1. Comment on the following statements. In your opinion are they:

1. Essential

2. Helpful

3. Unhelpful for a successful presentation?

Tell a joke at the beginning. Speak more slowly than you normally do. Smile a lot. Involve the audience. Invite questions during the presentation.

Always keep to your plan. Move around during your presentation. Use a lot of gestures to emphasize important points. Read out your presentation from a script. Stand up when giving your presentation.

2. Mind useful language

Introducing yourself:

Good morning everyone. Let me introduce myself. My name is I’m a specialist in…..

Structuring the presentation:

I’m going to divide my talk into four parts. First I’ll give you ...; after that ...; finally

Inviting questions:

If you have any questions, don’t hesitate to ask. I’ll be glad to answer any questions (at the end of my talk).

Giving background information:

I’ll give you some background information. Let’s start with the background

Changing the topic:

Right, let’s now move on to ______ O.K. I’ll now look at _____

Concluding:

To sum up… So to summarise….

Referring to visuals:

If you look at the graph…. Could I draw your attention to the chart? If you take a look at the first year, you’ll see…

Visuals:

If you look at the graph Could I draw your attention to the chart? If you take a look at the first year, you’ll see

Ending:

Thanks very much. Any questions? Well, that’s all I have to say. Thank you for listening.

(Market leader/ New edition/ David Cotton, David Falvey, Simon Kent)

3. Request and offers.

A.Complete the sentences with expressions from the box. Which phrases can be used in more than one sentence?

a.Can you ring … b.So if you’d like to … c.I’d like you to … d.Do you think you could … e.I was wondering … f.Would you mind …

_____ if you could spare me two minutes. _____ help me sort out these invoices? _____ Richard to organize coffee and biscuits for the conference? _____ organizing the collection for Melissa Bevan? _____ deal with this straightaway. _____ organize your own flight and we will reimburse you.

B. The following orders a – f are not very polite. Express each one as a polite request using the prompts in italics.

Post these letters! think

File these documents! mind

Tidy up the office! I’d like

Answer this fax! could

Book your own taxi! If you’d

Take me to the airport! wondering

C.Look at these replies. Which requests in 1 above do they answer?

1. I am rather busy. Could we meet later?

2. I could, but he doesn’t like taking orders from me.

3. Actually, I would mind. I hate asking people for money.

4. I will, just as soon as I’ve finished this.

D.Match the headings 1-7 to the expressions a-g.

Asking for clarification Contributing/ asking to interrupt Asking for contributions Summarizing Dealing with resuming after interruptions Keeping the meeting on track Clarifying

It’s an interesting point beet I’m not sure how relevant it is to our discussion. Does anyone have anything further to add? I’d just like to say that we have very little time. What does a negative outcome mean exactly? What I mean is we should wait and see what happens. Can I just finish off what I was saying? So, to recap, we all that these costs have risen too high.

E. Decide which forms in sentences a-f below are used to

Express a strong prohibition Describe general duties or obligation Say smth is unnecessary Talk about a regulation that is not always respected Say someone didn’t do smth because it wasn’t necessary

I had to wear a jacket and tie in my last job. You needn’t do that here. You’re really got to wear your ID tag. I didn’t need to do that in my old job. You’re supposed to use the pay phones. You mustn’t ever bring anyone in without senior management approval.

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