Speech Preparation

Choose topic  Profile the audience, occasion, and location  Gather material  Select material  Organize material  Prepare presentation

aids  Practice  Write  Revise  Rehearse  Present  Questions and answers

Language Note

Presenting at a glance

Introduction
Great	Good morning everyone. Thank you for coming today.
Introduce yourself	My name is…(Andrew White). I’m a…(controller) for…(ABC).
State objective	As you know, today I’m going to talk about…
Outline structure	My presentation will cover 3 main points: _____ _____ _____
Timing	My talk will last about…(15 minutes).
Questions	Please interrupt at any time if you have any questions.
Link	OK. To begin I’d like to look at…
Main Body
Part one	So, the First Part of my presentation is…
Closing first part	So, that’s all I have to say on the First Point. Any questions on that?
Opening part two	OK, let’s move to the Second Section which I have called…
Sequencing	There are three questions to look at here: Firstly… Secondly….Finally…
Closing/moving on	OK, that’s everything on Part Two. I will now move to Part Three.
Highlighting	Here I would like to highlight two items.
Using a visual	As you can see on this chart…
Recommending	I would suggest…
Digressing	Could I digress for a second?
Returning	Let me now return to…
Closing	OK, that’s all I wanted to say on Part Three.
Ending
Signal end	That brings me to the end of my presentation.
Summarise	To sum up, I talked about __________ _____ _____ _____
Conclude	That concludes my presentation.
Invite questions	Do you have any questions?
Handle questions positively	That’s a good question.
Closing	I’m sorry we are out of time.
Thanking	Thank you very much for your attention.

Unit 5 Presentations: Describing Trends

I Market movements

1 Here are some common verbs (actions) that we use to describe changes in a market. Do they describe upward or downward movements? Are they regular or irregular verbs? Complete the chart.

STEM	MOVEMENT	PAST	PAST PARTICIPLE
increase		increased	increased
decrease
fall
rise
raise

2 Find the verbs in these sentences.

Prices rose sharply.

Our suppliers raised their prices sharply.

Notice how the verbs are used differently. In both sentences the prices went up. But in the first sentence they went up on their own. In the second sentence someone put them up.

Complete these sentences with the correct form of the verbs raise or rise.

1. The Chancellor has just _______ the duty on petrol.

2. The sun _______in the east and sets in the west.

3. Our share price has _______ recently.

4. She _______an important point at the meeting yesterday.

5. Bank lending rates _______ by 0.5% last month.

6. Could I _______ a question?

3 Here are some newspaper headlines. Are they good news or bad? Find verbs that indicate a movement. Is it upwards or downwards?

4 Here are some more newspaper headlines. What stories do you think they are about?

Write out all the verbs in the headlines. Can you think of verbs with the opposite meaning? For example, double -- halve

Which of these verbs can you make into a noun?

For example, to weaken (verb) -- weakness (noun)