences

1. I wrote the guest's name and job title on a cue card before introducing her to the audience.

   The card protects against forgetting precise details during a short spoken introduction.

2. The presenter glanced at a cue card to remember the three questions for the product demonstration.

   The brief glance supplies prompts without replacing the live explanation with a full script.

Common collocations

• prepare a cue card
• glance at a cue card

Related terms

• deliver a presentationTo give a formal talk to an audience, often with slides, to explain information, ideas, or results.
• deckA set of presentation slides, usually prepared in PowerPoint, Keynote or Google Slides and shared as a file.

More terms: Presentations

• slide
• walk through
• Q&A
• highlight
• handout
• bullet point
• takeaway
• move on to
• to sum up
• pitch
• breakdown
• audience