Hello! Hello! hello everybody and welcome to learn Business English 17
My name is Steve ford and I am happy you have joined me for another lesson
Today I have one excellent question from Judy from China
studying in the United States too. So without further delay, let's listen
Hello Judy and hello China! You know I teach students everyday about how to make a good presentation in English
The first thing is to warm things up, break the ice, by giving a short introduction to your presentation
The important thing is that you want to establish a connection between you and your audience
and this is used so much not only in presentations
but also in job interviews and oral English exams
For example, well everybody as we all know springtime is here and I went for a walk today
I saw that the grass was getting greener and the birds were singing
There was a nice lady in the park feeding the birds and they were so happy; they were jumping for joy - literally
And I hope my lesson today on speech making will have you "jumping for joy"
Triggers: So you can see after my short into. talking about the weather I used a "trigger" at the end
the birds "jumping for joy". This is a great way to first get your audience concetrating on the topic you are describing
to them and then you use one of the last words or phrases from your intro.
to lead them into your topic of discussion
Using Questions as Transitions: now another great way to transition from one topic to another is to ask your audience a question
It could be rhetorical or you could ask people in your audience to raise their hands. So let's say I'm talking about phrasal verbs
duh, I'm always talking about phrasal verbs, but then I want to talk about pronunciation
I could say, "well there is a lot more I could tell you about phrasal verbs
but of course they are nothing if you can't say them properly
Now how many people in the audience have difficulty pronouncing some words in English?
let's see a raise of hands
Well, not to worry because now we are going to move on to how to pronounce tricky vowel sounds in English
So this is definitely a technique you want to try and is really an extension of a written technique of
asking rhetorical questions to engage the reader
The Voice of Authority: there are quite a few idioms and phrases you can use in both your speaking and writing to make yourself sound more convincing
So it goes without saying Judy that if you can spice up your presentation
make it more lively with some of these idioms and phrases, you will sound more confident of what you are saying
Your audience will feel it and in turn you will feel better so it's a win-win situation here
The conclusion? Now when you're writing it goes without saying you're probably going to paraphrase what you had said in your into.
That could prove to be boring by just saying, "to sum up" and then basically repeat what you'd said at the beginning of your talk
So you could say something more subtle like "to end off my presentation"
The most important thing is to bring your presentation to a climax, a crescendo!
Well everyone, I hope you enjoyed my tips on how to give a great presentation
Of course there are many more, but I tried to focus on the most important ones
so that you can be successful in your next presentation
See you in business English 18 and bye for now!
Well everyone, oh now you want to get into this thing
now you're totally white, so we gotta be careful
and this is guest number 2
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