Business Skills: Easy English Presentations (Presenting)

Your audience will judge you within the first 10 seconds. Show them that you are in control of the room with a strong, organized opening.

Choose one of three techniques to help your opening gain the audience's attention immediately.

Smoothly linking the parts of your presentation is essential to keep audience interest, and the key to sounding well-organized.

Learn expressions for involving your audience and creating rapport.

A strong finish lets the audience know that you are a competent speaker.

Follow these steps to take control of the Question and Answer session following your presentation.

Learn how to answer questions that are difficult or unrelated to your topic.

You may choose to use all formal expressions; all informal expressions; or a combination of the two. Most presenters use a combination of formal and informal expressions. This means that most presentations are "semi-formal."

Use expressions to draw the audience's focus to your visual aids.

Use expressions for describing an upward trend.

Use expressions for talking about a downward trend.

Use expressions to talk about movement that has stopped or stayed the same.

Learn how correctly use adverbs; the simple past tense; and the present perfect tense to talk about change over time.

"Chunking" your presentation into thought groups will allow the audience to more easily undertand you, and will help you to sound more ntaural.

An understanding of Sentence Stress will help you to sound more natural, and will also improve your listening ability.

Pausing at the right time is the key to getting the audience to listen to important points.

Machine Gunning is a technique you can use if you have a list of benefits or if you want to describe something using many adjectives. It's an advanced technique; however, if used correctly, it can be very effective.

The Rule of Three is practiced by the majority of great public speakers and is one of the foundations of English Rhetoric. Use the rule of three in your talk to sound more natural and interesting.

One student asks "How can an interesting presentation be delivered?" Watch for 3 key considerations.

(Closed Captioned)

This lecture introduces the Presentation Evaluation Form.

Read the form and make sure you understand it completely before moving on to the next lecture.

Use the Presentation Evaluation Form to evaluate 3 sample presentations.

This lecture will give you a basic overview of 5 key considerations of Body Language. You will also learn how to evaluate your own body language using a worksheet.

This is a quick review of the key points from the course. If you are still unclear, please post a discussion.

DO NOT go without watching this lecture! Final words of advice for presenting in English.

This is the complete presentation which you have seen in the "Expressions in Action" segments.

This is the complete script to the sample presentation. Key phrases and expressions have been highlighted.