Professional English (Course 1) :

Preparing the Company Presentation

Session 1

  • How often do you give presentations?
  • Who do you usually present to? (classmates / colleagues / customers / companies / the public / a special interest group / management, etc.)
  • When was the last time you gave a presentation in English? Was it a success? How do you feel about presenting in English?
  • What is a presentation you would like to work on?
  • Think about some presentations you've attended? Was it excellent or did it feel like a waste of time? Why? What annoys you?

Order from the least to most important.

Warm-up

Speaking | Presentation guidelines

  • Which relate to preparation, and which to delivery?
  • Which are the most important of each category

Session 2 | Present Presentation Structure +Presentation Introductions

Adapting presentation for public speech:

  1. Introduce context (build interest)
  2. Introduce specific topic
  3. Introduce yourself
  4. introduce presentation structure

Improvising Introductions | Topics Covered.

  • Increase in Latinos with diabetes on migration to the USA.
  • The secret to great public speaking
  • Types of abuse and the role of social workers

Session 3 | Giving and Improvising Introductions

Grammar | Question Tags

  • The statistics speak for themselves,
    • don't they?

Session 4 | Presentation Transitions and Signposting

Academic Language | Signposting

  1. In slide 1, there's a title and name. What other information might we hear at this stage?
  2. Does slide 2 represent a positive or negative image of being physically active?
  3. Slide 3 presents reasons why people do or don't do exercicse. What other reasons could the speaker mention?
  4. Who is the presentation aimed at? What is the purpose?
    1. describe problems people have starting physical activity.
    2. describe the positive factors involved in people taking up physical activity.
    3. describe the positive and negative factors involved in people taking up physical activity
    4. describe the benefits of physical activity.

Session 5 | Conjunctions for Argumentation

R = Reset

Click on Topic

= New Topic

  • Beauty pageants objectify women.
  • People are responsible for their bad health, not fast food chains and brands like coca-cola.
  • The minimum wage should be increased.
  • Life is easy when you’re beautiful.
  • Sex education should be done at home, not in schools.
  • Working-class adults should not have children until they improve their financial situation.
  • Eat to live or live to eat?
  • PE teachers are not real teachers.

Session 6 | Presenting Visuals and Statistics

  • What kinds of tools and visuals do you usually use in your presentations (graphs, flow charts, pie charts, images, whiteboards, slide decks, technical drawings etc.)? With what objective?
  • What tips can you think of for using visuals effectively?
  • Do you find visuals helpful or distracting?

Part 2 | Presentation Visuals

Session 8 | Conclusions and Final Presentation

  • What do you usually say in the conclusion of your presentations? Do you have any good strategies for making good conclusions?
  • Do you remember a conclusion you found particularly effective? What did the presenter do?
    • Were there any parts of the conclusion that were confusing or unclear?
    • What impact did the conclusion have on your understanding of the subject?
    • Would you recommend any changes to the way the conclusion was delivered or structured?