Exercise 1. Imagine that you are to give a presentation. Do the quiz about body language and discuss your answers with a partner. More than one answer is possible.

1. What should you do when you feel nervous?

a. Hold a pen or cards in your hands.

b. Try to speak slowly and calmly.

c. Look at the screen. (not at the audience)

2. How should you express enthusiasm?

a. By establishing eye contact with each member of the

    audience.

b. By waving your arms.

c. By raising your voice and making hand or arm gestures

    during important points.

3. How should you stand?

a. Relaxed or leaning against the wall (table).

b. Straight, but relaxed with your hands by your sides.

c. Arms crossed over your chest.

d. Back turned to the audience.

4. How should you maintain eye contact with the audience?

a. Focus on a small amount of people and look at them as

   often as possible.

b. Look at your notes, the screen or the floor.

c. Spread your attention around the audience, and make

    eye contact with each person.

5. How should you emphasize something?

a. Move forward to show that something is important.

b. Use a pen or a pointer to draw attention to important

    parts of the presentation.

c. Use your finger to point out important parts of the

    presentation.

6. How should you speak?

a. Speak with the same, flat, monotonous voice throughout

    your presentation.

b. At either normal speed or slightly slower than usual.

c. Speak changing your voice in either a high or a low tone.

 

Exercise 2. Complete the list of “signposting” phrases with useful phrases from the box given below.

Let’s go back to what we were discussing earlier…

In this part of my presentation, I’d like…

Let me briefly summarize the main issues.

This brings me to the end of my second (third, etc.) point…

As I said earlier…

Let’s now turn to the next issue…

I’d like to sum up the main points.

So much for …

As I mentioned previously…

Let’s move on to the next point.

This leads us to my next point…

Let me give you a brief overview of…

 

1. Saying what is coming in the next part

______________________________

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2. Moving on to the next point

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3. Indicating the end of a section

______________________________

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4. Referring back to

______________________________

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5. Summarizing a point

______________________________

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Exercise 3. Match the two parts to make sentences.

1. This brings

2. This leads

3. Let’s now turn to 

4. As I mentioned 

5. I’d like to 

6. Let’s go back to what

7. As I said earlier 

 

a. the issue of environmental pollution.

b. come back to this question later.

c. we were discussing earlier.

d. us directly to my next question.

e. earlier, I’d like to give you a brief overview of…

f. I’ll be focusing on the advantages of the technology.

g. to the next point, which is price.

 

Exercise 4. Complete the sentences with words from the box according to the meanings.

cope with take care of identify clarify deal with

I think it’s important to ____ the problem as soon as possible.

ü to find or discover a problem

ü to make sth easier to understand

ü to solve a problem, to perform a task

ü to deal successfully with sth difficult

ü to be responsible for or to deal with a situation or task

 

Exercise 5. Complete the sentences with words from the box

regarding according to concerns apart from in connection with/concerning

1. _________ being too expensive, this model is also not new.

2. There are a few problems ____________ the quality of

teaching.

3. I’d like to mention some critical points ____________

performance capabilities.

4. Let’s now turn to the next question which ___________

monitoring and control.

5. _____ the handbook, the equipment consumes less fuel.

 

Exercise 6. Match the two parts to make sentences used to describe visuals.

1. On the next slide

2. My next slide shows

3. As you can see 

4. Let me show you some 

5. To illustrate this I’ll 

6. Let’s now have a closer look 

7. Here we can see how many 

8. I have a slide 

 

a. from this picture, the design is completely new.

b. countries are involved in the project.

c. how much the design has changed.

d. show you the results of the latest research.

e. at the figures on the next slide.

f. which shows the development of the product design through the years.

g. interesting details.

h. you will see a photo of the multi-projector.