hello students and welcome back to the
english danny channel
i'm teacher sarah today's video is the
fifth video in our series
presenting in english in this series you
will learn helpful presentation skills
and how to present well in english
today's topic is writing an
effective body let's get started
the body is the main part and the
longest part of our presentation
it can feel a little stressful to write
a
long section in english so today
let's talk about how to make that
process a little easier
we're going to learn how to brainstorm
and use a graphic
organizer how to determine
important information and body paragraph
writing tips
remember throughout this series we are
imagining that we have to write
and give a presentation about learning a
second language
before we write a body we have to spend
some time
thinking about what we want to talk
about
so far all i know is that i have to give
a presentation
about my experience learning a second
language
there are so many things i could talk
about
a great way to narrow it down is by
brainstorming
making a mind map and then using those
two things to organize
our body paragraphs first
i'm going to brainstorm and write a list
of what comes to mind when i think about
this topic
learning a second language
learning a second language makes me
think of
why i decided to learn a second language
the difficulty and stress of learning a
second language
toefl tests good teachers
and bad teachers i've had
traveling and using the second language
different jobs i could have because i
can speak more than one language
how long it takes to study studying with
friends
and my language goals for the future
okay there's a lot on this list and i
could add a lot
more so now i'm going to look at my list
and try to choose what i want to talk
about in my presentation
for our example let's imagine that i
have to write
three paragraphs for my body so
i'm going to try and choose three themes
that i see in my list that i'll talk
about in my body paragraphs
so let's see well i definitely want to
talk about
why i decided to learn a second language
so that'll be topic number one
hmm let's see what's next toefl tests
teachers and studying topic number two
is going to be what it's like to be an
english student and then we have
traveling jobs and goals
my third topic will be how learning
english has changed my life
as you can see i looked at my
brainstorming list
and i found themes and what i wrote
this is a great way to determine what
you
really want to talk about and write
about in your presentation
now that i've determined what topics i
want to talk about
it's time to make a mind map here
i have my main topic the topic of my
presentation
at the top my experience learning
english
below that i have my three subtopics
that i chose from making that
brainstorming list
why i decided to learn english what it's
like to be an english student
and how english has changed my life
next i'm going to add details to each
topic to help me organize and write my
body
so when we're adding details we want to
just write whatever we think about when
we're considering this topic
we don't have to write in complete
sentences and we can write as many
things as we want
this is our opportunity to
think about what we really want to talk
about and just do some brainstorming
so let's begin with why i decided to
learn english
okay when i think of that i think
for better opportunities
i love english music and movies
and all my friends were doing it
when i think of what it's like to be an
english student
i think it can be difficult and
stressful
there are some boring classes and
there's a lot of study and practice
involved and how english has changed my
life
i can travel and use english now
i've made some english-speaking friends
and i can order food in english
okay i could add as many details as i
want
to my mind map but here we have three
examples under each topic next
i need to do the step determine
important
information i have a lot of ideas here
but
i don't want my presentation to be too
long
so i'm going to look and choose what i
think
is important to talk about and what is
maybe not so important to talk about
so let's go ahead and look at our
examples and see maybe
what i can x out that i don't really
need to talk about
so why i decided to learn english let's
see
opportunities english music and movies
and
all my friends were doing it maybe
i don't want to talk about all of my
friends doing it
and i'll focus more on my motivation
what it's like to be an english student
let's see
difficult and stressful some boring
classes
a lot of study and practice well i want
my presentation to be
positive so i will not talk about my
boring classes finally
how english has changed my life i can
travel and use english
i have english speaking friends and i
can order food in english
maybe talking about ordering food in
english is not so
important so as you can see here
i just went through and looked at all of
the many things that i thought of when i
was brainstorming
and crossed out things that were not
important
okay great now that i have finished my
brainstorm
my mind map and i have chosen what i
want to talk about
it's time to really write let's talk
about some helpful tips for writing
your body paragraphs we're going to
learn
some quick tips about using transition
words
adding details and adding interest
first let's refresh our memories and
look at an
example of an effective introduction
as we can see an effective introduction
has four parts
a greeting an opener
a topic statement and a preview
the preview shows what we're going to
talk about in our presentation
it is best to keep your presentation
topics in the same
order you used in your presentation so
here i
say in my preview i'll explain how i
made the decision to learn another
language
what it was like to be a language
student and how it has changed my life
so first i'll talk about the decision to
learn another language
second what it was like to be a language
student and third
how it has changed my life
this brings us to transition words
transition words are words and phrases
used to connect
one idea to the next there are
over 200 examples of transition words in
the english language
so today let's just focus on the most
common and useful ones for a
presentation
first we have sequence transition words
sequence words are used to show the
order
things are going in or if we're talking
about time
we can say this happened first second
third and so on we can also use words
like
then next after that and
finally one common way we see
sequence transition words used in
presentations in the body section
is to start the paragraph for example
first i will talk about how i made the
decision to learn another language
next we have effect and consequence
transition words
these are words and phrases that we use
when we want to talk about
why something happened or the effect
that something had
these are terms like as a result
because of that consequently
therefore and thus for example
i learned english as a result
i made some friends who also speak
english
finally we have giving examples
transition words that we would use for
giving examples
of course if you're giving a
presentation you will give
many examples of what you're talking
about so we can use phrases like
for instance for example
in fact such as and to demonstrate
i could say learning english was very
difficult i had to study a lot
for example one night i studied
vocabulary words for three
hours so these are terms we use
to give examples about the things that
we're talking about in our presentation
next let's talk about adding details
details make a presentation relatable
and
more interesting to the audience
it's important to add details to really
bring your presentation to life
so what kind of details can we add
first we can think of wh questions like
who
what when where why and how
to expand on our ideas and help us to
really expand and flesh out what we want
to talk about
we can include backstory we can think of
what would
help our audience understand our
thoughts or why we did certain things or
why we understood certain things
and tell them a little bit about what
brought us
to that point
it's important that you do not overuse
details
we don't want to get so far away from
the main point
with too many details that the audience
loses interest
remember to just include what's
important and don't give
unnecessary details finally
let's talk about adding interest
what are some things we can add to the
body of our presentation
to make it more interesting
if you remember in the first video of
this series we learned how to write an
effective introduction
part of an introduction is an opener the
opener
is something interesting that grabs the
audience's attention
now these interesting things can be used
in our body
as well this includes things like a
quotation or proverb
a story a question a general statement
an instruction or a task and an
interesting fact or
statistic these are interesting things
that we can use to keep the audience
interested throughout our whole
presentation
okay now that we've learned how to
brainstorm
make a mind map determine important
information
and have also learned some helpful tips
for writing the body
let's go ahead and look at an example
body paragraph
together okay we are going to make an
example body paragraph
using the first sub-topic in our
mind map that we came up with why i
decided to learn english
and here we have the details we came up
with for better opportunities
and i love english music and movies
let's go ahead and look at an example
paragraph for
this subtopic
first i'd like to tell you why i decided
to learn english
we can all agree that it is a big
decision to make
right well there are many things that
help me make this choice
growing up i loved english music and
movies
when i was a kid i would listen to songs
on the radio
and longed to know what they meant
additionally
i knew that learning english could give
me better opportunities
it is my dream to own a business and i
knew that learning english would have
helped me make
better business deals and work with
business owners in different countries
i knew that english would help me be
more successful
okay let's go ahead and look a little
closer at this paragraph
as you can see there are transition
words like first
and additionally we also have some
examples from our openers
that we can use like a general question
and i also told a story about when i was
growing
up we can see a lot of
details like down here giving a back
story
it's my dream to own a business and i
knew that this would give me
better opportunities this is a great
example of a body paragraph
and i hope you use this example and the
tips in this video to make your very
best presentation
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lesson on how to write an
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