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PRESENTING IN ENGLISH:PRESENTING IN ENGLISH:HOW TO GIVE SUCCESSFUL PRESENTATIONSHOW TO GIVE SUCCESSFUL PRESENTATIONS

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Adopted from Mark Powels Book: Presenting in English, 2002Adopted from Mark Powels Book: Presenting in English, 2002

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A.A. How to Start and Make an ImmediateHow to Start and Make an Immediate

Impact on Your Audience (1)Impact on Your Audience (1)Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen.

(On behalf of, may I welcome you to)

My names

Im responsible for/Im from This afternoon Id like to

discuss

report

and present

If you have any questions youd like to ask, Ill be happyto answer them.

or

Perhaps we can leave any questions you may have untilthe end of the presentation.

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Use hooks simple techniques for gettingthe immediate attention of the audience:

(1) give them a problem to think aboutImagine Do you think thats possible?

(2) give them some amazing facts

Statistics show that (3) give them a story or personal anecdote

I remember when

A.A. How to Start and Make an ImmediateHow to Start and Make an Immediate

Impact on Your Audience (2)Impact on Your Audience (2)

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B. How to Use Visual AidsB. How to Use Visual Aids

Expressions to introduce and explain your visualsExpressions to introduce and explain your visuals

Take a look at this

Lets have a look at this

Id like you to look at this.

Here we can see .

The.. represents .. . And the . represents . . Lets look at . in more detail. As you can see,.

Id also like to draw your attention to .... .

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Write out the following sentence fragments in the

correct order to make a complete presentation extract.

1) see, its a fairly typical growth

2) Have a look at this graph. As you can

3) stages of its development. The vertical axis

4) and the horizontal

5) shows turnover in millions of dollars

6) curve for a young company in the early

7) axis represents the years 2001 to 2005

Have a look at this graph. As you can

see, its a fairly typical growthcurve for a young company in the early

stages of its development. The vertical axis

shows turnover in millions of dollars

and the horizontal

axis represents the years 2001 to 2005

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What verbs do you use to talk about the

following change and development?

increase

rise

decrease

fallshoot up

take off

plunge

slump

fluctuate recover

pick uplevel off remain steady

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C. How to Develop Your Public Speaking StyleC. How to Develop Your Public Speaking Style

to Impress and Influence Your Audience (1)to Impress and Influence Your Audience (1) Clear articulationClear articulation Pausing in the right placesPausing in the right places Pitch Control:Pitch Control:

a dramatic rise in your voice creates anticipationand suspense

a sharp fall gives weight and finality to what youhave just said.

keeping your voice up tells the audience that youare in the middle of saying something and mustnot be interrupted.

letting your voice drop lets them know you have

completed what you wanted to say

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Look at the following famous quotations.Look at the following famous quotations.

Can you guess the missing words?Can you guess the missing words? John F. Kennedy:

Ask not what your country can do for you.

Ask what you can do for your country.

PlatoWise men talk because they have something to say;

fools because they have to say something.

Abraham Lincoln:

Government of the people, by the people, for the people.

Henry Ford:

Coming together is a beginning;

keeping together is progress;

..working together is success.

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D. How to Deal with QuestionsD. How to Deal with QuestionsFour Basic Types of Questions:

1. Good questions:

Thank the people for asking them. They help you to

get your message cross to the audience better.

2. Difficult questions:

These are the ones you cant or prefer not to answer.

Say you dont know, offer to find out or ask the

questioners what they think.

3. Unnecessary questions:

You have already given this information.Point this out, answer briefly again and move on.

4. Irrelevant questions:

Try not to sound rude, but move on.

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Put the following responses into four groups:responses to good questions, difficult questions,

unnecessary questions, and irrelevant questions.

1. Good point.

2. Well, as I mentioned earlier,

3. Interesting. What do you think?

4. Im afraid I dont have that information with me.

5. To be honest, I think that raises a different issue.

Good question

Unnecessary question

Difficult question

Difficult question

Irrelevant question

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Learning PointsA.A. How to Start and Make an ImmediateHow to Start and Make an Immediate

Impact on Your AudienceImpact on Your Audience

B.B. How to Use Visual Aids to MaximumHow to Use Visual Aids to MaximumEffectEffect

C.C. How to Develop Your Public SpeakingHow to Develop Your Public Speaking

Style to Impress and Influence YourStyle to Impress and Influence Your

AudienceAudience

D.D. How to Deal with Questions from theHow to Deal with Questions from the

AudienceAudience

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Now You CANA.A. Start and Make an ImmediateStart and Make an Immediate

Impact on Your AudienceImpact on Your Audience

B.B. Use Visual Aids to MaximumUse Visual Aids to MaximumEffectEffect

C.C. Develop Your Public SpeakingDevelop Your Public Speaking

Style to Impress and InfluenceStyle to Impress and Influence

Your AudienceYour Audience

D.D. Deal with Questions from theDeal with Questions from the

AudienceAudience

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