Hello students and welcome back to the English Danny channel.
i am teacher sarah today's video is the first video in our new series
presenting in english in this series you will learn helpful
presentation skills and how to present well in english
today's topic is effective introductions let's get started
what makes a good presentation this is a question we are going to be
answering throughout this series one of the most
basic parts of a good presentation is a good introduction
your introduction is the first thing your audience will hear you say
it is important to say something interesting
that will capture the attention of the audience
and will make them want to listen today we're going to talk about the four
parts of a good introduction a greeting an opener
a topic statement and a preview the first part of a good introduction is
a greeting in a greeting you should say hello and introduce
yourself to your audience let's look at two examples of a good
greeting number one hello everyone i'm sarah and i'm happy
to speak with you today
number two good afternoon my name is lisa i'm excited to be here
with you today as you can see we should say hello
give our name and connect with the audience
the second part of a good introduction is
an opener an opener is a hook that can grab the audience's attention
let's look at six common types of openers
a quotation or proverb a story a question a general statement
an instruction or task and an interesting
fact or statistic let's look at some examples of
each of these types of openers we are going to
imagine that we are giving a presentation about
learning a language number one a quotation
or a proverb a chinese proverb says to learn a language is to have one
more window from which to view the world
number two a story recently my korean friend told me that
she feels like a different person when she speaks english
this made me curious about what it is like to learn
another language
number three a question have you ever tried to learn another
language
number four a general statement i'm sure we all agree that learning
another language is not easy number five
an instruction or a task
please close your eyes now imagine you are in a foreign country
and no one speaks the same language as you
okay open your eyes number six an interesting fact or
statistic about 43 of the world's population can speak a
second language fluently these are all excellent ways to catch
the audience's attention and make them want to listen to what you
have to say after we have caught the audience's
attention we should move on to the third part of a good
introduction the third part of a good introduction
is a topic statement a topic statement tells the audience the
main subject of our presentation
it can be just one sentence that shows what topic we are going to talk about
let's look at two examples of good topic statements
number one today i want to tell you about my
experience learning a second language
number two today i'm going to share my language learning journey with you
the last part of a good introduction is a
preview in a preview we tell the audience
what details about the topic we will discuss
it is like a short map of our presentation
that shows what points we will stop at along the way
let's look at some examples of good previews number one
i'll explain how i made the decision to learn another language
what it is like to be a language student and how it has changed my life
number two i'd like to tell you 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 now that we have looked at all four
parts of a good presentation let's put it together here are two
examples of good introductions number one hello everyone
i'm sarah and i'm happy to speak with you today
a chinese proverb says to learn a language is to have
one more window from which to look at the world
today i want to tell you about my experience
learning a second language i'll explain how i made the decision to learn another
language what it was like to be a language
student and how it changed my life
number two good afternoon my name is lisa
i'm excited to be here with you today recently my korean friend told me that
she feels like a different person when she speaks english
this made me curious about what it was like to learn another language
today i'm going to share my language learning journey with you
i'd like to tell you how i made the decision to learn another language
what it was like to be a language student and how it changed my life
remember for a good introduction we need a greeting an opener a topic statement
and a preview okay students that's it for today's video on how to
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